WB Perspectives | Podcast Series Warshaw Burstein

Felicia Ennis, Partner in the Employment law group, discusses the elements of a post-pandemic Back to Work Plan for businesses in this podcast.

Kimberly C. Lau, Warshaw Burstein, LLP Partner, and Chair of the Title IX/College Discipline Practice addresses the important steps students need to take when they arrive on campus and when they engage in sexual activities. Listen to this podcast if you are a parent sending your child off to college or a student about to go to college or perhaps, already in college. As a result of listening to this podcast, you will gain a clear understanding of how to navigate sexual misconduct on college campuses.

Warshaw Burstein real estate finance partner Mike Zukerman discusses Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Programs. These programs are an innovative and increasingly popular mechanism for financing energy efficiency and renewable energy improvements in both commercial and residential real estate developments. PACE programs allow a property owner to finance these up front improvements and pay the cost back over time through a voluntary assessment. The number of states and municipalities that have enacted these programs is growing.

Warshaw Burstein partner Marshall Lester discusses his work as a teacher of international corporate law at programs in countries in the former Soviet Union. In this podcast he gives perspectives on the differences between American and overseas students, discusses their interest in U.S. law and offers insights into the fascinating regions in which he has taught. Over the past five years he has taught courses at law schools in Riga, Latvia; Vilnius, Lithuania; Kaliningrad, Russia; Yerevan, Armenia and this past year in Moscow. He is scheduled to teach in Tartu, Estonia this fall. Mr. Lester has taught at these schools in association with the Center for International Legal Studies, www.cils.org, located in Salzburg, Austria.

Warshaw Burstein partner Meryl Wiener examines the newly announced SEC Examination Priorities for 2019. She outlines what SEC registered entities, from established broker-dealers to newly-formed investment advisers to hedge funds, should consider in dealing with a routine examination by the SEC. Meryl notes that due to manpower and cost constraints, the SEC Office of Compliance Inspection and Examinations (OCIE) only is able to examine a small fraction of entities that are subject to SEC rules and regulations. Every year OCIE announces a list of priorities that it will consider in choosing which entities to examine and that will determine the scope of the examinations. This year’s list includes a new priority, digital assets, which includes cryptocurrencies, coins and tokens, as the number of digital asset market participants has grown rapidly.

Warshaw Burstein partner Barry Klingman and of counsel Mike Zukerman discuss foreign investing in New York real estate. Mike outlines the ways foreign investors are getting into the market and which countries are leading the way. Barry discusses the unique structure of investments by foreign buyers, the special U.S. estate tax considerations that foreign investors face, and a special structure that Warshaw Burstein employs for some clients to reduce estate tax liability. They address the issue of whether foreign investors pay more than U.S. investors for the same assets, and a recent development - the qualified opportunity zone program -- that allows deferral and reduction of capital gains liability. Finally, they weigh in on how long the New York real estate boom can last.