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Marcus & Millichap

Founded in 1971, Marcus & Millichap is a leading commercial real estate brokerage firm focusing exclusively on investment sales, financing, research, and advisory services, with more than 1,700 investment professionals in offices throughout the United States and Canada. The firm has perfected a powerful property marketing system that integrates broker specialization by property type and market area; comprehensive investment research; a long-standing culture of information sharing; relationships with the largest pool of qualified investors; and state-of-the-art technology matching buyers and sellers. In 2016, the firm closed 8,995 transactions with a sales volume of approximately $42.3 billion.

Lead Sponsor

Xfinity

XFINITY Communities provides properties and residents with a better network, better entertainment, and better service. With fiber-based custom network solutions, a one-of-a-kind interactive TV experience with XFINITY X1, and our new dedicated property support, we provide an advanced and complete service that translates to better living.

Sponsors

Aggressive Energy

Aggressive Energy is a full-service energy solution in the area and we’re committed to providing you with the most competitive energy prices in the city. We offer complete heating solutions for co-ops, condos, and owner-managed properties, including energy supply, mechanical services and immediate care that will make you feel completely comfortable with your personalized energy solution.

Aggressive Energy will keep striving to provide the best service and cost as we pave our region’s future in energy with new, more efficient technologies.

We’ll keep you in your comfort zone.

Ascent

Ascent Multifamily Accounting is a full service outsourcing firm that focuses exclusively on the apartment industry. We are fully versed in all aspects of the most popular property management systems, including RealPage, Yardi, Resman and Entrata among others.

Ascent is staffed with CPAs and experienced property accountants. We offer every client a Controller/Senior Accountant with whom they interface. Ascent Multifamily Accounting is the largest outsourced provider of Accounting Services in the multifamily industry.

BKV

BKV Group is dedicated to working with clients to responsibly and effectively build civic buildings that speak to the heart of the community. We are experts in the process of creating public projects and knowledgeable in the public contracting process and mechanisms that ensure that a community will realize its project within budget. BKV Group understands successful public design extends beyond the building’s walls and into the broader context of community. Our team is dedicated to working with our clients to responsibly and effectively build and enhance buildings and interiors that speak to the needs and function of the user and create better working environments.

BMO

Firms like yours need a banking partner with extensive products and services, a strong capital base and the ability to fund your needs through economic cycles. BMO Harris Bank’s real estate finance experts are your trusted advisors, helping developers, REITs, private equity funds and institutionally sponsored firms achieve their goals. To learn more about how we can help, visit BMO Harris Bank.

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Engineered Tax Services (ETS) is a nationally licensed engineering firm with extensive experience in engineering-based specialty tax services yielding substantial tax incentives for companies of all sizes. ETS is one of the only qualified engineering firms with its own Professional Engineers, LEED Accredited Professionals, Certified Public Accountants, and Licensed Contractors on staff. ETS provides a full range of specialty tax incentives for real estate professionals including Cost Segregation, 263(a) Repairs vs. Capitalization, Disposition Studies, 179D EPAct, 45L, Utility Rebates and Refunds, Energy Audits, Modeling, and LEED Certifications. ETS averages over $44 million per month in refunds for clients, equating to hundreds of studies nationally. ETS is committed to providing the highest level of service and attention to detail in order to realize maximum benefits and ensure compliance of IRS guidelines. For more information, please contact us Engineered Tax Services at 800-236-6519 or visit www.engineeredtaxservices.com.

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G5 is the leading data-driven marketing company in the property management sector. Our clients achieve exceptional results while marketing with confidence through our partnership. The G5 Marketing Cloud delivers new customers at the lowest cost through tailored lead generation strategies, website designs that convert, and analytics that empower—all on one platform. More than 7,000 properties throughout the US and Canada leverage the power of the G5 Marketing Cloud to increase occupancy and NOI.

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A critical factor in any real-estate transaction is the creation of trust. We understand the importance of that element. In fact, we’ve built our company upon it, from our processes to our people.

Insurent Agency Corporation is a closely held company based in New York City. The Insurent® Lease Rental Bond Policy and The Insurent® Lease Residual Value Policy are underwritten and issued by Argonaut Insurance Company, a property and casualty insurance company licensed in New York and other states. Argonaut Insurance Company is rated A (Excellent) by A.M. Best, and is located at 225 West Washington, 6th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606. Insurent Agency Corporation is the exclusive licensed general agent of Argonaut Insurance Company (a subsidiary of Argo Group US.., NASDAQ Ticker Symbol: AGII ) for the Insurent® Lease Guaranty Program.


Shareholders of Insurent Agency’s parent company include institutional investors in the real estate, private equity and insurance fields, and its management team includes individuals experienced in insurance, real estate, credit and corporate finance. The company’s senior insurance professionals include individuals who were founders and senior officers of Enhance Financial Services Group, Inc., an NYSE-listed U.S. financial guaranty insurance company that was acquired by Radian Group, Inc. in 2001.

Kastle Systems

What makes Kastle exceptional is our focus on security as a managed service. It’s all we do, and all we’ve ever done. We have built our company on the belief that the most effective approach is a complete one: because we engineer, install, monitor, and maintain your system, we are invested in its end-to-end performance. We recognize that technology alone does not secure employees and assets. It’s Kastle’s reliable people and processes combined with our advanced technology that ensures complete protection. Innovative outsourced security services significantly reduce costs and improve the critically important, 24×7 performance of security systems for building owners, developers, and tenants.

Katerra

Katerra is bringing fresh minds and tools to the world of construction. With our unique approach and capabilities, Katerra’s renovations team delivers better, faster, cheaper multifamily renovation projects. Katerra offers a full range of interior and exterior renovation services for all multifamily and commercial properties.

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For more than 100 years, Kirkland has provided exceptional service to clients around the world in complex litigation, corporate and tax, intellectual property, restructuring and counseling matters. The groundwork has been established for another century of superior legal work and client service. Kirkland’s principal goals are to provide the highest quality legal services available anywhere; to be an instrumental part of each client’s success; and to recruit, retain and advance the brightest legal talent. Our Firm seeks long-term, partnering relationships with clients, to the end of providing the best total solution to the client’s legal needs.

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Neal Gerber Eisenberg, is a leading law firm dedicated to handling sophisticated matters for entrepreneurs, public companies, and private businesses and their owners. Our attorneys provide legal business solutions to public and private entities of all types—including Fortune 100 companies, financial institutions, nonprofits and high net worth individuals—in connection with domestic and global business transactions and litigation. The firm has built over thirty years of trusted partnerships with clients that span the globe, and we meet each unique client need with the same personalized service and collaboration that provide the most practical solutions for every matter.

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Our ability to facilitate projects across the nation is supported by a team of professionals with offices in Chicago, Scottsdale, and Detroit. Our years of on-the-job experience, combined with a commitment to bringing a service-oriented approach to every project, ensures the highest level of work standards and customer satisfaction. From ground-up construction to complete renovations, our work experience covers a vast spectrum of industries – providing a deeper understanding of every client’s unique construction needs.

PGIM

PGIM Real Estate Finance, the commercial mortgage business of PGIM, the trillion-dollar global investment management business of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU), is an international full-service, commercial and multifamily mortgage finance business with more than $88 billion in assets under management and administration as of Dec. 31, 2016. Leveraging a 140-year history of real estate finance, the company offers one of the most comprehensive lines of real estate finance products and originates loans for Fannie Mae DUS®, Freddie Mac and specialized affordable housing programs; FHA; Conduit; Prudential’s general account; and other institutional investors. For more information, please visit http://www.pgimref.com.

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Since 1939, Symmons Industries has been a premier manufacturer of commercial and residential plumbing products, producing a variety of durable, reliable and beautifully designed products for everything from private homes to five-star hotels. Built on a 75+-year foundation of quality craftsmanship, Symmons places a premium on exceptional service. Beginning with the Temptrol® pressure-balancing, anti-scald shower valve, Symmons has always known it’s what’s inside that matters most. Today, we continue to innovate with custom fittings that create distinctive design solutions for commercial projects through Symmons Design Studio. It’s an inner strength and outward focus that makes Symmons the smart choice. Built to last, designed to stand out, and backed by a customer-first culture.

Headquartered in Braintree, MA, Symmons is a privately held company with regional sales offices and local representatives located throughout the United States, Canada and Asia. For more information, please visit symmons.com or call 1-800-SYMMONS.

Wipfli


With more than 1,900 associates, 49 offices in the United States and two offices in India, Wipfli ranks among the top 20 accounting and business consulting firms in the nation. For over 88 years, Wipfli has provided private and publicly held companies with industry-focused assurance, accounting, tax and consulting services to help clients overcome their business challenges today and plan for tomorrow. Our construction and real estate practice serves over 8,000 clients, with almost three-quarters of those clients positioned within the real estate marketplace as developers, investors, owners, and operators. Real estate companies choose to conduct business with Wipfli’s CRE industry specialists because we consistently keep them safe and remove barriers to growth while truly understanding the dynamics of their industry.

Contact us today to discuss how you can get involved with the Marcus & Millichap Multifamily Forum: Chicago by calling Amber Collins at (646) 783-3937 or emailing her at amber@greenpearlevents.com.