The General Counsel’s Guide to Entity Governance in Commercial Real Estate

Real estate portfolios scale faster than the legal infrastructure underneath them. Every new acquisition adds entities, jurisdictions, registered agent obligations, and reporting requirements — and the SPVs that made sense to spin up last quarter are showing up in investor diligence and lender questions you have to answer in 48 hours. For general counsel managing real estate businesses, entity governance has stopped being back-office hygiene. It is now a real driver of transaction speed, regulatory compliance, and how the business looks to institutional investors. Join us on Tuesday, July 21, 2026, at 3:00 PM ET / 12:00 PM PT as Ryan Jones, Associate General Counsel, Real Estate & Facilities at Ferguson Enterprises, Alison Friedman, Real Estate Private Equity General Counsel at JSB Capital Group, and Andy White, CEO at Filejet, walk through how legal teams managing complex real estate portfolios can maintain compliance and good standing across jurisdictions, meet institutional investor diligence and reporting requirements, and modernize entity governance with practical technology and automation. What You’ll Learn: How to manage complex entity and SPV structures as a portfolio scales — including the operational patterns that prevent entity sprawl from becoming a compliance liability How to maintain good standing and compliance across multiple jurisdictions without losing visibility, missing filings, or paying avoidable penalties How to meet the increasing diligence, reporting, and audit-trail expectations of institutional investors and lenders How to navigate evolving regulatory obligations, including beneficial ownership reporting, state-level filings, and entity-level disclosure rules How to modernize legal operations with technology and automation so entity governance scales with the portfolio instead of breaking under it Who Should Attend: This program is designed for general counsel, associate general counsel, deputy general counsel, legal operations leaders, and members of corporate legal teams in real estate, REITs, private equity portfolios, and other entity-heavy industries. It will be especially useful for legal and ops professionals responsible for entity governance, SPV management, multi-jurisdictional compliance, investor reporting, or evaluating technology to modernize legal operations. There is NO COST to attend this program! This program is FREE, thanks to our gracious sponsor, Filejet! If you can’t make it to the live program, the recording will be available for viewing via our paid CLE library- In-House Connect On-Demand.