The ACREL Files

The ACREL Files

por American College of Real Estate Lawyers

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The ACREL Files - Judy Turchin

Welcome to The ACREL Files 2024. We begin the year with ACREL Past President, Jay Epstien, interviewing Judy Turchin, a real estate lawyer with an accomplished career that should be of particular interest to ACREL Fellows. Judy’s journey (which is not over yet) started as a real estate associate at Wachtel Lipton before she joined Lehman Brothers as a Senior Vice President and Legal Officer in the real estate private equity business where she steered the company thru its bankruptcy and the Global Financial Crisis. Following Lehman, Judy joined Blackstone Real Estate, where she served as General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Administrative Officer, becoming an integral part of the firm’s leadership team. Following Blackstone, Judy pivoted to Equinox, the luxury lifestyle brand, where she served as Global Chief Operating Officer, responsible for the day-to-day operations of its 100+ clubs and 14,000 employees. In 2021, Judy founded JPT Advisors, a global advisory firm operating at the intersection of health/wellness/fitness and real estate, with a particular focus on customer experience, strategy, operations, sales and marketing. She currently serves on the Boards of several private equity sponsored companies, including Suntex Marinas, CenterWell Senior Primary Care and OVME Aesthetics, as well as New York Road Runners. Judy received a J.D. from Fordham Law School and a B.A. with honors from Rutgers University.

The ACREL Files - Roy March

Join us for the final ACREL Files podcast of 2024 when ACREL Past President Jay Epstien interviews Roy March, the chief executive officer of Eastdil Secured, the leading global real estate investment banking company. Eastdil annually transacts over $200 billion per year and has been involved in over $2.8 trillion in transactions since 2007. With more than 45 years of experience at Eastdil across financing, sales, acquisition, and capital markets activities in the US, Europe, and East Asia, Roy is among the most informed and insightful professionals regarding CRE transactional activity around the world. Roy serves on various industry, corporate and community boards, is a Trustee and member of Global Board of the Urban Land Institute, and is past Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Zell-Lurie Real Estate Center at The Wharton School. He is co-founder of March to the Top-Africa, serving the less fortunate in Africa focused on health, education and conservancy www.marchtothetop.com.

The ACREL Files - Diane Hoskins

The ACREL Files continues with an interview of Diane Hoskins, the Co-CEO of Gensler, by ACREL Past President Jay Epstien. Gensler is the leading global architecture, design, and planning firm with 53 locations and 6,000+ professionals around the world. For her innovative leadership, Diane ranks on Business Insider’s elite “Creators” list, a who’s who of the world’s 100 top creative visionaries. Her insights have appeared in the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, the Washington Post, and The Economist; and she was a featured speaker at the United Nations’ COP27 Climate Change Conference. She is on the Board of Directors of Boston Properties, is a trustee of The MIT Corporation and the current Global Chair of ULI. A registered architect, Diane graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds an MBA from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA.

The ACREL Files - David Rubenstein

The ACREL Files continues with an interview of David Rubenstein, one of the Co-Founders of Carlyle and currently its Co-Chairman of the Board, by ACREL Past President Jay Epstien. Under David’s leadership, Carlyle became one of the world’s largest and most diversified global investment firms, with $385 billion of assets under management. Carlyle is an active investor in global real estate. Prior to forming Carlyle in 1987, Mr. Rubenstein had a storied career, including practicing law at Paul Weiss in NYC and Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge in Washington, DC, time on Capitol Hill as Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments and in the White House during the Carter Administration as Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. Among many philanthropic endeavors, Mr. Rubenstein is Chairman of the Boards of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Gallery of Art, the Economic Club of Washington, and the University of Chicago. Mr. Rubenstein also serves as a Fellow of the Harvard Corporation and as Chairman of the Harvard Global Advisory Council and the Madison Council of the Library of Congress. Mr. Rubenstein is a magna cum laude graduate of Duke University, where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa, and the University of Chicago Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review.

The ACREL Files - Owen Thomas

As the Summer of 2023 comes to a close, the ACREL Files continues with Past President, Jay Epstien’s, interview of Owen Thomas, the Chairman and CEO of Boston Properties. Owen is a recognized leader in the real estate industry with more than 30 years of executive leadership, strategic planning, management and international experience, as well as substantial experience in financial and capital markets. In addition to leading Boston Properties, the largest publicly traded developer, owner, and manager of premier workplaces in the United States, for 10 years, Owen currently is a Director of Lehman Brothers Holdings and served as its first Chairman from 2012 until 2013. Prior to Lehman, Mr. Thomas was with Morgan Stanley for 24 years serving in a number of different roles, including Chief Executive Officer of Morgan Stanley Asia Ltd. Mr. Thomas also is a Director and former Global Chairman of the Urban Land Institute, a Director of the Real Estate Roundtable and a member of the Executive Board of NAREIT. He attended and is Chair of the Board of Trustees at Woodberry Forest School, received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

The ACREL Files - Sandeep Mathrani

ACREL Files continues with Jay Epstien’s interview of Sandeep Mathrani, most recently the Chief Executive Officer of WeWork. Prior to joining WeWork in 2020, Sandeep was a leader in the world of retail real estate during an extraordinary 35+ year career having served as Chief Executive Officer of Brookfield Properties' Retail Group and Vice Chairman of Brookfield Properties; Chief Executive Officer of GGP Inc.; President of Retail for Vornado Realty Trust; and Executive Vice President at Forest City Ratner. Following his 3+ years at WeWork, Sandeep joined Sycamore Partners, a private equity firm, to lead Sycamore's real estate activity. Mr. Mathrani earned a Bachelor of Engineering, a Master of Engineering and a Master of Management Science from Stevens Institute of Technology.

The ACREL Files - Len O'Donnell

ACREL Files 2.0 continues with Jay Epstien’s interview of Len O’Donnell, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Affinius Capital (formerly USAA Real Estate Company). Len oversees the company's approximately $35 billion of assets under management for the benefit of the investment portfolio and its 200+ investor clients. Prior to joining USAA Real Estate in 2011, Len was a Principal and Chief Investment Officer for Crimson Real Estate Fund, a real estate opportunity fund which specialized in value-added acquisitions and build-to-suit development. Len earned his B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Delaware. Join us to hear Len’s reflections on a 38 year career spanning real estate brokerage, development and investment that shaped his insights on the challenges facing the real estate markets today. Len’s observations on why the current state of play is very different from the Global Financial Crisis and why people should not get all of their real estate information from CNBC without understanding the underlying fundamentals, will be of great interest to our listeners.

The ACREL Files - Michael Fascitelli

During the past year, ACREL Past President Jay Epstien, has interviewed ten of the most accomplished real estate lawyers in the country who were founders and long-time members of the College. Our podcast series now pivots to a series of interviews with iconic real estate investors who have led the companies that have shaped the industry to share insights on their careers and predictions for the future. ACREL Files 2.0 begins with Michael Fascitelli, one of the most iconic real estate investors in the US. Mr. Fascitelli joined Vornado Realty Trust in 1996, where he remains a member of the Board of Trustees. During his tenure at Vornado, he served as its President and Chief Executive Officer. Since leaving Vornado in 2013, Mr. Fascitelli founded MDF Capital LLC, a private investment firm, and the Imperial Companies, a real estate investment and development company. Prior to joining Vornado, Mr. Fascitelli was a partner at Goldman Sachs, in charge of its real estate practice. Mr. Fascitelli currently serves on the Board of Directors of Invitation Homes, having been appointed Chairperson of the Board in 2021; Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of Radius Global Infrastructure, Inc., one of the largest international aggregators of rental streams underlying wireless sites; and Chairman of the Investment Committee and a Board member of Quadro Partners Inc. (formerly Cadre), a real estate technology company. In addition, he is a Board member of The Rockefeller University and the University of Rhode Island. Mr. Fascitelli is a former Commissioner of the Port Authority of NY and NJ, and a past Chairman of the Zell-Lurie Wharton Real Estate Center. Mr. Fascitelli holds an MBA, with highest distinction, from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, from the University of Rhode Island.

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The ACREL Files - Michael Rubin

The ACREL Files finishes its debut season with podcast host, Jay Epstien, interviewing Michael Rubin. Mike Rubin was elected to ACREL in 1986, served as the College’s President in 2007, and received the prestigious Frederick Lane Award in 2020. In addition, Michael is the past president of the Bar Association of the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Louisiana State Bar Association, and the Southern Conference of Bar Presidents. In addition to his full-time practice of law, he has taught finance and lending topics at law schools for decades, authored law review articles on finance and lending that have been cited as authoritative by state and federal courts and, in his free time, has written award-winning legal thrillers. Not only have his two novels won national awards, but he has also won the Burton Award for outstanding writing, an award presented at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Michael graduated from Amherst College and the Louisiana State University Law School.

The ACREL Files - Nina Matis

Nina Matis was elected to ACREL in 1988 and served on ACREL’s Board of Governors. Among her many accomplishments, Nina co-chaired the real estate practice at Katten Muchin Rosenman, and went on to serve as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of iStar Financial. She also was an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University School of Law where she taught Real Estate Transactions. Nina’s practice was heavily concentrated in all areas of commercial real estate development and acquisition, financing and partnership law. Nina graduated from Smith College and New York University of School of Law.

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