DISTRESSED REAL ESTATE SUMMIT

720 Attended GreenPearl's Launch Event, DRES-NY

720 national and regional INVESTORS, OWNERS, DEVELOPERS, TRADITIONAL AND ALTERNATIVE LENDING SOURCES, BROKERS, ATTORNEYS attended DISTRESSED REAL ESTATE SUMMIT on September 23rd in New York City. Thank you for making our launch event such a success! We look forward to unveiling a series of premier conferences and networking events that aim to identify the challenges and opportunities in today's climate. Please e-mail Brian@GreenPearl.com with questions or suggestions about future events.

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720 national and regional INVESTORS, OWNERS, DEVELOPERS, TRADITIONAL AND ALTERNATIVE LENDING SOURCES, BROKERS, ATTORNEYS attended DISTRESSED REAL ESTATE SUMMIT on September 23rd in New York City. Thank you for making our launch event such a success! We look forward to unveiling a series of premier conferences and networking events that aim to identify the challenges and opportunities in today’s climate. Please e-mail Brian@GreenPearl.com with questions or suggestions about future events.

Agenda to include:

Government intervention: TALF, Legacy Loans & PPIP	New and unconventional lending sources that investors / owners / developers should know about	Exploring the role of special servicers
Residential real estate & debt: foreclosures, REOs, and short sales: where are the opportunities?	Tax Liens: A more effective and cost-efficient means to ownership?	Commercial real estate & debt: How will CMBS maturities and other expiring debt create new opportunities?
Buying, Selling & Determining Value	The “Delinquent Sector:” A Closer Look at the Ramifications of Excessive Leverage in the Multifamily Sector	Distressed Construction & Development: Opportunities, or only Challenges?
Brokers’ Response to an Illiquid Market	Non-Performing Leases & Impact on Cash Flow	Geographic Breakdown: Distressed RE around the U.S.

Also: Live Distressed Property and Debt Deal Making Sessions

Robert Shiller
Chief Economist and Co-Founder
MACROMARKETS
Robert J. Shiller is the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, and Professor of Finance and Fellow at the International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management. His repeat-sales home price indices, developed originally with Karl E. Case, are now published as the Standard & Poor’s/Case Shiller Home Price Indices. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange now maintains futures markets based on these indices. He has been research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research since 1980, and has been co-organizer of NBER workshops: on behavioral finance with Richard Thaler since 1991, and on macroeconomics and individual decision making (behavioral macroeconomics) with George Akerlof since 1994.

Spencer Levy
Sr. Managing Director
CBRE Restructuring Services

Spencer Levy is responsible for overseeing and coordinating the activities of more than 300 investment sales and debt/equity finance professionals in the Eastern region of the United States. Recently, Levy was named head of CBRE’s Restructuring Services Group, which will oversee note sales, asset sales and recapitalizations. Additionally, the Restructuring Services Group will provide advisory services either for lenders or for borrowers before a foreclosure or a bankruptcy, and assist in restructuring or bankruptcy for creditors or debtors.

Sam Chandan
President and Chief Economist
REAL ESTATE ECONOMICS LLC

Dr. Sam Chandan is amongst the most prominent researchers in the field of multifamily and commercial real estate. Dr. Chandan’s commentary on commercial and residential real estate markets, the economy, and capital and credit markets is featured in national and global print publications, on radio, and on television. His assessment of market conditions has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and the New York Times; in BusinessWeek, Bloomberg News, Reuters, and Forbes; on CNBC, the Fox Business Network, CNN, MSNBC, Bloomberg Television, and Nightly Business Report; and, on National Public Radio and Public Radio International.

Thomas A. Fink
Senior Vice President, Managing Director
TREPP

In June, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York selected Trepp LLC as a collateral monitor for CMBS as part of the “Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility” (TALF). Thomas Fink joined Trepp in August 1997 and brings to Trepp over thirty years experience with a wide range of financial engineering and modeling assignments, including transactions in mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities. As an advisor, Mr. Fink directed the first securitization of economic development loans financed through HUD’s Community Development Block Grant Program.