CRE Finance Council Europe, the trade association dedicated to promoting the strength and liquidity of commercial real estate finance, is hosting a best practice property finance seminar in two weeks to discuss recent industry publications centring on real estate finance tax, loan documentation and standardisation.
The Thursday 12 July seminar – in association with the Loan Market Association (LMA) – is offered on a complimentary basis, will be hosted at Allen & Overy’s One Bishops Square offices, from 8am, at which the content and implication of three recent industry documents will be debated:
• The CREFC Europe and Ernst & Young Real Estate Lending Tax Guide, intended to assist market participants in developing an understanding of the multiple tax issues a Lender should consider when undertaking a transaction;
• The CREFC Europe Commercial Real Estate Lending Principles, which offers a layout of key principles to be considered and issues to be addressed when advancing secured investment loans; and
• The LMA Commercial Real Estate Finance (REF) Document; which delivers a standardised loan agreement for use in commercial real estate investment transactions.
The seminar will provide an overview of the goals and relevance of these documents and enable those involved in their development to address questions from Seminar attendees. Seminar presenters will be:
• Mark O’Neill, partner, Allen & Overy.
• Richard Johnston, senior tax manager, Ernst & Young;
• Clare Dawson, managing director, Loan Market Association; and
• Peter Denton, head of European debt, Starwood Capital Europe;
CREFC Europe and the LMA recently delivered three key industry documents to the marketplace:
Christian Janssen, co-head of lending for Renshaw Bay and chairman of CRE Finance Council, said: “The introduction of these documents to the marketplace has been a collaborative milestone for CREFC Europe.
“Each of them reflects the desire of our industry constituents to create a more transparent, liquid and solid CRE finance market. To that end, we wish to highlight the outstanding collaboration with Ernst & Young and LMA in creating these products. We encourage market participants to take advantage of our upcoming Seminar and learn more about how these initiatives will improve and strengthen the European CRE finance market.”
This event is CPD accredited.
For more information or to register for the Seminar, please contact Hannah Liebing, CRE Finance Council Europe, at +44 (0) 20.7073.2815 or by email at hliebing@eu.crefc.org
CREFC Europe’s Autumn Conference 2012 will be co-chaired by Allen & Overy’s Christian Lambie, Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Mark Nichol, and K&L Gates’ Andrew Petersen.
The annual two-day conference will be hosted by Allen & Overy over 14 and 15 of November.
The co-chairs are in the process of developing the conference programme, if you would like to be considered as a speaker please contact Carol Wilkie.
Sponsorship for our Autumn Conference is NOW available, if you would like to sponsor please contact CREFC Europe soon as possible to avoid disappointment, please contact Carol Wilkie on +44 (0)20 7073 2771.
Registration is NOW open. Contact Hannah Liebing for further information.
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