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Built to Last: Resilience Tech and the Future of Corporate Buildings and Commercial Real Estate

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MoFo was proud to host <a href="https://www.tailwindfutures.com/events/sf-climate-week/" target="_blank">Built to Last: Resilience Tech and the Future of Corporate Buildings & Commercial Real Estate</a> during SF Climate Week 2026, alongside <a href="https://www.tailwindfutures.com/" target="_blank">Tailwind Futures</a>, <a href="https://www.class3technologies.com/">Class 3 Technologies</a>, and <a href="https://www.arup.com/en-us/" target="_blank">Arup</a>.The event brought together industry leaders and experts to explore how emerging technologies can strengthen climate resilience in commercial real estate. Discussions focused on leveraging innovative solutions to assess and manage climate risks, improve property insurability, reduce operating costs, and enhance long-term asset value. Speakers also examined strategies for implementing resilience retrofits and advancing innovative insurance solutions.MoFo partner Shai Kalansky delivered opening remarks to welcome attendees and participated in a fireside chat with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/arjunsaroya/" target="_blank">Arjun Saroya</a>, co-founder and CEO of SkyCool Systems, exploring the opportunities and challenges of integrating emerging technologies into buildings. The session took place at the time listed below:<ul><li>Embedding New Tech into Buildings: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (10:00 a.m. PT)</li></ul>To learn more about SF Climate Week, visit <a href="https://www.sfclimateweek.org/" target="_blank">its website</a>.<hr>

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Shai Kalansky focuses his practice on corporate and transactional matters, including mergers, acquisitions, venture capital financings, and securities offerings, for public and private companies. His clients are U.S. and non-U.S. entities in the climate tech, life sciences, healthcare, hospitality, and technology industries. Shai has extensive experience representing startup to late-stage private companies in the climate tech and sustainability space. He provides corporate and finance advice in connection with equity and convertible debt financings, mergers, acquisitions, asset purchases and sales, reorganizations, and joint ventures. He has extensive experience working with sustainable infrastructure companies throughout their lifecycle. Shai regularly advises investors on investments, acquisitions, and dispositions of climate tech companies.Shai has a robust life sciences practice advising innovative and disruptive companies across numerous subsectors. His clients include medical device, genetic testing, plant-based therapeutics, bio-marker-derived diagnostic solutions, laboratory consumables, and immunotherapy cancer treatment companies. His experience in the sector enables him to successfully advise his clients across various transactions.Shai acts as companies’ outside general counsel, in which capacity he advises clients with respect to licensing matters, commercial contracts, and employment issues.Shai was recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America 2023-2024 for Corporate, M&A, and Venture Capital. He was also ranked as Up and Coming for Venture Capital by Chambers USA 2024. His venture capital clients interviewed by Chambers USA mentioned Shai is very “responsive and thoughtful” and “knowledgeable and pragmatic.”Shai is a member of MoFo’s Sustainability + Corporate Responsibility Steering Committee and is also an attorney co-chair of the Environmental Sustainability Firmwide Committee. Shai serves on the California Leadership Counsel for The Nature Conservancy.He is fluent in Hebrew and conversant in Spanish.

Built to Last: Resilience Tech and the Future of Corporate Buildings and Commercial Real Estate

22 Apr 2026