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California: Southern

5 Years Ranked

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Provided by Sanford C Presant

USA

Practice Areas

Real Estate Funds

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)

Tax

Tax & Business Group

Corporate

Real Estate

Real Estate Tax

Real Estate Finance

Opportunity Zone Funds

Career

Sanford C. Presant, Co-Chair of the firm's Global Real Estate Fund Practice, focuses his practice on providing fund and joint venture best practice business and tax structuring advice to sponsors of the leading real estate private equity funds, qualified opportunity zone (QOZ) funds, REITs, and their local partners and investors in the U.S. and internationally.

Sandy has more than 30 years of experience as a tax and business lawyer for major funds and real estate companies. He has structured and negotiated the tax and business aspects for leading industry QOZ funds, over 100 real estate funds (including their internal general partner structuring and executive compensation) in the U.S., Europe, Latin America and Asia, and more than 500 joint ventures (partnerships and LLCs), including QOZ subsidiary JVs (QOZBs), as both a corporate and tax attorney. Sandy was the National Co Chair - Real Estate Fund Services at Ernst & Young from 2000 - 2005 and was Chair of DLA Piper’s Real Estate Fund Practice. Sandy is a prior Chair, American Bar Association Partnership Tax Committee, and is a member of the NAREIT Government Relations Committee and the Tax Policy Advisory Committee (TPAC) of the Real Estate Roundtable.

Sandy served as National Chairman of the American Bar Association's Committee on Partnership Taxation, is a member of the ABA Task Force on Debt Restructurings and Bankruptcy, and chaired the ABA Task Forces on Publicly Traded Partnerships and Partnership Tax Allocation Rulings. He is on the Tax Policy Steering Committee of the State Bar of California, on the advisory board for California CEB's Advanced Tax Planning for Real Estate Transactions, on the Board of Advisors of the Loyola Law School Tax LL.M. Program, and is a member of the Advisory Board for CCH's Journal of Passthrough Entities. He has been a regular guest commentator on the PBS program The Nightly Business Report and was a presenter at the 1993 California Economic Summit. For 15 years, Sandy was an adjunct professor at New York University's Real Estate Institute. He speaks annually at a number of the principal tax conferences throughout the country.

Sandy was a program director of the 2003 NAREIT Law and Accounting Conference. He currently is a Co-Chair (and founder) of PLI's Annual Real Estate Tax Forum in New York. He is the co-author of the two-volume treatise Tax Aspects of Real Estate Investments. In 2007, he was named a California Super Lawyer, as the result of a joint research project by Law & Politics and Los Angeles magazines. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America.

Sandy has substantial experience in structuring funds and joint ventures to minimize UBTI, including the use of blocker structures reducing the withholding and tax for cross border investors and tax-exempts, public and private REITs, hotel net lease structures that minimize leakage, and fractions rule compliant structures.

Concentrations:

Real estate funds

Qualified opportunity zone funds (QOZs and QOZBs)

Joint ventures

General partner executive compensation

REITs

Workouts and tax exempt investors (UBTI)

Debt restructuring

Professional Memberships

Member, American Bar Association Task Force on Section 108: Bankruptcy and Workouts, 1991-Present

Member, NAREIT’s Small Business/Passthrough Entities Tax Task Force

Member, Tax Policy Advisory Committee (TPAC) of the Real Estate Roundtable

Cabinet Member, Real Estate and Construction Division of the Jewish Federation, 2010

Affiliated Member of Madison Who's Who, 2010

Program Director, NAREIT Law and Accounting Conference, 2003

Chairman, American Bar Association Tax Section Task Force on Publicly Traded Partnerships, 1995-2000

Chairman, American Bar Association, Committee on Partnership Taxation, 1992-1994

Advisory Board, Advanced Tax Planning for Real Estate, CEB, 1993

Chairman, American Bar Association Task Force on Tax Allocations, 1988-1990

Chairman, American Bar Association Tax Section Subcommittee on Partnership Tax Allocations, 1986-1990

Chairman, American Bar Association Tax Section Subcommittee on Partnership Audit Procedures, 1984-1986

Member, ABA Task Force on President’s Tax Proposals to Congress, 1985

Member, Options Task Force, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 1976-1978

Board of Advisors, Loyola Law School, Tax LL.M. Program

Member, Century City Bar Association

Member, Pension Real Estate Association

Publications

Team Member, Chambers & Partners USA Real Estate Law Firm of the Year, 2013, 2017-2018, and 2022.

Listed, Chambers USA Guide, 2011-2022.

Personal

LL.M., Taxation, Georgetown University Law Center, 1981

J.D., cum laude, State University of New York at Buffalo Law School, 1976

B.A., Cornell University, 1973

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