Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law: RP REAL ESTATE FINANCING GROUP

RP REAL ESTATE FINANCING GROUP


RP REAL ESTATE FINANCING GROUP
Who We Are The Real Estate Financing Group is devoted to assisting attorneys in financing techniques involving real estate as collateral. To this end, this group presents educational programs and produces written materials to educate lawyers in all aspects of real estate finance. Separate committees within this group are dedicated to mortgage lending, construction lending, securitizations and legal opinions issued in connection with these financings, as well as legal issues and developments in real estate workouts, foreclosures and bankruptcies.

Committees in this Group

Mortgage Lending

Securitization and Special Financing Techniques

Construction Lending

Workouts, Foreclosures and Bankruptcies

Legal Opinions in Real Estate Transactions

Programs, Meetings and Events

Committee Events

RPTE Spring Symposium, Philadelphia
May 6, 2010 - May 7, 2010

The Real Estate Financing Group will present three programs at the Spring Symposium. One program will be on MERS and will include among its speakers Chris Peterson, who spoke at the REFG teleconference on this subject on November 11 Another program will co-sponsored with the ABA's Business Law Section and will address consolidation of separate entities in bankruptcies and receiverships in light of the General Growth and Sunwest cases. The third program will be on new opinion requirements for multi-family loans. More details to follow.

Conference call on MERS on November 9, 2009

On Monday, November 9, the Real Estate Financing Group held a telephone conference on the subject of the Mortgage Electronic Recording System, or MERS.
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Conference call on insurance on November 11, 2009

The Real Estate Financing Group and the Real Estate Transactions Group held a joint telephone conference on the status of certificates of insurance on November 11, 2009.
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General Growth bankruptcy opinion regarding SPEs

A bankruptcy court has allowed a parent company to use cash from its subsidiaries in the parent's bankruptcy, despite separateness covenants and special purpose entity provisions in the subsidiaries' loan agreements. UPDATE: Bankruptcy court issues opinion August 11
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