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Aug 19, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Jonathan Cantor
As the commercial property market gets back to business following the summer lull, many eyes are turned towards the intentions of private equity (PE). While PE fundraising globally was challenging in 2023, fundraising in Europe was relatively successful with a near-record €120bn raised last year – much of it earmarked for property deals – an upward trend that continued in Q1 2024.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Jonathan Cantor |Guy Norfolk
The last few weeks have seen some significant REIT mergers/takeovers in the UK – LXi with London Metric; Tritax with UK Commercial Property REIT; Custodian Property Income REIT with Abrdn Property Income Trust; and Barratt Developments agreeing a £2.5 billion deal to acquire fellow housebuilder Redrow. What is behind the sudden uptick in M&A activity? Mergers between listed property companies are not a new occurrence.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Jonathan Cantor
Control is one of the key concepts to consider when entering into any joint venture (JV). In any shared ownership scenario, for any investor there will be the views and rights of at least one other party to consider. Most investors would, given the choice, prefer to be the dominant partner i.e. the one making the decisions.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Jonathan Cantor
The government is consulting on the transparency of land ownership when trusts are involved in the ownership structure. The consultation, which closes on 21 February 2024, seeks views on improving transparency of land ownership involving trusts. It seeks specific views on options to widen access to trust information held on the Register of Overseas Entities (ROE), a list of the true owners of offshore companies that own UK land.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Jonathan Cantor
Not for the first time in recent years, the real estate funds world is at a crossroads. The sector has encountered various challenges in the past twelve months: fund raising remains difficult, especially for first time managers.
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Oct 16, 2023 | 
rand.org | Ryan K McBain |Jonathan Cantor |Nicole K. Eberhart
The US is confronting an urgent and worsening shortage of psychiatric beds. For example, in Massachusetts, hundreds of patients have been wait-listed for acute inpatient psychiatric beds. In California, well over a thousand individuals deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial have been housed in county jails, awaiting placement at psychiatric facilities. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated this dynamic, creating an epidemic within the broader pandemic.
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Sep 18, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Jonathan Cantor
Joint ventures have long been seen as a popular strategy for investment in real estate development across all sectors, with the sharing of risk and access to fresh ideas being just a couple of many potential upsides. Below are five key considerations for the parties to these combinations:1.
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Jul 14, 2023 | 
rand.org | Stephanie Brooks |Samantha Matthews |Jonathan Cantor |Stephanie Brooks Holliday
988, a national mental health emergency hotline number, went live throughout the United States in July 2022. 988 connects callers to the 988 Crisis & Suicide Lifeline, previously known as the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. The transition to the three-digit number aimed to respond to a growing national mental health crisis and to expand access to crisis care. We examined preparedness throughout the U.S. for the transition to 988.
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Jun 14, 2023 | 
rand.org | Jonathan Cantor
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Jun 5, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Jonathan Cantor |Guy Norfolk
In the past five years, there has been a clear trend towards the use of continuation funds. They offer an exit route for some and the ability to remain invested in high-performing assets for others. They accounted for 50% of the US$126 billion secondary market volumes in 2021 and, as long as GPs want to hold assets rather than buy new ones, it is expected that their popularity will continue.
