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Please join some of the country’s leading commercial real estate figures for a real time look at the equity and debt markets. Will credit loosen in 2010? When will construction financing return? What lies ahead for the CMBS market? When will equity waiting on the sidelines be deployed and into what asset classes? An important discussion at a critical time for the region's economy.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
NY Bar Association
42 West 44th Street
New York, NY 10036
(Between 5th & 6th Ave on West 44th)
Agenda
| 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM |
Breakfast & Schmooze |
| 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM |
Keynote Interview: Ethan Penner |
| 9:00 AM – 9:45 AM |
Panel of Experts |
| 9:45 AM – 10:15 AM |
Post-game Schmooze |
Price
$49
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Space is limited.
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Ethan Penner
President & Founder
CBRE Capital Partners
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| CBRE Capital Partners is CBRE’s global real estate finance platform. In addition to Ethan's role at CBRE Capital Partners, Ethan is Executive Managing Director of CBRE Investors, the investment management arm of CBRE and is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Industry veteran, Ethan was one of the youngest to make partner at Morgan Stanley where he headed their mortgage finance operation. Later, he founded The Capital Company of America (formerly known as Nomura Asset Capital) where he pioneered the use of U.S. capital markets to originate commercial real estate loans. He was voted the Real Estate industry’s Financial Services Executive of the Year for five consecutive years, and was included in Global Finance Magazine’s list of the world’s 600 most powerful people in Finance. |
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Arthur Sonnenblick
Senior Managing Director
Cushman & Wakefield Sonnenblick Goldman
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| C&WSG is a leading real estate investment banking firm. Arthur served as President of Sonnenblick-Goldman from 1978-1987 and CEO from 1978-1995. From 1979-1983, he was a Partner and member of the Board of Lehman Brothers. He is a past President of the Mortgage Bankers Association of New York and a past member of the Board of Governors of the Real Estate Board of New York. |
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Mark Portner
Managing Director, Capital Transactions Group
Shorenstein Properties
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| Shorenstein has invested in properties totaling over 42.6 million square feet in markets throughout the U.S. The company is currently investing its 9th fund, which has committed equity in excess of $2 billion. Mark is responsible for sourcing, evaluating, negotiating, and closing capital transactions in the Eastern United States, with particular focus on New York, Washington, D.C., and South Florida. |
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Woody Heller
Group Head Capital Transactions Group
Studley
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| Woody is responsible for investment sales activity in the New York market, where he focuses on office, residential, and specialty retail buildings, the most notable of which were the sale of Citigroup Center and the Rhinelander Mansion leased to Polo Ralph Lauren. Separate from the outright sale of properties, he has also structured participating and/or convertible mortgages, equity joint ventures, and note sales, the most notable of which was the sale of the notes and mortgage encumbering the Chrysler Building. Woody has closed over $6 billion of asset and note sale transactions comprising more than 32M SF. |
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MODERATOR |
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David Dubrow
Partner & Co-Chair Business Department
Arent Fox
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| David focuses on real estate finance, acquisition of mortgage loans, tax-exempt finance, workouts and bankruptcy matters. He has also represented clients in the acquisition of over $10 billion of real estate loans. David advises clients on senior loan and mezzanine financing, securitizations, derivative products, low-income housing tax credits, tax-exempt bonds and complex security structures across all asset classes. He also has extensive workout and bankruptcy experience ranging from representing clients on the Drexel Burnham and Lehman Brothers creditors committees and in the United Airlines, Delta Airlines and Orange County bankruptcy cases. |
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