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November 19th, 2025 | 2 PM - 3:30 PM CST
The Fort Worth Club, 12th Floor Trinity Room, 306 W 7th St, Fort Worth, TX 76102
Comped parking in the building.
Free to attend.
Opportunity Zones & Banking:
Emerging Opportunities
A professional gathering and panel offering insights on capital flow relevant to regional banking and professionals in service of capital.
Featured Panelists
Brad Molotsky
Partner
Duane Morris LLP
Brad A. Molotsky practices in the area of real estate law. He serves as a lead for the Duane Morris Project Development/P3 group and as co-head of the firm's Opportunity Zones group. Mr. Molotsky’s primary practice is focused in the areas of opportunity zone fund creation and fund deployment, financing, public private partnership (PPP or P-3), real estate joint ventures (including mixed-use, life sciences and multi-family development), commercial leasing (including a focus in cannabis leasing), and acquisitions and divestitures. He also has deep experience in environmental, social, governance, public company issues such as enterprise risk, internal audit, compensation, as well as energy efficiency, sustainability and corporate social responsibility.
Prior to joining Duane Morris and for nearly 20 years, Brad served as executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of Brandywine Realty Trust. At Brandywine, Mr. Molotsky was responsible for all legal operations of the company, including acquisitions and divestitures, financings, joint ventures, board matters, insurance procurement, litigation oversight, SEC filing oversight and the legal aspects of capital raising. During his tenure, the company grew from 40 buildings to approximately 300 buildings, totaling 28 million square feet.
In 2020, Mr. Molotsky was named a national influencer in the Opportunity Zone space by OZ Magazine and won The Philadelphia Inquirer Influencers of Law Award for Real Estate. He was also named by The Philadelphia Inquirer as an Influencer of Real Estate for Real Estate Legal Excellence in 2019. He was also named in The Legal Intelligencer's list of Pennsylvania Trailblazers for 2019. Mr. Molotsky was named one of Philadelphia Business Journal's 2018 "Best of the Bar: Top Lawyers in Philadelphia. He was also named General Counsel of the year by the Philadelphia Business Journal in 2014 and NJBIZ in 2013 and was awarded the Martin Luther King Community Service award in 2014, the Township Sustainability Leader Award in 2016 and the Roger Davis Community Service Award in 2017.
Mr. Molotsky is a 1989 cum laude graduate of Villanova University Law School, where he was Order of the Coif, and also earned an M.B.A. in Finance from Villanova University. He is a 1986 cum laude graduate of the University of Delaware. Mr. Molotsky has also earned his LEED AP O+M certification. He also has earned an AV Preeminent® peer review rating from Martindale-Hubbell®.
Areas of Practice
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Opportunity Zone Fund Formation and Fund Deployment
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Public Private Partnerships (P3)/Project Finance
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Commercial Leasing (including cannabis leasing)
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Acquisitions and Divestitures
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Development and Incentives
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Financing
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Real Estate Joint Ventures
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Energy Efficiency, Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility
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Affordable Housing (including Special Needs)
Veronica C. Law
Special Counsel
Duane Morris LLP
Veronica C. Law focuses her practice on complex commercial real estate transactions and financial institution representation. With more than 20 years of experience handling an array of transactional work for private businesses, non-profits, governmental entities, and individuals, Ms. Law represents clients in transactions involving real estate, finance, and other commercial transactions. Her real estate work encompasses acquisitions and dispositions, leasing, financing and development in retail, multifamily, industrial, warehouse, and commercial condominium regimes.
Ms. Law’s deep business perspective derives from having served as General Counsel of a B2B provider of wholesale products to the auto and RV industry; in-house counsel at an insurance syndicate, and consultant to the Real Estate Department at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. Her industry focus is Banking and Finance, Corporate Real Estate, and Construction and Engineering.
Her community is a huge part of her life, and Ms. Law devotes much of her time outside work to various Fort Worth nonprofit, community-building, and charitable endeavors, including Chairwoman of the Board of Directors for Fort Worth Sister Cities International, President of the Board of Directors for Leadership Fort Worth, member of the Advisory Committee for Tarrant County District 9 for the Minority/Women Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE), on the Board of Directors of the AIDS Outreach Center, and the Board of Governors of The Fort Worth Club.
Ms. Law has been recognized by both her community and within the legal profession. Some of her more notable honors include having been elected to Tarrant County College’s Board of Trustees, representing District 7; being selected as one of Fort Worth’s 400 Most Influential People by Fort Worth Magazine for 2022 through 2024; and having been selected as one of Fort Worth’s 500 Most Influential People by Fort Worth Magazine for 2025 – one of only 20 attorneys included.
Ms. Law graduated from University of Colorado at Boulder with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with Business Emphasis, magna cum laude, and earned her law degree from the University of Colorado School of Law.
Areas of Practice
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Real estate transactions
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Financial transactions
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Commercial transactions
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Corporate
Jimmy Atkinson
Founder of
OZ Insiders &
OpportunityZones.com
Jimmy Atkinson is founder and CEO of OpportunityZones.com, the foremost leader in coverage of the Opportunity Zones investment program since 2018. He is also the founder of OZ Insiders, a mastermind group for high-performing Opportunity Zone professionals and investors. Additionally, he hosts The Opportunity Zones Podcast and the popular OZ investing event series OZ Pitch Day.
Jimmy is a long-time serial entrepreneur, with a background in economics and digital marketing. He started his entrepreneurial journey in his college dorm room, and has since founded, scaled, and sold four different seven- and eight-figure businesses, most notably ETFdb.com, which is now part of VettaFi.
Jimmy has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame, and resides in the great state of Texas with his wife and three children.
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