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Speakers and Panels

Accessing Debt Today

How are investors/lenders accessing debt today? What kind of debt? How have their allocations changed?

David Kadin

David Kadin

Managing Director, Head of Western Region Debt

Nuveen Real Estate

Trent Brown

Trent Brown

Executive Director

PGIM Real Estate

Cade Vander Broek

Cade Vander Broek

Managing Director, West Coast

Money360

Nikole Zoumberakis
Moderator

Nikole Zoumberakis

Shareholder

Buchalter

David Kadin

Managing Director, Head of Western Region Debt

Nuveen Real Estate

David Kadin has 25 years of real estate experience with the last 18 years focused on the structured/high

yield business where he completed over $2 billion in senior floating rate & mezzanine debt transactions.

Currently, David is Head of Debt for the Western U.S at Nuveen Real Estate where he leads a team in

the origination and closing of both fixed and floating rate loans. Since joining in May 2018, David has

led the team in the origination and closing of over $2 billion of fixed and structured loans in the Western

U.S.

Prior to joining Nuveen Real Estate, David spent seven years as a Principal with Los Angeles based

Ares Management where he sourced and closed transactions totaling $300 million for office, industrial,

and multi-family properties in major Western U.S. markets including San Francisco, Silicon Valley, San

Diego, Orange County, Los Angeles, and Phoenix.

Before joining Ares Management in 2011, David was a Senior Director at Wrightwood Capital where he

managed a team of originators and underwriters responsible for sourcing and closing value add senior

debt and mezzanine/preferred equity investments on commercial properties in the Western U.S. At

Wrightwood Capital, David directly sourced and closed thirty two loans totaling $600 million and was

Wrightwood’s top producer in 2007 and 2008 including originating 12 loans totaling $225 million in

2007.

Prior to joining Wrightwood Capital, David worked at Merrill Lynch Capital where he successfully co-

originated, underwrote and closed over $200 million of commercial real estate structured loans including

$100 million in condo conversions.

David’s previous work experience included two years as an Acquisitions Manager at the Irvine

Company as well a Director at FINOVA Realty Capital originating and closing CMBS, bridge, and

mezzanine investments. David received his undergraduate degree in urban studies from the University

of Pennsylvania and a Masters of Urban Planning and a Masters of Public Administration from the

University of Southern California.

Trent Brown

Executive Director

PGIM Real Estate

Trent Brown is an Executive Director with PGIM Real Estate in Los Angeles. In this role, he is responsible for originating a broad range of commercial products, including general account, agency, and bridge/high yield real estate debt. Trent focuses on clients in Southern California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado.

Prior to joining PGIM, Trent was a Director in Wells Fargo Bank's Real Estate Capital Markets group, originating CMBS and floating rate bank products. Prior to Wells, Trent was an Investment Officer/originator in John Hancock Life Insurance Company's commercial real estate finance group.

Trent attended Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, where he graduated with honors with dual bachelor degrees in Economics and Business Administration. He also earned an MBA degree with concentrations in finance and real estate from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Cade Vander Broek

Managing Director, West Coast

Money360

Cade Vander Broek is a Managing Director at Money360. Mr. Vander Broek is responsible for investment origination of bridge loans for the West Coast.

Prior to joining Money360, Mr. Vander Broek was a Director of Commercial Mortgage Loans at AEGON Asset Management. During his 22 years at AEGON AM, he was consistently a top loan originator within the commercial mortgage loan production group. He is experienced in originating fixed, floating, construction and CMBS loans. He regularly negotiated and structured complex mortgage loan transactions in accordance with internal and external client lending guidelines, with advice and consultation with legal counsel, environmental and engineering experts, along with various other third-party vendors. Mr. Vander Broek also helped develop and recommend new loan product offerings during his tenure with the company. Mr. Vander Broek proactively identified market opportunities and issued recommended risk mitigation in collaboration with servicing, special servicing and asset management.

Mr. Vander Broek earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Finance with a Real Estate emphasis and minored in Economics from the University of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls, Iowa where he graduated Cum Laude.

Nikole Zoumberakis

Moderator

Buchalter

Ms. Zoumberakis is a shareholder at Buchalter and has been a transactional attorney for over 15 years. Her practice covers a wide range of corporate, partnership and general securities matters, with a focus on real estate and private equity funds. She counsels on a broad range of legal and compliance issues faced by sponsors, including fund structure, portfolio investments, co-investment structures, and internal governance and compliance. Ms. Zoumberakis earned her J.D. at NYU School of Law and received her B.A. at the University of California, Berkeley.

Equity Dynamics

How Is Capital Entering the Market & How Do Dealmakers See It Playing Out?

David Pringle

David Pringle

Executive Director

Morgan Stanley

Mike Hu

Mike Hu

Managing Director, Capital Markets

Gaw Capital Partners

Heather Turner

Heather Turner

CEO & Co-Founder

Tamarack Capital Partners

Spencer Schlee

Spencer Schlee

Managing Director, Head of Opportunistic Equity

Canyon Partners Real Estate

Keith Pollock
Moderator

Keith Pollock

Partner

Allen Matkins

David Pringle

Executive Director

Morgan Stanley

David Pringle is an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley in the Real Estate Investing team (MSREI) and is responsible for sourcing and executing investment opportunities primarily for the firm's US business, with a particular focus on the Western region. Previously, Mr. Pringle was a Director at GTIS Partners in New York. Prior to GTIS, he held roles within the Real Estate Principal Investment Area (REPIA) at Goldman Sachs and at Citigroup in the firm's Global Capital Markets division, both in London. Mr. Pringle received an M.B.A. from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a B.A. in International Relations from Stanford University.

Mike Hu

Managing Director, Capital Markets

Gaw Capital Partners

Mike Hu has over 14 years of real estate and management consulting experience and currently leads the Capital Markets team in the US. He is currently based in the LA office (Gaw USA headquarters) and is responsible for capital formation, co-investments, investor relations and marketing. He joined Gaw in 2011 and was previously a member of Gaw Capital Partners’ acquisitions and investment team based in Hong Kong (the global headquarters), and formerly worked for Tishman Speyer as part of their Leadership Development Program. While at Tishman Speyer, he completed rotations in their London and New York offices, working in acquisitions, debt financing/restructuring, property and asset management, and design & construction. Prior to business school, Mike was a strategy and operations consultant for five years focused primarily on the real estate and energy industries. He has significant experience working in Asia, Europe, and the US. Mike is conversationally fluent in Mandarin Chinese. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics/International Area Studies with college and Latin honors from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and a Master of Business Administration from London Business School.

Heather Turner

CEO & Co-Founder

Tamarack Capital Partners

Heather Turner is the CEO and co-founder of Tamarack Capital Partners, a privately held real estate investment firm that focuses on value-add hotel and resort investments. Prior to founding Tamarack, Ms. Turner was a partner at DiNapoli Capital Partners. Earlier in her career she worked with Maritz Wolff, Broadreach Capital Partners, The Walt Disney Company and the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She is an active member of the AHLA Hotel Investment Roundtable and a past Chair of the Hotel Asset Managers Association. Heather received her BS from Florida State University and her MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Spencer Schlee

Managing Director, Head of Opportunistic Equity

Canyon Partners Real Estate

Spencer Schlee, Senior Director, heads the Southwest region for Canyon’s opportunistic and value-add

real estate platforms and is responsible for originating, structuring and executing both equity and debt

investments.  Mr. Schlee joined Canyon’s acquisitions team in 2012 and has since worked on

transactions investing over $1.0 billion of committed capital and totaling over $3.0 billion in total

capitalization across various sectors including multifamily, hospitality, office, retail, senior housing and

mixed-use.  Prior to joining Canyon, Mr. Schlee was an analyst at BlackRock in New York and is a

graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles (B.A. Business Economics).  Mr. Schlee is also an

Associate Board Member for the UCLA Department of Economics.

Keith Pollock

Moderator

Allen Matkins

Keith J. Pollock is a real estate partner in our Los Angeles office whose practice involves a broad range of commercial real estate transactions, with a particular focus on leasing, the acquisition and disposition of individual properties and portfolios, and borrower side real estate finance. Keith's clients include investment companies, pension funds, banks, real estate investment trusts and other owners and operators of real estate throughout the country. In connection with his leasing practice, Keith represents both landlords and tenants in office, retail, industrial, medical, shopping center and other mixed-use projects throughout California, Colorado, Arizona, New York and various other states.

Prior to joining Allen Matkins, Keith practiced in New York as a real estate associate with Schulte, Roth & Zabel LLP and then Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP.

Why This Matters

What You'll Learn:

  • Considering the current market conditions, what fundamentals are investment experts paying the most attention to?

  • What asset classes and neighborhoods are lenders and investors most interested in? What are they wary of?

  • How are developers putting capital stacks together today? How are developers accessing equity?

  • Looking ahead, how are investors building pandemic-resilient portfolios?

How You'll Do More Business:

As reported by NorthMarq, buyers in the Southern California markets advise that the market will be quick to recover. Buyer capital and interest are drawn to Southern California due to great long-term fundamentals. With investor support and low interest rates, SoCal investors show support for the market. What fundamentals are investors focusing on and in which asset classes and neighborhoods? Join us in learning what the experts have to say about the current Capital Markets landscape in LA.

Who Attends: 

Brokers, owners, developers, investors, construction, designers, architects, financial institutions, government officials and more! 

Why You Should Attend:

Bisnow events bring together the biggest power players in the industry to identify opportunities, build your network and expand your business. With the largest audience of commercial real estate professionals in the world, no one knows how to help your business more than us. Join Bisnow as we jump into the market in Southern California to analyze its strengths and strategize on its areas of opportunity.

For questions, recommendations, comments, or press inquiries please email our California event producer, Madison Weisiger at madison.weisiger@bisnow.com.

Venue

JW Marriott
900 W Olympic Blvd
Los Angeles CA 90015

Ballroom: Diamond Ballroom, 4th Floor, please go up escalators in lobby


Parking: Valet, $20/Day before 5PM with discount voucher

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Agenda

Time Activity
4:00 PM
5:00 PM
Pre-Event Networking
5:00 PM
5:35 PM
Accessing Debt Today

How are investors/lenders accessing debt today? What kind of debt? How have their allocations changed?

5:35 PM
6:20 PM
Equity Dynamics

How Is Capital Entering the Market & How Do Dealmakers See It Playing Out?

6:20 PM
7:00 PM
Post-Event Networking

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