New Markets Tax Credit Conference

January 28-29, 2010
Hard Rock Hotel, San Diego, Calif.
Thursday: 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. • Friday: 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Early Bird Special! Register by December 26, 2009 and receive $50 off the registration price.


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Agenda

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Day One
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Registration and Networking Breakfast
   
9:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. Welcome and Attendee Introductions
10:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. Beltway Reflections
11:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.

Impact of and Response to the Capital Markets

  • Soft money
  • Filling financial gaps
  • Deals being done
  • Considerations made when putting deals together          
12:00 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.

Keynote Speaker Luncheon

2:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.

Tips for Closing Transactions

  • Overcoming obstacles and critical success factors
  • Managing the conflicting interest of investors, lenders and developers
  • Overcoming closing compliance issues
  • Challenges presented by multiple CDE deals
  • Beginning with the end in mind
3:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.

Formulating Success – How the HTC and the NMTC Add Up

  • Structuring alternatives of “twinning” the credits
  • Navigating the tax and compliance issues that come into play
  • Leveraging and bridging strategies
  • Exit strategies
  • Economic substance issues
4:00 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.

NMTC Compliance Requirements

  • Deal closing and periodic compliance concerns
  • What to watch out for when QALICBs go bad
  • Meeting the substantial rehabilitation threshold
  • Review of CIIS reporting requirements
  • Being prepared for the CDFI Fund site visit
5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Networking Reception
8:00 p.m. Day One Concludes

 

Friday, January 29, 2010

Day Two
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Registration and Networking Breakfast
9:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.

Municipalities and NMTCs

  • As leveraged lender
  • As sponsor of projects
  • Support for redevelopment plans
  • Support for tax increment financing
  • Support for HUD 108 loans
10:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.

Insolvent or Bankrupt QALICBs

  • Navigating the tax and compliance issues
    • Redemption
    • Substantially-all
    • Allocation agreement provisions
  • Lessons learned from deals gone bad
  • Traps for the unwary
  • Planning for the worst case
  • Restructuring vs. Foreclosure
11:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.

Back End Structuring

  • Put/call considerations
  • Strategies for devaluing the call
  • Planning opportunities to address the exit tax 
  • Structuring QLICIs to facilitate exit strategies
  • True debt concerns
  • Economic substance issues
12:00 p.m. Conference Concludes