CHICAGO – Oct. 23, 2015 – Shareholder Sean Bezark from the Chicago office of the international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP spoke Oct. 20, 2015 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA in connection with the 2015 National Association of Real Estate Investment Managers (NAREIM) Architectural & Engineering Meetings. Bezark’s presentation was entitled “Environmental Risk on Equity Acquisitions, Vapor Intrusion and Interior Building Application Risks.”
MIT was incorporated by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts April 10, 1861; MIT’s mission is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century by generating, disseminating, and preserving knowledge, and working with others to bring this knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges.
NAREIM provides members the opportunity to refine strategy, improve operations, and provoke new thinking through meetings, surveys, and thought leadership activities. Topics for this year’s summit feature key dynamics within the real estate industry including: the state of the market; investment, environmental, operational, and governmental risk; optimizing platforms to meet market and regulatory demands; and new technology approaches and opportunities.
Bezark is a member of Greenberg Traurig’s Real Estate and Environmental practices and focuses his practice primarily on environmental matters for public corporations, privately held companies, banks, lenders, REITs, energy companies, and private equity investment funds. He advises clients on environmental aspects of corporate and real estate transactions, bankruptcy cases, environmental investigations and remediation projects, brownfields development, insurance procurement, and risk and cost allocations.