Christopher E. O’Brien

New City Corp. provides real estate merchant banking and investment management services. It offers asset and property management, and real estate-related technology applications. The firm has offices in Osaka, Seoul, Shanghai, Honolulu, Singapore. The company was founded on July 7, 2000 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan

Beachside Capital LLC (Beachside Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1986 by Michael Schreiber. The firm is headquartered in Westport, Connecticut.

Dorsey & Whitney LLP is a business law that provides legal solutions catering to the needs of business as they enter new markets, establish joint ventures overseas, and navigate international law. The company was founded in in 1912 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Starwood Capital Group is a private investment firm that focuses on real estate, energy infrastructure, and oil & gas. The private company is based in Greenwich, CT, and has a global presence of subsidiaries in several regions. The firm has 16 offices in seven countries and over 4,100 employees. Since its inception in 1991, Starwood Capital Group has raised over $55 billion of equity capital and currently has over $75 billion of assets under management. The firm invests in virtually every category of real estate on a basis, opportunistically shifting asset classes, geographies, and positions in the capital stack as it perceives risk/reward dynamics to be evolving. Starwood Capital Group also manages Starwood Property Trust, the largest commercial mortgage real estate investment trust in the US, which has successfully deployed over $63 billion of capital since inception and manages a portfolio of over $17 billion across debt and equity investments.