Overview

In the past year, over 1500 have attended GreenPearl Events’ Distressed Real Estate Summit series around the U.S.  Join us in Houston on November 18, for a powerful one-day informational and networking event that brings together c-suite and senior executives in commercial and residential real estate to discuss the opportunities and challenges of today’s real estate market.

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: Including the Dodd/Frank Bill
  • Meet the Special Servicers
  • Residential Track: Distressed Multifamily; Residential Opportunities
  • Commercial Track: Retail under Water; Hotels & Hospitality
  • Repositioning Distressed Assets
  • Texas in Focus

And, this year we are introducing targeted workshops on timely subjects including GFI Tax Receivables Tax Lien Workshop (see flyer)

See more testimonials.

As we are in the early stages of agenda creation and speaker selection, we encourage you to reach out to us if you are interested in speaking, sponsoring or exhibiting at this year’s event. Already,  B&A Capital Partners, Ernst & Young, GFI Group, and Schulte Roth & Zabel have chosen to sponsor this event.

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

Over 40 speakers will join the Distressed Real Estate Summit – Texas on November 18, 2010, including:

  • Jack Ehrman, Partner, Post Investment Group
  • Lance Franklin, Senior Investment Manager, Mountain Funding LLC
  • Greg Greene, Senior Vice President, CBRE Capital Markets Group
  • Melissa Hicks, Senior Vice President, Texas Capital Bank
  • John A. Isakson, CEO, Williams Asset Management
  • Terry Kaufman, President, Rockhouse Capital, LLC
  • Jeffrey A. Lenobel, Partner and Chair of the Real Estate Department, Schulte Roth & Zabel
  • Howard Liggett, President, Distressed Real Estate Consulting Services, Inc.
  • Martin McFarland, Senior Vice President, Acquisition & Development, Weeks Robinson Properties
  • Tom McOsker, Head of Tax Receivables, GFI Group
  • Clifford Mendelson, CEO, Metropolis Capital Finance & Partner, The Goldstar Group
  • D. Rand Roan, Principal, Apogee Partners, LLC
  • Eli Shaashua, Managing Director, Red Granite Capital
  • Brian Shniderson, Managing Director, B&A Capital Partners
  • Chris Smith, Principal, Ivy Street Capital Management
  • Patrick Vedra, Managing Director, Carwin Advisors

These firms are sponsoring the Distressed Real Estate Summit – Texas:

B&A Capital

B&A Capital Partners is a DIRECT PRIVATE LENDER for non-institutional, short-term, commercial real estate transactions commonly referred to as Private Lending, Hard Money or Bridge Loans. Our primary focus is to provide financing for collateral-based, income producing opportunities that require immediate funding and will lend capital up to 65% of estimated value.

As a private money lender, B&A Capital Partners has the experience, flexibility and financial resources to offer financing options for virtually every product type. Our staff has the knowledge and experience to find creative solutions to even the most challenging real estate deals. We stand behind our reputation for speed, integrity, and our ability to fund deals with our own capital.

Commercial Asset Preservation

Commercial Asset Preservation, LLC (“CAP”) helps meet the growing need for a national provider of general maintenance, preservation and inspection services for abandoned and nearly vacant commercial and industrial real estate. CAP secures unprotected buildings. CAP ensures that vacant and abandoned properties retain value and don’t further deteriorate, become vandalized, or receive citations for their physical condition. CAP’s services include: boarding/securing, debris/hazard removal, cleaning/janitorial, extermination, winterization, HVAC maintenance, plumbing, electrical, roof maintenance, groundskeeping, parking lot maintenance, graffiti removal, environmental hazard testing/remediation, initial property inspection/evaluation, recurring property condition verification, property management, and other specialty services designed to meet your specific needs. CAP offers an efficient means of maintaining and protecting your distressed commercial properties in a cost-effective manner. Visit www.commercialpreservation.com for more information.

CPS Security

At CPS Security Solutions®, our success is based on a top management team with experience in Internet technology, security services marketing, communications, software development and program management. We have a capable, creative team with the vision and energy to effectively manage a growing company.

CPS is built on over 20 years of security experience from Construction Protective Services®. We understand the security business and the dynamics of the marketplace.

Headquartered in California, the company has over 2,500 employees working in over 18 offices across the United States including Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Nevada, North Carolina and Texas. CPS provides dependable, progressive and efficient security and remote management solutions supported by a state of the art Command Center, Video Management Systems, and high tech staff.

Ernst & Young

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.

GFI Tax Receivables

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.

Schulte Roth & Zabel

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.

These firms join over 120 firms that have sponsored GreenPearl Events in the last year. For more information on speaking and sponsorship opportunities, please contact our team:

David Karp / Dennis Riley / Paula Bartelli / David West
(646) 862-6136 x2
events@greenpearlevents.com

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