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Cadwalader Finance Forum 2018
Cadwalader hosted its third annual Finance Forum in Charlotte, North Carolina in October 2018, gathering more than 400 industry leaders in the asset-based lending, commercial real estate, fund finance and securitization markets for panel discussions covering opportunities and emerging trends in those areas.
Panel Topics
- A Rising Tide: Finance in an Era of Economic Growth and Rising Interest Rates
- Cannabis Banking – A Pipe Dream?: Issues in Cannabis Investing and Banking
- Challenges in Commercial Real Estate Lending: Where Do We Go From Here?
- CMBS – A Business Roundtable
- Commercial Real Estate CLOs: A Market Resurgence
- Current Trends in the Residential Mortgage and RMBS Markets
- Diversity Initiatives in Finance
- Financing the Financiers – Trends in CRE Warehouse and Repo Finance
- Fund Finance Market Update
- Lending Trends – Positives and Negatives
- Litigation and Enforcement Trends in the Financial Sector – 2018
- Private Equity Primary and Secondary Markets: Evolving Deal Structures and the Use of Leverage
- SASB Transactions: Lender, Borrower and Rating Agency Perspectives
- Trends in the BSL and Middle Market CLO and ABL Markets
- You Say Goodbye (LIBOR), I Say Hello (SOFR)
Featured Panelists
- Stefanos Arethas, Head of Origination, Credit Suisse
- Monty Bennett, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Ashford
- Nitin Bhasin, Senior Managing Director, KBRA
- Brad Boland, Managing Director, Wells Fargo
- Larry Brown, President, Starwood Mortgage Capital
- Leland Bunch, Managing Director, Bank of America
- Simon Burce, Vice President, JPMorgan
- Katrina Carroll, Executive Vice President and Chief Anti-Money Laundering Officer, LPL Financial
- Thomas Cassino, Executive Director, JPMorgan
- Meredith Coffey, Executive Vice President of Research & Regulation, LSTA
- Matthew Cohen, Principal, Mesa West Capital
- Doug Cooper, Managing Director, Barings
- Kevin Cowan, Managing Director, Wells Fargo
- Brian Drake, Senior Vice President, Talent Acquisition Manager, Wells Fargo
- Shaun Dreyer, Head of Loan Syndications, Wells Fargo
- William Duke, Managing Director, CIT Healthcare
- George Durban, Director, Wells Fargo
- Donald Frey, Finance Counsel, Simon Property Group
- Nicholas Galeone, Executive Director, UBS
- Micah Goodman, Managing Director, General Counsel, Benefit Street Partners
- Aisha Greene, Director of Attorney Development & Training, Cadwalader
- Peter Hall, Managing Director, Bank of America
- Bill Harrison, Managing Director, Head of Alternative Investments, TH Real Estate
- Lauren Hedvat, Managing Director, Angel Oak Capital Advisors
- Jack Hempling, Director, Credit Suisse
- Brad Horn, Executive Director, JPMorgan
- Scott Horton, Associate General Counsel, Global Head of Financial Crimes, AIG
- Jillian Joseph, Managing Director, Associate General Counsel, Nuveen
- Jack Kattan, Managing Director, Nomura Corporation
- Ari Kavour, Managing Director, Co-Head of Mortgage Finance, Wells Fargo
- Bryan Kearns, Managing Director, Bank of America
- Spencer Langston, Managing Director, Wells Fargo
- Chuck Lee, Head of CRE Securitization and Warehouse Finance, Credit Suisse
- Eric Lloyd, Head of Global Private Finance, Managing Director, Barings
- Jonathan Love, Managing Director, Wells Fargo
- Amit Mahajan, Managing Director, Crestline Investors
- Ray Meyer, Managing Director, Natixis
- Adrian Millan, Managing Director, Park Hill Group
- Matthew Nichols, Chief Executive Officer, Deephaven Mortgage
- Lisa Pendergast, Executive Director, CRE Finance Council
- Aseel Rabie, Managing Director and Associate General Counsel, SIFMA
- Frederick Reynolds, Managing Director, Global Head of Financial Crime Legal, Barclays
- John Rhee, Director, Wells Fargo
- Melissa Ricco, Managing Director, Barings
- Joseph Rocco, Managing Director, The Blackstone Group
- Mario Romine, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Turnberry Associates
- Daniel Rubock, Senior Vice President, Moody's
- Allen Shifflet, Managing Director, Bank of America
- Keri Shull, Managing Director, Fifth Third Bank
- Evan Sotiriou, Chief Financial Officer, OrbiMed Advisors
- Ryan Stark, Managing Director, Deutsche Bank
- Michael Ting, Senior Vice President, Greystone
- Mark Vitner, Senior Economist, Wells Fargo
- Tejal Wadhwani, Managing Director and Associate General Counsel, Goldman Sachs
- David Wasserman, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley
- Brennan Woods, Vice President, JPMorgan
- Adnan Zuberi, Managing Director Head of Credit Solutions & Global Head of CLOs, BNP Paribas
