In recent years, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted supply chains across various industries, causing a shortage of goods and services. Global macroeconomic factors have created challenges for companies at every level of the supply chain and have forced companies to examine and reinvent both their...
The success of nearly every business is dependent on its supply chain. Whether it’s a neighborhood restaurant securing fresh produce from a local farmers market in time for tonight’s menu or a high-tech manufacturer procuring microchips from Asia ordered months in advance, a business will quickly...
It is widely understood within the construction industry that a contractor’s inability to meet its project delivery schedule is a major driver of disruption to a contractor’s operations and a common source of financial distress. While there are many common causes of project delays that contractors...
While keeping up with the global financial markets over the past two years, it has been seemingly unavoidable to hear the words “supply chain,” “inflation,” or “Federal Reserve.” It has been an interesting time—one where the annual U.S. Consumer Price Index accelerated from a COVID-19-induced low...
The efficiency and reliability of the world’s supply chains have been a source of increased concern for many businesses since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Global lockdowns caused immediate and considerable sourcing and logistics problems for nearly all industries, as manufacturing and...
Headlines decrying San Francisco’s recovery as among the worst in the nation aren’t hard to find. Retail and hotels being abandoned. A landmark office building sold at 74% of its early 2020 valuation. CRE defaults and impending maturity dates raising alarm. Regional bank failures lead to...
During times of financial tightening and uncertainty, real estate owners and occupiers often need to broaden their traditional sources of financing to create liquidity and stay afloat. Over the course of the past year, there has been persistent talk of an impending recession in the U.S. Various...
As any commercial landlord who has been through a tenant’s bankruptcy is aware, the tenant must accomplish three things to assume and assign a real property lease under Bankruptcy Code Section 365: Cure all monetary and nonmonetary defaults capable of being cured. Provide adequate assurance of...
Commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) issuance peaked in 2007, at $230 billion, and was a source of high-proceeds, competitive-rate financing for commercial real estate and multifamily. Following the Great Recession, the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, and the 2012 economic recovery, the CMBS...
As the commercial real estate (CRE) industry grapples with the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is seeing property values decrease while facing significant challenges that include rising interest rates and $1.5 trillion in debt maturities over the next four years. A combination of factors is...
