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Eric Brecher is an attorney and holds the designation of Certified Exchange Specialist (one of approximately 125 in the country.) He is Executive Vice President of Wintrust Financial Corporation's 1031 Exchange Service - Chicago Deferred Exchange Company. For over 17 years, Mr. Brecher has served as QI working with attorneys, accountants and real estate professionals in connection with thousands of transactions.

Michael J. Romer, Esq. is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Romer Debbas, LLP. Michael represents a broad range of clients in connection with the acquisition, sale, lease, development and/or financing of commercial land residential properties. Such clients include both domestic and foreign individuals buying for residential or investment purposes as well as institutional and private equity clients. Michael is also counsel to a wide majority of lending institutions in the country that are focused on real estate finance. He is a frequent contributor to local and national media including New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Real Deal and Nasdaq TV. In addition, Michael frequently lectures in NYC's major real estate brokerage firms.

Michael C. Xylas is a partner in the Real Estate and Banking Practices Group of Abrams Garfinkel Margolis Bergson, LLP. Mr. Xylas has extensive transactional real estate experience representing individuals and entities with residential and commercial acquisitions and sales and the related financing of real estate properties. His banking experience includes overseeing mortgage settlement representation for major retail lenders and wholesale mortgage bankers, and he has also represented a number of major lenders in New York involving mixed-use commercial properties and with construction loan settlements.