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Current Trends in Real Estate Transactions: Strategic Transaction Planning to Maximize Your Investment
When: November 12, 2015 7:00AM - November 12, 2015 9:30AM
Current Trends in Real Estate Transactions:
Strategic Transaction Planning to Maximize Your Investment
Tax planning and transaction structure are crucial to success in real estate ownership. Proper and timely transaction planning will maximize your investment in real estate. Please join Schneider Downs and Real Estate Tax Planning Expert Richard Lipton at our event, Current Trends in Real Estate Transactions. Mr. Lipton will discuss the following:
- Minimizing tax on disposals/dispositions
- Disguised sale considerations
- Foreign investment in U.S real estate
- IRC Code Section 1031/Like-kind exchange strategies
About Our Speaker
Mr. Lipton is a Partner in Baker & McKenzie's Chicago office and has handled numerous engagements for clients in structuring partnership and real estate transactions, and has provided legal advice relating to tax planning for corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies. He is the head of Baker & McKenzie's Pass-Throughs Group and provides counsel on real estate investment trusts and investment in real estate by tax-exempt organizations and foreign investors. Mr. Lipton is a nationally recognized speaker on complex real estate transactions and is a regular contributor to numerous real estate and taxation periodicals. He is the past Chair of the ABA Tax Section and the American College of Tax Counsel, and an adjunct professor at the University of Chicago Law School.
Schedule
7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. - Registration, breakfast and networking
8:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. - Seminar
9:15 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. - Q&A with Mr. Lipton
1.5 tax CPE credits will be available for attendance.
Download Thursday's presentation, 
"Current Trends in Real Estate Transactions: Strategic Transaction Planning to Maximize Your Investment" presented by Dick Lipton of Baker & McKenzie