International Investments: Japan

After taking a wait-and see-attitude in 2021, Japanese cross-border investors came back to the U.S. in a big way in 2022. Businesses from the world’s third-largest economy (based on nominal gross domestic product) have a long history of being among the top overseas investors in U.S. markets, but the COVID-19 pandemic lessened their interest. That […]

Defaults and banking dangers have the office sector on edge

The office, from the mortgage lender’s perspective, is now a four-letter word. This pithy lamentation about the office sector came from Varuna Bhattacharyya, a real estate finance partner with Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner law firm in New York City. “For me, it’s that feeling of the unknown, of uncertainty. We’re not really sure if there […]