The way we regulate rarely works terribly well for the regulator or the regulated.  Yet, we keep doing it the same way…a subspecies of insanity to be sure.  

As an example, has anyone out there in CRE land taken a gander…

As many of you, perhaps most of you know, I retired from Dechert LLP at the end of June .  As Monty Python once said, “I’m not dead yet.”  I will continue to be an active participant in our industry through my…

I really don’t want to talk about ESG.  (Actually, I do but pretend I don’t to bolster my well-earned reputation for balance…Hah!).  ESG is so politically fraught…one person’s lodestar is another shibboleth.  Tribal totem of the left and right!  You get on the wrong…

If it really didn’t matter, all this electioneering drama would be good fun, wouldn’t it?  Throw in some sex and a car chase and this would work on Netflix!  Regrettably, in the real world, it is less than entirely amiable.  

It is…

Last year, I wrote a commentary entitled Contagion.  That commentary was inspired by the early days of the meltdown of the crypto currency market (long before SBF made the whole space way more notorious with a whiff of polymorphous titillation and the…

Why am I still shocked that bad news gets no respect these days?  No, I’m serious.  It seems it doesn’t really matter when business, political or economic news stinks up the joint.  The gestalt teases out a good news narrative.  

Just think about…

As I’m no longer compelled to talk my book (in fact, I actually don’t have a book), I can now talk critically about legal opinions.  Not to bury the lede, but I am of the view that much of our transactional…