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Foreign Investment in in San Francisco

Ken Petrilla
Moderator

Ken Petrilla

Executive Director

California - China Office of Trade and Investment

Chris Foley

Chris Foley

Partner

Polaris Pacific

Matt Field
First and Mission

Matt Field

CIO

TMG Partners

Arthur Wang
Brooklyn Basin

Arthur Wang

President

Zarsion America

Skip Whitney
Top Advisor to Chinese Investor

Skip Whitney

Partner

Kidder Mathews

Chris Foley

Partner

Polaris Pacific

Chris Foley specializes in entitlement, financial analysis and land acquisition. Chris works with some of the largest clients in Northern and Southern California including Tishman Speyer, Lennar Urban, TMG Partners, Morgan Stanley, The Pauls Corporation, CIM Group, Trumark Urban and others. Over the past decade, Chris has brokered and consulted on land transactions involving over ten thousand condominium residences and apartments. Since 2012, Chris has brokered over $400 million for Polaris Pacific clients in the San Francisco area. Chris spends his time and expertise helping non-profit organizations such as the Homeless Prenatal Program, Sword to Plowshares, Family House and United Playez; he is also a board member at the Chinese American International School in San Francisco.

Matt Field

First and Mission

TMG Partners

Matt Field, Chief Investment Officer, has 30 years of commercial real estate experience, including development, finance, leasing and project management. Mr. Field has been with TMG Partners since 1993 and is responsible for managing acquisitions and dispositions, while supporting the firm’s development activities with lead responsibility for the real estate portfolio. Mr. Field also chairs this Investment Committee.

He has been responsible for over $3 billion of acquisitions and dispositions for TMG since 2003. Previously, he was responsible for managing complex entitlement and development projects.

Prior to TMG: Mr. Field worked at Catellus Development Corporation in corporate financial analysis and major asset acquisitions and dispostions. His prior experience also includes work at Sedway Associates and Halcyon Real Estate Advisors.

Mr. Field has a Bachelor’s degree with a major in Political Science from the University of Colorado.

Affiliations

Lambda Alpha, Member

NAIOP San Francisco Chapter, Advisory Council

Urban Land Institute, Member, IOPC Blue Council

Fisher Center Policy Advisory Board, Member

BuildOn Northern California, Board of Directors

Equity Capital Markets Outlook

Yat-Pang Au
Acquired 190MM in 2015

Yat-Pang Au

CEO

Veritas Investments

Brendan MacDonald

Brendan MacDonald

Partner

StepStone Global

Patrick Hanlon
10 Billion in Financing

Patrick Hanlon

Principal

Ackman Ziff

Brian Esquivel
Crowdfundings Future

Brian Esquivel

VP

Realty Mogul

Steve Cowan
Moderator

Steve Cowan

Managing Partner

DLA Piper

Brendan MacDonald

Partner

StepStone Global

Mr. MacDonald focuses on real estate investments.

Prior to StepStone, Mr. MacDonald was a founding partner of Clairvue Capital Partners, a real estate investment manager which integrated with StepStone to establish StepStone Real Estate. At Clairvue, he was an investment committee member and focused on sourcing, underwriting and managing investments in the U.S., Europe and Latin America. Before Clairvue, he was a Director at Liquid Realty Partners, an investment manager focused on real estate private equity secondaries and held an acquisitions role at Babcock and Brown. Earlier in his career he completed GE Capital’s Financial Management Program and was part of GE’s Global Sponsor Finance business.

Mr. MacDonald received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS from Indiana University

EB5 Update

Reid Thomas
EB 5 Update

Reid Thomas

EVP

NES Financial

Michael Homeier
EB 5 Update

Michael Homeier

Partner

Homeier & Law, P.C.

Michael Homeier

EB 5 Update

Homeier & Law, P.C.

Michael Homeier practices in the area of general business, corporate, transactional, and business financing law. With nearly 25 years' experience in the corporate and business transactional field, both as in-house corporate counsel and with private law firms, Michael's practice emphasizes the drafting, negotiation, and review of contracts, including commercial contracts, financing agreements, factoring packages, intellectual property licensing agreements, new media, technology, and commercial contracts, and entertainment industry agreements for both production houses and industry professionals. An integral part of Michael's practice includes a comprehensive ""entity practice"" involved with the formation, maintenance, and dissolution of corporations and limited liability companies, both in the for-profit and non-profit sector.

Prior to his co-founding of Homeier & Law, P.C., Michael practiced business, contract, corporate, and securities law both as in-house counsel for large public companies (including Countrywide and Herbalife) and private enterprises, and in association or as of-counsel to prominent Los Angeles law firms such as Ball Hunt Hart Brown & Baerwitz (now part of Carlsmith Ball) and Wasserman Comden & Casselman. In the past, Michael has also garnered invaluable experience on the opposite end of the ""size spectrum,"" working with a sole practitioner in a combined business and civil litigation practice assisting small- and medium-sized clients, where Michael authored and then argued two published, precedent-setting appeals cases, Matthews v. Regents of the University of California (34 Cal. App. 4th 598) concerning workplace sexual harassment, and Jenkins v. Inglewood Unified School District (34 Cal. App. 4th 1388) regarding breach of a school district employment contract.

In addition to numerous engagements as a university law professor, Michael also actively participates in public speaking engagements, both in the business financing and business law arenas, and as an inspirational speaker to teenaged and young adult cancer survivors on post-treatment life success.

Michael received his J.D. from University of Southern California and his B.A. from The University of California, Los Angeles. Michael is a member of the State Bar of California.

Summary

San Francisco's commercial real estate market is sizzling and has become one of the hottest cities in which to invest. Come join us for Bisnow's annual San Francisco Capital Markets event, where you'll hear from some of the leading commercial real estate figures in San Francisco discuss the latest trends in real estate finance. You'll hear from a panel of speakers discuss the recent explosion of foreign investors in San Francisco. You'll also hear from a panel of speakers discuss the debt and equities markets.

As Always, enjoy breakfast, networking, and plenty of schmooze time!

Venue

San Francisco Fairmont Hotel
950 Mason St
San Francisco, CA 94108

Ballroom: Terrace Ballroom (Terrace Floor - below level 1)


Valet $15 an hour

Agenda

Time Activity
7:30 AM
8:30 AM
Breakfast Networking
8:30 AM
8:40 AM
EB5 Update
8:40 AM
9:25 AM
Foreign Investment Panel
9:25 AM
10:10 AM
Equity Capital Markets Outlook