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.
Avant Capital Partners is a real estate investment bank, advisory firm and correspondent lender for several institutional investors. The principals and directors of our company have completed over $5 billion in debt and equity financings, and our team boasts a broad range of experience as developers, owners, managers and financiers of commercial real estate. Our experience ranges from the most basic small-balance apartment loans to highly complex $300 million project development debt and equity structures.
Avant Capital Partners’ capital markets expertise positions you to successfully complete your real estate financing, regardless of size or complexity. We maintain the capital markets relationships critical to accomplishing your specific needs in today’s complex and evolving capital market.
In 1981 Bloomberg started out with one core belief: that bringing transparency to capital markets through access to information could increase capital flows, produce economic growth and jobs, and significantly reduce the cost of doing business. Today’s Bloomberg builds on that foundation – everything we do connects decision makers in business, finance and government to a broad and dynamic network of information, news, people and ideas that enables faster, more effective decisions. Come see how we do it.
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.
In 1975, David Lerner was teaching history and economics at Bayside High School in Queens. Today, he is owner and president of David Lerner Associates, a privately-held investment company, with clients’ assets under management of almost $8 billion. “We are extremely proud of what we do,” says David Lerner, whose “Take a Tip from Poppy” radio segments are well known in the metropolitan New York area.
In keeping with the firm’s commitment to educating the public, the company regularly holds free investment seminars that have taught investors about the opportunities available to them. These seminars attract thousands of people every year and are held throughout the tri-state New York area and in Florida. A schedule of these seminars can be found by clicking on the “Learn About Our Seminars” link below or to the left.
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.
The Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh delivers financial services of the highest quality by relying on traditional, time-honored principles like personal service and good, honest value. As a trusted community bank for over 145 years, we have deep roots in the communities we serve, and our customers have come to trust Dime for their personal and business banking needs, for home loans and business financing, and for financial guidance. Honoring that trust is our most important mission, and by doing so, we will deliver superior results not only for our customers, but for our communities, our employees, and our shareholders.
The bank is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dime Community Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: DCOM), a publicly-owned company. We have 25 branches and over 400 employees, many of whom are also shareholders of the company.
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.
Investcap Advisors LLC provides market intelligence data and analysis on loans and properties underlying the Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities (CMBS) universe. Our web-based platforms, LoanAdvisor and CREDataXpress, are scalable solutions that provide valuable insight on the loans and their underlying properties.
Our customers also have access to customizable data feeds to insure seamless integration with proprietary models or spreadsheet applications with up-to-date information tailored to their specific needs, exactly when they need it.
Leverage Investcap’s loan and property performance data, historical servicer commentary on distressed loans and property tenancy & leasing information to accelerate your production, analyze market metrics or evaluate risk. Whether your footprint is five blocks or five time zones, we have a solution to match your needs and provide just the right data- at just the right time.
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.
Margolin, Winer & Evens LLP is one of the largest accounting and business advisory firms in the Northeast. Since 1946, MWE has provided expert advice to a cross-section of the real estate industry, including developers, owners and operators of commercial, industrial, retail and residential properties, as well as financial institutions and individual investors. Our expertise covers a wide range of applications from rental and mixed-use facilities to cooperatives, condominiums, community developments, hospitality, recreational and special purpose facilities.
MWE’s leadership in providing services to the real estate industry is based on a conviction that we serve a dual role as accountants and business and financial advisors. Our goal is to assist clients in structuring sound real estate transactions, as well as developing effective tax and finance strategies that address their overall business and financial objectives.
Marketing Thru Graphics is an award winning marketing and communications firm dedicated to assisting financial firms, real estate brokers, developers and owners in leasing and selling commercial, residential, retail and hospitality real estate. Need an accomplished, award winning design firm to create your next ad campaign, brochures, direct mail campaign, web site and offering memorandum? Then you’ve come to the right place. Come on in and have a look. Enter Site.
Massey Knakal is the New York metropolitan area’s premier full service sales company, specializing in the sale of investment and user properties. With over 100 employees, four offices and thorough coverage of the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester County, Long Island and New Jersey, Massey Knakal Realty Services dominates the New York metropolitan area’s building sales marketplace.
Massey Knakal handles many different property types, including commercial buildings, apartment buildings, townhouses, mixed use investment building, mixed use user buildings, live plus income buildings, industrial properties and development/conversion sites. Our agents are experienced in representing properties of all values, from $500,000 properties to portfolios exceeding $100 million.
Combining features of small and large urban firms, Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Breitstone, LLP provides clients with quality legal talent and breadth of practice to attract not only Fortune 500 companies, but also medium and smaller sized public and private corporations, real estate developers, venture capitalists and individuals.
Meltzer Lippe is a full-service business law firm that, among other things, has a nationally recognized tax practice with emphasis on real estate transactional planning, and provides domestic and international corporate and securities, tax, labor and employment, litigation, financial, employee benefits, bankruptcy/creditors’ rights, workout, and real estate legal services as well as a broad range of personal services including wills and trusts, estate planning and administration.
NAI Global is the premier network of independent commercial real estate firms and one of the largest commercial real estate service providers worldwide. NAI Global manages a network of 5,000 professionals and 325 offices in 55 countries throughout the world. NAI professionals work together with our global management team to help our clients strategically optimize their real estate assets. NAI offices around the world completed over $45 billion in transactions annually. We also manage over 200 million square feet of commercial space.
NAI Global is based in Princeton, New Jersey. A dedicated 70-person staff, strategically positioned around the world, provides management, technology, marketing and corporate services support to its network of real estate offices.
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.
Founded in August 2003, Point Capital Partners, LLC is a private, veteran-owned asset management and merchant banking firm focused on the alternative investment marketplace. PCP creates and structures proprietary private investment opportunities and manages private investment funds in various sectors of interest and with various investment strategies.
Our mission is to offer clients superior investment performance and service within the construct of a “next generation” platform for financial services across multiple products and alternative asset classes.
Post Investment Group is an opportunistic real estate investment firm focused on the acquisition of multi-family assets nationwide. The company specializes in core plus, value-add and distressed investment opportunities capitalized through private and institutional investors. We leverage our expertise in deal structuring and asset enhancement to bolster potential returns to our partners.
Post Investment Group has a single directive; to build wealth for our investors. Our team of professionals ensures the proficient execution, continual risk management and maximized return in each of our endeavors.
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.
Tamarkin Anderson LLC provides real estate development expertise and partnering capabilities to owners, lenders, and investors experiencing the challenges and opportunities of the current economic environment. Our long-standing track record in development and over $2 billion of workouts enables us to provide highly specialized services.
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.
WeiserMazars LLP, an independent U.S. member firm of Mazars Group, meets the critical issues and competitive challenges facing global organizations, owner managed businesses and high net worth individuals. We provide innovative accounting, auditing, tax and financial advisory services to a diverse range of clients in industries including: real estate, financial services, manufacturing & distribution, media & communications, healthcare, and not-for-profit. Our organizational structure and access to professionals throughout the world facilitate strong client relations and excellent service.
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