Momentum is building for GreenPearl Events’ Distressed Real Estate Summit – New York. Over 800 investors, sellers, banks, special servicers, alternative lenders, attorneys, brokers, developers, architects, and other professionals are expected on October 21 to discuss opportunities and challenges when acquiring, repositioning, and liquidating distressed real estate and notes.
What’s on the agenda?
Buying Assets from the Bank: The How-tos and How-not-tos?
Owners/Banks & Buyers Attempt to Cross the Rubicon of Workouts & Restructuring
The Investors’ Hour: How & Where to Find Distressed Real Estate Deals
Government Regulation Update: Navigating the Uncertain Waters
Meet the Industry’s New Rockstars: Special Servicers
Distressed Multifamily Opportunities
Broken Condos and New Construction Turn-Around
Residential Opportunities: The Realities of REOs, Short Sales, and Foreclosures
Retail under Water: Recovery and the Risk of a Double-Dip
Hardest Hit: Hotels & Hospitality
And, this year we are introducing targeted workshops on timely subjects including GFI Tax Receivables Tax Lien Workshop (see flyer)
See what last year’s attendees and speakers had to say.
As this event is our flagship event and has a strong track record, we expect to sell out, and encourage you to join early. Register now to take advantage of earlybird rates.
For speaking opportunities, contact:
Cheryl Fallick
Director of Events
(646) 862-9391
cheryl@greenpearlevents.com
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Speakers
Over 60 speakers will join the Distressed Real Estate Summit – New York on October 21, including:
- Eric Anton, Executive Managing Director, Eastern Consolidated
- Arvind Bajaj, Executive Vice President – Investments, The Lightstone Group
- Avi Banyasz, Managing Principal, Westbrook Partners
- Scott Barrie, Managing Director, Investcap Advisors LLC
- Jon Barry, Managing Director/Asset Resolution Team, Colliers International
- Keith Brandofino, Partner, Phillips Lytle
- Thomas Fink, SVP & Managing Director, Trepp
- Spencer Garfield, Managing Director, Hudson Realty Capital
- Brett Goldman, Director of Acquisitions, Triangle Equities
- Paul Griesmer, Senior Managing Director, FTI Schonbraun McCann Group
- Dan Harris, EVP & Chief Lending Officer, Dime Savings Bank
- Robert Hazard, VP of Acquisitions & Development, Hersha Hospitality Trust
- Terry Kaufman, President & Founder, Rockhouse Capital
- Jeffrey A. Lenobel, Partner and Chair of the Real Estate Department, Schulte Roth & Zabel
- Daniel Lesser, Senior Managing Director, CB Richard Ellis
- Howard Liggett, President, Distressed Real Estate Consulting Services
- Tom McOsker, Head of Tax Receivables, GFI Group
- Kenneth Olsen, President & CEO, Poko Partners
- Jason Post, President, Post Investment Group
- David Robinov, Senior Vice President/Investments, Acadia Realty Trust
- Jack Rosenfield, Principal, Loan Resolution Advisors
- James Ross, Principal, Ross Rock
- David Schechtman, Principal / Senior Director, Eastern Consolidated
- Jonathan Schultz, Managing Principal, Onyx Equities, LLC
- Don Shapiro, President / CEO, Foresite Realty Partners
- Richard Sprecher, VP of Business Development, Aimbridge Hospitality
- Garrett Thelander, Executive Vice President, Anglo Irish Bank
- Neil Tucker, Partner, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
- Anthony Westreich, President & Chief Operating Officer, Monday Properties
- Tom Zietara, Senior Vice President & Portfolio Management, Torchlight Investments
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Sponsors
These firms are sponsoring the Distressed Real Estate Summit – New York:
Eastern Consolidated is a full-service real estate investment services firm, headquartered in New York City. Eastern’s unusual breadth of knowledge covers the full range of property transactions in terms of both asset types and deal size. Success stems from its loyal team of fifty highly experienced and knowledgeable senior real estate specialists bringing diverse expertise in property disposition, value analysis, and finance of all property types, including office and apartment buildings, lofts, factories, hotels, shopping centers, commercial and residential development sites, taxpayers, parking garages and lots, retail condominiums and air rights transfers.
Colliers International is a leading global real estate services organization defined by our spirit of enterprise. With 15,000 employees in 480 offices in 61 countries we are committed to delivering best in class service to our clients.
Today’s real estate industry must adopt new approaches to address regulatory requirements and financial risks – while meeting the challenges of expanding globally and achieving sustainable growth. The Ernst & Young Global Real Estate Center brings together a worldwide team of professionals to help you achieve your potential – a team with deep technical experience in providing assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. The Center works to anticipate market trends, identify the implications and develop points of view on relevant industry issues. Ultimately it enables us to help you meet your goals and compete more effectively. It’s how Ernst & Young makes a difference.
With over 50 years combined real estate experience, Foresite Realty Partners has initiated two interrelated platforms that compliment the creation of value in its owned real estate portfolio with third-party services: Operating Services and Investment. Based in suburban Chicago, Illinois, Foresite’s experience encompasses not only the major asset classes (office, industrial, retail and multi-family residential), but also specialty use properties such as hospitality, parking garages, gas stations, land and mixed use properties. Foresite’s main geographic reach stretches from New Jersey to Kansas and Minnesota to Georgia with a centralized team in the Chicago land area. In addition, Foresite and its principals have extensive experience throughout other areas of the United States, with a targeted focus on the southeast and southwest regions of the country.
FTI Schonbraun McCann Group (SMG), is a global consulting firm dedicated to creating integrated financial, tax and real estate solutions for clients having underlying value in real estate operations and assets. SMG provides an unsurpassed range of advisory services and represents leading public and private real estate entities including owners/developers, financial institutions, investment banks, opportunity funds, insurance companies, hedge funds, and pension advisors who are challenged by today’s changing market conditions. FTI Schonbraun McCann Group is the real estate advisory business of FTI Consulting, Inc.
Founded in 1987, GFI provides competitive inter-dealer brokerage services in a multitude of global over-the-counter (“OTC”) cash and derivatives markets, including credit derivatives and fixed income, financial derivatives, cash equities and equity derivatives, energy and commodities. GFI is an industry leader in various credit, financial, equity and commodity markets according to recent market surveys published by Risk and Energy Risk magazines.
When looking to transact in the commercial real estate market, investors have multiple avenues in which to participate. Regardless of the transaction venue, a critical component to success involves the ability to source opportunities and the ability to evaluate the opportunity with quality data and analytical tools.
We at Investcap Advisors have introduced an efficient means by which to accomplish these goals in a market that has historically been characterized by inefficiency. The depth and breadth of data we provide through our service aids:
- The lending community seeking origination opportunities
- The real estate investment community seeking both distressed and performing loan opportunities
- The investment sales community seeking workout and advisory opportunities
- The leasing brokerage community seeking tenant leasing opportunities
With the complexity of transactions growing and the different pools of capital seeking different types of opportunity, an efficient and transparent delivery of data into the marketplace is needed and it is what Investcap Advisors provides.
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP is a premier, full-service law firm with offices in New York and Paris. Our strong focus on client service and our single-minded commitment to excellence have enabled us to build long-term relationships with major domestic and international corporations, institutions and individuals that look to us for innovative and practical solutions for both everyday and complex matters.
Phillips Lytle is a New York law firm. We did not move here; we were born here 170 years ago. Phillips Lytle offers a full-service Real Estate practice. We represent sellers, buyers, developers, landlords, tenants, lenders, and borrowers. Our highly capable attorneys and paralegals handle virtually every kind of real property-related matter. Our Real Estate attorneys not only possess a sound knowledge of real estate laws, but also have the responsiveness, expertise, and experience to move projects along to a successful conclusion as quickly and cost-effectively as our uncompromising standards of quality allow.
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP is a multidisciplinary firm with more than 450 lawyers and offices in New York, Washington, D.C., and London. Since the firm’s founding in 1969, our focus has been on serving the financial services industry. For real estate transactions, we organize a team of attorneys from the appropriate departments—tax, environmental, finance, etc. That team, in turn, coordinates with the clients’ other professionals and advisers and, of course, with the client in determining how the transaction can be most effectively and efficiently structured and closed. The real estate practice at SRZ also serve as a part of the Distressed Investment Group, which consists of over twenty partners, melds business reorganization, finance, business transactions and tax expertise to provide focused advice on every phase of distressed investing.
Trepp is the leading provider of CMBS and commercial mortgage information, analytics and technology to the global securities and investment management industries. Trepp’s wealth of solutions and expertise provides both primary and secondary market participants with the tools they need to increase their market intelligence, operational efficiencies and information transparency.
The Trepp CMBS Deal Library is the largest commercially available database of CMBS and the industry’s standard model set that drives CMBS secondary trading worldwide. The Deal Library contains comprehensive information and history on the deals, loans and properties within the global securitized commercial market. Billions of dollars of CMBS have been modeled using Trepp’s solutions.
As the exclusive third-party provider of CMBS cashflows to Bloomberg LP and cashflow power behind Markit’s CMBX indices, Trepp’s reputation for excellence and accuracy is highly recognized by the industry.
Triangle Equities is a Queens-based diversified, full-service, well-respected, professional real estate development firm established in 1986. Lester Petracca, its principal, has been able to successfully leverage his knowledge and experience in the construction industry to create a company that over the years has established expertise in all phases of real estate development–from acquisition, site planning, obtaining approvals, financing, leasing, design, construction, and management. Recently, Triangle has been working with banks to relieve the stress on their balance sheets, working out problem loans either on a fee basis or by purchasing them directly.
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These firms join over 80 firms that have sponsored GreenPearl Events in the last year. For more information on speaking and sponsorship opportunities, please contact our team:
(646) 862-6136 x2
events@greenpearlevents.com
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Testimonials
GreenPearl Events’ Distressed Real Estate Summit: New York unexpectedly became a great networking opportunity for me. My primary purpose for attending was as a guest speaker in a panel discussion. I ended up speaking with attendees for over an hour after the discussion ended, which resulted in three new clients.
— Robert Shakman, Principal, Regents Park, LLC
GreenPearl Events’ conferences provide the real estate industry with real time information and unparalleled market connections that allow executives to achieve superior results.
— Peter Pitsiokos, COO, GYRODYNE
Distressed Real Estate Summit: California is a conference designed by and for commercial and residential real estate executives in California and southwest regional markets. The agenda will speak to the issues unique to the west coast: an abundance of distressed hotels and broken condo deals, and the myriad of opportunities in office, retail, multifamily and retail properties and debt. If you work in this region, make plans to attend February 4th to find out how who is selling, and what it takes to get deals done in a distressed environment.
—Fred B. Córdova, III Senior Vice President, COLLIERS ASSET RESOLUTIONS TEAM
I participated in GreenPearl’s New York Distressed Real Estate Conference, and was impressed with the overall turnout and content. I’m attending their February 4th conference in LA as it promises to provide an objective analysis and review of the new state of our industry.
—Leslie Lundin, President and Managing Partner, LBG REALTY ADVISORS LLC
In these trying times, I always find it beneficial to use all the tools available including meeting with fellow professionals and learning first-hand how to deal with challenges, recognize opportunities and learn what is truly happening in the market.
—Bert Haboucha, Senior Vice President, ISTAR FINANCIAL INC.
“This may the best time in your lifetime to truly help clients take advantage of the current commercial real estate market. If you don’t believe me, attend the Distressed Real Estate Summit–New York City–Sept. 23 and keep your eyes and ears wide open.“
—Jerry Anderson, SPERRY VAN NESS ASSET RECOVERY TEAM
“Many, if not most, real estate professionals have not experienced a real market down cycle. Many of the issues that will be confronted, and have to be dealt with, in resolving current market challenges are being encountered for the first time and will be addressed at “Distressed Real Estate Summit.“
—Aharon Friedman, WILDWOOD CAPITAL GROUP
“Networking is a key ingredient in the success of any service provider and the GreenPearl platform is one of the best of its kind. I was a speaker at a recent event and met some people which resulted in my being retained to assist with the sale of a 25 building portfolio. GreenPearl events provide access to key participants in the marketplace.“
—Robert Knakal, MASSEY KNAKAL REALTY SERVICES
“This year through at least the fourth quarter of 2010 heralds the onset of a truly historical time in the acquisition opportunities presented by the distressed real estate market. The executives at GreenPearl.com have recognized this moment in real estate history and are producing a conference that every serious opportunity fund manager should attend. I will be there!“
—Howard C. Liggett, DISTRESSED REAL ESTATE CONSULTING SERVICES, INC.
“Thank you for asking me to speak at the recent Distressed Real Estate Summit. I have spoken at many events over the years and must congratulate your organization, not only for your fine turnout but your organizational ability. At every stage, the event worked like a fine watch: accurate, acutely tuned, and well-oiled.”
—lan J. Schnurman, ZALMAN & SCHNURMAN
“Thank you for hosting a really informative, fun event in a great setting with great speakers. The panelists you assembled, all dynamic leaders in the green building industry, presented a wealth of insights and knowledge. For someone like me looking to learn more about the various avenues of this industry it was time well spent.”
—Pat Parker, PATRICK PARKER REALTY
“Kennedy Funding has sponsored and attended numerous Greenpearl events. Each event continues to surprise us and bring great connections and business. I highly recommend each event to any company who wants to see a fast return on investment.”
—Stephen Bienko, KENNEDY FUNDING
“It was great to see everyone and great to shake hands with the best and brightest in the industry. The Distressed Real Estate Summit just puts everything in perspective. Although we read a lot and go to a lot of conferences, the Distressed Real Estate Summit puts it all together.”
—Joe Berko, BERKO & ASSOCIATES
“We are very happy. The GreenPearl team put on a great event. We met a lot of very qualified clients that we’re looking forward to doing business in the future. We look forward to more GreenPearl events in the future.”
—Brian Tormey, TITLEVEST / 1031VEST / INSUREVEST
Most real estate professionals excel in a strong market, but those who understand the challenges and complexities of a distressed market are best educated to excel in future up and down cycles and are better prepared to implement the foundations of preserving, maintaining and maximizing the value of their real estate assets. Don’t miss the May 2010 GreenPearl Events’ DISTRESSED REAL ESTATE SUMMIT: CHICAGO to better position yourself in a troubled market and successfully navigate through tougher times.
—Don Shapiro, President / CEO, Foresite Realty Partners
