LEGAL & COMPLIANCE
Join NAREIM's legal and compliance meeting to dive into industry best practices covering issues such as regulatory updates, investor vs. asset due diligence, conflict of interest and ESG.
Agenda
Day One: Tuesday, November 17
Covid, retention and balancing the legal, ethical and personal needs of returning employees to the office.
Returning to the office – and the strategies and policies put in place to help people return and remain remote – could prove to be the biggest tool investment managers employ in retaining their best talent. Through whole room discussion and breakout groups.
4:00pm: Welcome comments
Stina Dakers, Head of programming, NAREIM
4:15pm: Peer-to-peer conversations with live polling
Topic A: As we look ahead, what strategies are you putting into place?
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What percentage of your employees are currently fully remote, partially remote, fully back in office?
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If you were to reopen next week, how will employee feel about returning to work?
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What is your target date for having at least 50% or more of your workforce back into the office?
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What is your target date for having 100% of your workforce back into the office?
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Are you offering flexible work schedules more permanently?
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Open ended group discussion: How are you ensuring employees don't feel pressured to return to the office and undertake business travel.
Topic B: What's on your mind? Open ended group discussion
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How are you doing your job effectively?
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What are you changing about your own compliance strategies as you look ahead?
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Quick wins: From tutoring and childcare allowances to firm-wide donations of time to help working parents, what policies are managers instituting to help working parents?
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5pm: Peer networking for 45-mins: Top 10 most likely impacts of the 2020 election
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Keynote conversation on the Top 10 most likely impacts of the 2020 U.S. general election.
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What will be the most likely things on the agenda of the U.S President from January 2021? We compile a Top 10 checklist of issues that will most likely emerge from Washington DC in the coming years.
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Format: Small group breakouts, randomly rotated after 15-minutes
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Bring along your favorite drink and join other senior legal and compliance leaders to discuss Day One’s focus on retention and returning to the office
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Day two: thursday, November 19
Due diligence in a virtual world
We are in a hybrid world, neither fully remote nor fully back in the office. So how do our traditional due diligence processes and policies adapt to the new abnormal, not least when it comes to onboarding new institutional investor relationships? What are real estate investment managers successfully doing to ease the process for LPs and themselves, and what have been unexpected challenges to overcome.
4pm: Welcome comments
4:10pm: Peer-to-peer conversations
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How do you navigate traditionally in-person meetings?
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What’s the best format and structure for capital raising meetings and due diligence work?
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What are institutional investor expectations
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Format: Expert speakers and small group breakouts of no more than 5 people discussing peer experiences, with whole group feedback.
5pm: Peer networking
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Welcome comments
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Format: Small group breakouts, randomly rotated after 20-minutes
EVENT CARE PACKAGE
Please fill-in your address on our registration form to receive the event care package. This is to provide you with an all-in-one experience during the meeting.
2020 pLanning committee members
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Wendy Dodson Gallegos, Mayer Brown
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Jennifer Cattier, Neuberger Berman (Chair)
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Erin Ankin, Waterton Associates