When and where

Wednesday October 19, 2016 – 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM Eastern (+30 minute Bonus session from 3:30 – 4 PM Eastern)

and Thursday October 20, 2016 – 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM Eastern

Online Only (participants are able to ask questions in real time via chat or audio link)

“Without a doubt, one of the best webinars ever”

Richard Byers, CFO, Zapolski Real Estate

Overview

In 2 sessions lasting 2 hours each, participants learn interactively about advanced techniques and topics related to joint venture partnerships and investment waterfall modeling for up to 3 equity players in a single transaction. Participants follow along in Excel in real time and perform exercises to ensure they are grasping the lesson and are mastering the technical skills being taught.  Participants are able to ask their questions in real time to have them answered by the Instructor on a rolling basis. This webinar also serves as preparation for REFM Excel For Real Estate Level 3 Certification.

Full description

Applicable real estate property types: all income-producing and all unit-sales based

In this 4-hour session, you will learn about how to model equity joint venture partnerships for individual property transactions, both developments and acquisitions. “Dollars in” (capital contributions) and “dollars out” (partitioned levered cash flows) to all equity players will be studied in detail.

Topics covered include:

• rationale behind targeting disproportionate returns to the sponsor
• how to achieve disproportionate returns through fees and cash flow partitioning
• preferred return overview
• preferred return variations with respect to priority of payment
• preferred return in context (Payment types A, B and C)
• nature of preferred return (Non-compounded and compounded, non-cumulative and cumulative)
• waterfall distribution overview
• promote (carried interest) mechanism overview and modeling
• look-back internal rate of return (IRR) method
• 3-Tier waterfall modeling
• double-promote, 5-tier waterfall modeling
• alternate compounding periods: monthly, daily, quarterly
• sample partnership structures.

Who should attend

Intermediate and advanced-level professionals and students.

Course materials provided for you to keep

• REFM’s Level 3 Self-Study products, a $179.00 value!
• PDF slide presentation
• Unlocked Excel file with working waterfalls that can be used for your own analyses

Instructor

Bruce Kirsch

Mr. Kirsch is the founder and principal of REFM, and is an Editor of the Third Edition of the top real estate finance textbook, Wharton Professor Peter Linneman’s Real Estate Finance and Investments: Risks and Opportunities.  Mr. Kirsch instructed on real estate finance and financial modeling for three years as Adjunct Faculty at Georgetown University.  A highly-acclaimed trainer, Mr. Kirsch previously worked in commercial brokerage and real estate investment in New York and Washington, DC. Mr. Kirsch holds an MBA in Real Estate from The Wharton School and a BA in Communication from Stanford University.

Technical specifications

Online attendance uses the GoToMeeting platform. If you intend to participate using your computer speakers (instead of calling into the conference call bridge), please test your speakers before the Webinar so that you are sure they will work.