Agenda In Brief
7:00 – 8:00 — Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 – 8:10 — Opening Remarks
Brian Klebash, Director of Events, GREENPEARL EVENTS
Ryan Slack, CEO, GREENPEARL EVENTS
8:10 – 8:30 — California and Southwest Distressed Real Estate: How Much Debt is in Distress, Where, and Involving What Property Types?
Eric Entringer, Senior Manager, Distressed Real Estate Group, ERNST & YOUNG
Entringer
8:30 – 9:15 — Seeking Distress: Who Will Deploy Capital in 2010?
Moderator: Jeffrey Lenobel, Partner, SCHULTE ROTH & ZABEL LLP
Sean Dalfen, Managing Director, DALFEN AMERICA
Leslie Lundin, President and Managing Partner, LBG REALTY ADVISORS, LLC
Mark Oei, Managing Director, OAKTREE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
Richard Pink, Managing Director, ING CLARION
Kev Zoryan, Executive Director, MORGAN STANLEY | MERCHANT BANKING
Lenobel Dalfen Lundin Oei Pink Zoryan
9:15 – 9:30 — Networking Break
9:30 – 10:15 —

Alternative, Traditional & Emerging: Today’s Debt Market in Focus


Conference Preview, click here to listen to the Teleconference Call – The New State of Lending
Moderator: Erich Beringer, President, SOUTHBRIDGE CAPITAL
Gregory S. Davis, Vice President, Commercial & Small Business Lending, WELLS FARGO CALIFORNIA BUSINESS BANKING
Jeff Friedman, Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer, MESA WEST CAPITAL
Steven C. Orchard, Senior Vice President, GEORGE SMITH PARTNERS, INC.
Brian Shniderson, Managing Director, B&A CAPITAL PARTNERS
Mark Strauss, Director Capital Markets, COHEN FINANCIAL
Beringer Davis Friedman Orchard Shniderson Strauss
10:15 – 11:00 Track A — Buying, Selling & Determining Value: Sharp and Fast Decline… But Equally Sharp Return? What’s the Future Hold for California Commercial Real Estate Values?
Moderator: W. Eric Paulsen, Vice President, LNR PROPERTY CORPORATION
G. Ryan Smith, Principal, PEREGRINE REALTY PARTNERS
Glenn Ezard, Senior Consultant, SEGAL ADVISORS
David Rosenthal, MAI, MRICS, President & CEO, CURTIS-ROSENTHAL, INC.
Matthew C. Sullivan, Founding Principal, LEE & ASSOCIATES
Burton Young, President, SPERRY VAN NESS EQUITIES
Paulsen Smith Ezard Rosenthal Sullivan Young
10:15 – 11:00 Track B — Investment, Development and Finance Case Studies
Emerging Debt and Equity Sources Yield Results: Creative Financing Backed By Urban Hotel Development
Richard Heyman, Founder and Managing Partner, FIVE CHAIRS DEVELOPMENT
Learn how one local developer is combining government debt (Recovery Zone Facility Bonds), New Markets Tax Credit, foreign investment, with his own equity to break ground on his next project.


Alternative Asian Debt Financing: A burgeoning source of mortgage capital for commercial and residential transactions; and Asian Institutional Equity Investments in REITs, Sponsors & Single-Assets Acquisitions
John F. Tsui, Adjunct Assistant Professor, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY / Managing Principal, IDA, LLC

“Working with Debtors in Possession for Acquisition Opportunities”
Rick George, Principal, HREC INVESTMENT ADVISORS
Case study involves Radisson Hotel O’Hare, 467 Unit first class, full service hotel with approximately 30,000 square feet of function space, located in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, adjacent to O’Hare International Airport.
11:00 – 11:15 — Networking Break
11:15 – 12:00 Track A — Hotels, Hotels, and More Hotels: Should Investors Buy Now, or Wait for Additional Declines in Value?
Moderator: Robert B. Stiles, Executive Vice President & Principal, CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD SONNENBLICK-GOLDMAN, LLC
Ken Cruse, Chief Financial Officer, SUNSTONE HOTEL INVESTORS
Dennis Gemberling, President, PERRY GROUP INTERNATIONAL
Bert Haboucha, Senior Vice President, ISTAR FINANCIAL
Joel W. Hiser, CEO, HORWATH
Alan Reay, President, ATLAS HOSPITALITY GROUP
Steve Van, President & CEO, PRISM HOTELS AND RESORTS
Stiles Cruse Gemberling Haboucha Hiser Reay Van
11:15 – 12:00 Track B — Opportunities in Broken Condo Deals: Disposition, Acquisition and Administration of For-Sale Housing Assets
Moderator: Terry Heller, Managing Member, Principal, HELLER HOLDINGS
Steve Bram, Principal, Senior Director, GEORGE SMITH PARTNERS, INC.
Scott Choppin, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, URBAN PACIFIC GROUP OF COMPANIES
Marc Brooks, Executive Vice President, MARA ESCROW COMPANY
David Wald, President | Receiver, WALD REALTY ADVISORS, INC.
Mark Weinstein, Developer, MJW INVESTMENTS
Heller Bram Choppin Brooks Wald Weinstein
12:00 – 12:30 — Networking Lunch Begins
12:30 – 1:05 — Luncheon Discussion: Up Close with Spencer Levy, CBRE

with Michael Gottlieb, Editor, CALIFORNIA REAL ESTATE JOURNAL
Levy Gottlieb
1:05 – 1:50 — A Practical, Legal and Tax Perspective on Buying and Selling Distressed Real Estate and Debt in California
Moderator: Maura O’Connor, Partner, SEYFARTH SHAW LLP
Scott Bottles, Managing Director, WELLS FARGO BANK
James Debree, Tax Partner, DELOITTE TAX
Richard Kent, Senior Vice President, REDC COMMERCIAL
Tim Meier, Partner, PREFERRED CAPITAL ADVISORS
Kenneth W. Swenson, Assistant General Counsel, BANK OF AMERICA
John Wickser, President, WATT REALTY ADVISORS
O’Connor Bottles Kent Meier Wickser Swenson
1:50 – 2:35
Track A		 — California Commercial Real Estate Investor Panel: Office, Retail and Industrial Executives Discuss Today’s Climate
Moderator: Fred B. Córdova, III, Senior Vice President / Investment Services Group, West Regional Manager, COLLIERS ASSET RESOLUTIONS TEAM
Michael S. Adler, President – MAI, CPM, ADLER REALTY INVESTMENTS, INC.
Mark Laderman, Managing Director — Los Angeles, TISHMAN SPEYER
Matthew May, President, MAY REALTY ADVISORS
Richard J. Plummer, Executive Vice President / Institutional Capital Markets, GRUBB & ELLIS COMPANY
Sam Rosenwald, Partner, BLACK EQUITIES GROUP, LTD.
Kevin Shannon, Vice Chairman, CB RICHARD ELLIS
Cordova Adler Laderman May Plummer Rosenwald Shannon
1:50 – 2:35
Track B		 — Residential Real Estate Investor Power Panel
Moderator: Richard M. Gollis, Co-Founder and Principal, THE CONCORD GROUP
Tom Eggleston, Principal, BENHAM REO
Phil Seymour, Executive Vice President, THE SEYMOUR GROUP/ELITE PROPERTIES
Dave Schumacher, President & Chief Underwriter, TAX TITLE SERVICES
Gregor Watson, Managing Partner, MCKINLEY PARTNERS
Gollis Eggleston Seymour Schumacher Watson
2:35 – 3:20
Track A		 — The “Workout Panel:” Years of Excessive Leverage Turn the Industry on Its Head…What’s Next for Investors and Owners?
Moderator: Glenn A. Fuller, Esq., Partner, JACKSON | DEMARCO | TIDUS | PECKENPAUGH
Matthew J. Coleman, Co-Head, D. E. SHAW REAL ESTATE ADVISORS, L.L.C.
Christopher Grey, Managing Partner, THIRD WAVE PARTNERS
Jonathan Grossman Senior Vice President, GEORGE SMITH PARTNERS
Ginn Downing, Director, THE SITUS COMPANIES
Gregory T. Rickard, Managing Director, EQUASSURE
Fuller Coleman Grey Grossman Downing Rickard
2:35 – 3:20
Track B		 — Value Add & Property Conversions: Will 2010 Herald the Beginning of a New Real Estate Chapter Involving Conversions of Mostly Under-Performing Assets?
Moderator: John D Troughton, Senior Director – Brokerage, CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD, INC.
Mark Hansen, Senior Vice President, Value Added Conversions, AMB PROPERTY CORPORATION
Jane F. Hoffner, Managing Director, BASCOM PORTFOLIO ADVISORS
Charles A. Long, Principal, CHARLES A. LONG PROPERTIES LLC
Yan Khamish, Managing Director, THE STG GROUP
Richard Gentilucci, MAR VENTURES
Troughton Hansen Hoffner Long Khamish Gentilucci
3:20 – 3:35 — Networking Break
3:35 – 4:15

 — Delinquencies, Defaults, and Foreclosures: Analysis of the Distressed Note Buying Opportunities in Today’s Climate
Moderator: Terry Kaufmann, President, ROCKHOUSE CAPITAL, LLC
David M. Frank, Chief Executive Officer, THE MERRILL GROUP OF COMPANIES
William J. Hoffman, President & CEO, TRIGILD
Troy Miller, Principal, OCEAN WEST CAPITAL PARTNERS
Selina I. Parelskin, President, BEACON DEFAULT MANAGEMENT, INC
David P. Stapleton, Founder, STAPLETON GROUP
Kaufmann Frank Hoffman Miller Parelskin Stapleton
4:15 – 5:00
 — Featured Panel: Economic Stimulation & Real Estate
Moderator: Brian Klebash, Director of Events, GREENPEARL EVENTS
Robert Knakal, Chairman, MASSEY KNAKAL
Sam Chandan, President and Chief Economist, REAL ESTATE ECONOMETRICS
Christopher Thornberg, Principal, BEACON ECONOMICS
R. Rand Sperry, Co-Founder, SPERRY VAN NESS INTERNATIONAL
Klebash Knakal Chandan Thornberg Sperry
5:00 – 6:00 — Cocktail Reception