American Conference Institute's Premier Forum on Developing and Leasing Medical Office Buildings, Lab & Healthcare Facilities

Foley Partners Michael Blau and Steve Burr are participating in a session called “Joint Ventures: How to Successfully Collaborate and Finance” at the American Conference Institute’s Premier Forum on Developing and Leasing Medical Office Buildings, Lab & Healthcare Facilities. The conference will take place from March 29-30, 2007 at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel.

The session will focus on:

• Pros and cons of partnerships between healthcare institutions, physicians, and developers
  
  
  
  • loss of tax-exempt status
  
  
• Selecting the right developer
  
• Negotiating with for-profit developers and financiers
  
  
  
  • securing competitive financing
    
  • what lenders look for
  
  
• Who will own the land?
  
  
  
  • joint ownership
  
  
• Flash in the pan? A look at medical condos and other creative real estate ownership options
  
• Confidentiality issues in the negotiation and selection process
  
• Measuring risks for both sides
  
• Meeting long and short-term goals and objectives of the parties
  
• Negotiating key ground lease issues
  
  
  
  • approval requirements for subleases
    
  • embedding control provisions
    
  • restricting certain types of practices such as family planning: How broad can the restrictions be?
    
  • building list of preferred physicians into the ground lease
    
  • can space be used for non-medical purposes?
    
  • controlling leasing to restaurants in medical buildings