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Spring 2008

B8158-001: Real Estate Transactions

T - Full Term, 02:15PM to 05:30PM

Instructor: lynne sagalyn

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This course presents an introduction to legal concepts applicable to commercial real estate transactions, paired with issues of business strategy. It covers analysis of legal risks, rights and remedies, and structuring and documentation of major types of asset transactions: acquisitions, dispositions, space leases, ground leases and financings, including commercial mortgage-backed security offerings. Regulatory issues and transaction structures for development are also covered, as well as complex private equity JVs and M&A transactions. Students learn from actual transaction documents the key issues necessary for successful negotiations and closings.

Lynne Sagalyn

Lynne Sagalyn

Earle W. Kazis and Benjamin Schore Professor of Real Estate

Professor Sagalyn is a specialist in real estate finance and urban development. She teaches the Real Estate Transactions and the Advanced Seminar in Real Estate electives. Sagalyn is widely known as an expert in real estate equity securities and public development finance. Her research and writings on real estate investment, securitization, urban development and public policy have been published in both academic and professional journals. Her most recently completed book is Times Square Roulette: Remaking the City Icon, an analysis of the politics, policy and economics of one of the city’s largest and longest redevelopment initiatives. She is also author of Cases in Real Estate Finance and Investment Strategy and is coauthor of Downtown, Inc.: How America Rebuilds Cities. Sagalyn serves on a number of boards, including UDR (NYSE:UDR), Capital Trust (NYSE:CT), and a family real estate concern and has consulted for many public agencies and private firms.

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