Structuring Programmatic Real Estate Joint Ventures: Structures, Deal Sharing and Exclusivity, Pooling Variations
Negotiating Key Deal Terms From Sponsor and Equity Investor Perspectives

Course Details
- smart_display Format
On-Demand
- signal_cellular_alt Difficulty Level
- work Practice Area
Real Property - Finance
- event Date
Thursday, November 19, 2020
- schedule Time
1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT
- timer Program Length
90 minutes
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This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.
This CLE course will discuss programmatic real estate joint ventures (JVs) and how they differ from traditional, single investment JV relationships, alternative structures for programmatic JVs, and key JV agreement terms to consider and negotiate. The program will present these issues in an interactive format from the perspectives of counsel for the developer/operator and counsel for the capital investor.
Faculty

Mr. Guggenheim is an accomplished commercial real estate attorney who focuses his practice on traditional real estate matters, such as acquisitions, dispositions, and financings. His practice also encompasses complex investment structuring involving joint ventures, preferred equity, participations, syndications, co-investments, parallel vehicles, private REITs, and discretionary funds. In addition to his practice, Mr. Guggenheim serves as a lecturer in law at USC’s Gould School of Law, where he teaches the real estate joint ventures course and regularly guest lectures for the real estate transactions and finance course. He also frequently speaks about commercial real estate topics in webinars and at conferences and contributes articles to real estate and legal publications.


Mr. Soejoto’s practice focuses on commercial real estate joint ventures, funds and other partnerships and strategic relationships. He has extensive experience handling the federal income tax aspects of real estate transactions and real estate–related investments. Mr. Soejoto represents private equity and hedge funds, real estate investment trusts (REITs), private and institutional investors, and owners and developers of commercial real estate properties. He also advises clients on California real property and documentary transfer tax issues.
Description
Programmatic real estate JVs can provide economic and competitive advantages for both sponsors and equity investors. Developers and operators seek reliable sources of capital to deploy quickly, while equity investors look for sustainable partnerships with experienced and reputable sponsors. Programmatic or platform real estate JVs allow the parties to invest as part of a master program instead of deal-by-deal transactions and thus maximize efficiencies in time, capital deployment, management, and expenses.
Terms unique to programmatic JVs include investment parameters, deal sharing and exclusivity, discretion, and termination of the relationship. One of the critical issues that the parties must negotiate is the pooling of economics, namely how returns will be distributed and promote paid to the sponsor, on a deal-by-deal and/or portfolio basis.
Listen as our authoritative panel of real estate practitioners walks you through current market trends concerning programmatic real estate JVs. The panel will discuss alternate structures for programmatic JVs and key JV agreement terms in an interactive format from the perspective of sponsor counsel and capital investor counsel.
Outline
- Programmatic JV structures
- Deal sharing and exclusivity
- The pooling of economics, distribution of returns, payment of promote and clawback provisions
- Governance issues
- Financing guaranties and related issues
- Default remedies and removal rights
- Deadlocks, lockouts, and exit provisions
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- What are the typical structures used in programmatic JVs for real estate investment?
- How can the parties bridge the gap between disparate objectives with respect to deal sharing and exclusivity?
- How do the issues shift with respect to single vs. pooled investment and the corresponding distribution and clawback of promotes?
- How do competing expectations of operators and capital investors regarding governance issues, guaranties, and exit rights typically get resolved in various structures?
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