Ian Weiskopf has extensive experience with real estate private equity investments and joint ventures.  He routinely represents both real estate opportunity funds and developers/operators in structuring and negotiating complex joint venture transactions covering varied asset classes, including office, retail, residential and mixed-use properties, hotels, casinos and land development.

Mr. Weiskopf's experience also includes representing both publicly and privately held entities on a variety of corporate and securities matters including public and private mergers and acquisitions, governance, securities compliance and debt and equity offerings.  He is responsible for the preparation and review of periodic reports, registration statements, proxy materials, Forms 3, 4 and 5 and Schedules 13D/G for filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.  Mr. Weiskopf provides clients with assistance in compliance with Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Mr. Weiskopf has worked with issuers, investors and placement agents in structuring private placements under Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933 and Regulation D promulgated thereunder.  He has led negotiations and drafted documents for numerous private investments in public equity (PIPEs) of all structures including convertible debt (secured and unsecured), convertible preferred stock and common stock offerings.

Select Representations

• A real estate opportunity fund in the acquisition of 51 hotels located in 21 states through a joint venture with the then borrower/operator to purchase the defaulted mortgage loan on the portfolio and the simultaneous acquisition of title to each of the hotels through a deed-in-lieu of foreclosure process established under an existing settlement agreement
• A real estate opportunity fund in the acquisition of an office building in Irvine, California involving a joint venture with an operating partner, the modification of the existing mortgage loan and coordination with and among the seller, receiver, special servicer and mezzanine lender
• A real estate opportunity fund in the acquisition of a retail shopping center in Malibu, California involving a joint venture with an operating partner and an acquisition loan
• Acquisition by a publicly traded bookseller of a digital rights manager
• Acquisition by a publicly traded bookseller of an online book platform
• Acquisition by a publicly traded video game retailer of an online video game platform
• A publicly traded manufacturer of consumer goods packaging products in a $175 million “modified Dutch auction” issuer tender offer and purchase of common stock for an additional $72 million from its two largest stockholders pursuant to a separate stock purchase agreement entered into in connection therewith
• The purchaser of a mortgage loan secured by an office building in Auburn Hills, Michigan
• A real estate opportunity fund in a joint venture for the development of a major hotel and gaming complex in Atlantic City, New Jersey
• A real estate opportunity fund in a joint venture for the development of a 400-room hotel in Oklahoma and providing the related financing for the expansion of an adjacent gaming facility operated by a federal Indian tribe - which is now one of the largest casino complexes in the United States
• Investor in common stock private placement offering (PIPE transaction) by a clean technology company
• Issuer in convertible debt private placement offering (PIPE transaction) by a software and service provider
• Investment bank in common stock private placement offering (PIPE transaction) by an engineered lifting solutions company
• Investment bank in preferred stock private placement offering (PIPE transaction) by a marketing and technology solutions company

Bar and Court Admissions

New York, 2003

Education

Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, J.D., 2002

Cornell University, B.A., 1999