3rd Annual Fall Financing Commercial Real Estate Forum 2018 | The Commercial Observer | 13 November 2018 | The Metropolitan Club, 1 E 60th St, New York, NY 10022, US

Join more than 200 commercial real estate finance leaders for a targeted half-day event, calling on the industry’s most dynamic players nationwide to share their insights on the state of lending.

Experts will discuss how traditional and non-traditional lenders are responding to the overflow of cash in the market; the battle over balance sheet loans, CMBS executions and life company loans; market trends and predictions; which asset classes are in demand and identifying trouble spots in the market. In addition, attendees will hear directly from the owners diving into the needs and challenges owners face regarding financing and what they look for in a capital source.

2018 Speakers

BRIAN DIAMOND
Partner and National Real Estate Group Co-Chair, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

JEFF DIMODICA
President, Starwood Property Trust

DAVID DURNING
President and CEO, and Chairman of Global Debt Real Estate Strategies, PGIM Real Estate Finance

MARK EDELSTEIN
Partner, Morrison & Foerster

ABBE FRANCHOT
Head of Originations, Commercial Real Estate Lending, Amherst Capital Management

GREGG GERKEN
EVP/Head of US Commercial Real Estate Group, TD Bank

GRETA GUGGENHEIM
CEO, TPG Real Estate Finance Trust ("TRT")

LESLIE HIMMEL
Co-Managing Partner, Himmel + Meringoff

CHRIS LEE
Head of RE Americas, KKR

RONNIE LEVINE
Senior Managing Director, Meridian Capital Group

KARA MCSHANE
Managing Director and Head of CRE Capital Markets & Finance, Wells Fargo Securities

JAY NEVELOFF
Partner and Chair, Real Estate, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

HILARY PROVINSE
Executive Vice President and Head of Mortgage Banking, Berkadia

DAVID SCHONBRAUN
Co-Chief Investment Officer, SL Green

PETER J. SOTOLOFF
Managing Partner and CIO, Mack Real Estate Credit Strategies, L.P.

DUSTIN STOLLY
Vice Chairman and Co-Head Capital Markets Debt & Structured Finance, Newmark Knight Frank

CHAD TREDWAY
Managing Director, Co-Head of Real Estate Banking, JPMorgan Chase

PAUL VANDERSLICE
CEO, CCRE

BRIAN WARD
Global Chief Executive Officer, Trimont Real Estate Advisors

JOSH ZEGEN
Managing Principal, Co-Founder, Madison Realty Capital

2018 Sponsors

• Amherst Capital Management
• BERKADIA
• CORE
• EMERALD CREEK CAPITAL
• J.P MORGAN
• Kramer Levin
• MACK REAL ESTATE CREDIT STRATEGIES
• MADISON REALTY CAPITAL
• MERIDIAN CAPITAL GROUP
• MORRISON FOERSTER
• Newmark Knight Frank
• PGIM
• SEYFARTH SHAE
• STARWOOD PROPERTY TRUST
• STROOK
• TD Bank
• TRIMONT
• WELLS FARGO