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Cadwalader Finance Forum 2023
We invite you to join us for our annual Finance Forum.
We've taken this year's Finance Forum to a whole new level. In its 7th annual iteration, we're introducing an innovative format that will closely connect you with the thought leaders molding the financial landscape. Intimate fireside chat discussions will provide the opportunity to dive into the latest market trends in addition to a number of distinguished panels covering challenges and opportunities in commercial real estate, fund finance, leveraged finance, middle market lending, private credit, securitization and more.
Current panel topics include:
- Coming of Age: What’s Next for a Maturing Fund Finance Industry?
- What’s Really Going On: A Close Look at the CRE Market
- The Intersection of Traditional Banking and Private Credit
- The New Chapter in Fund Finance
- Market Update: Distressed CRE and Workout Trends
- A Conversation With the Chief Risk Officer
- Structured Finance Solutions for Fund Sponsors and LPs
- Sultans of Swing: What’s (and Who’s) Groovin’ in CMBS?
- Distressed Credit and Special Situations: Liability Management Transactions
- Not-So-Risky Business: Keys to the Effective Structuring of Capital Relief Trades
- Setting the C-Pace in the CRE Market
- Financing the Financiers: Bank Leverage of Private Credit Originators
- NAVer Fear: New Approaches in the NAV and Secondary Market
- Getting to Yes: Terms and Trends in CRE Lending
- All About the Assets: From Franchise Fees to Royalties to Infrastructure
A detailed schedule featuring our panel line-up and speakers is below. Please check back as we continue to add speakers.
Agenda
12:00 PM: Registration Opens - Urban Garden, Third Floor
12:30 PM: Program Begins
5:30 PM: Cocktail Reception - Urban Garden, Third Floor
Featured Panelists
John Albright
Managing Director
Wells Fargo Strategic Capital
Stefanos Arethas
Managing Director & Head of Commercial Real Estate
ATLAS SP Partners
Kevin Augustyn
Senior Vice President
DBRS Morningstar
Bradford Boland
Senior Managing Director
Huntington Bank
Matthew Brest
Managing Director
Blackstone
John Brown
Managing Director
The Carlyle Group
Leland F. Bunch, III
Managing Director, Real Estate Structured Finance
BofA Securities, Inc.
Scott Bynum
Managing Director and Senior Analyst
Mudrick Capital Management
Chris Campbell
Managing Director
Eastdil Secured
Brent Chase
Managing Director
Churchill Asset Management
Gary Curwin
Head of Large Loan Originations
Morgan Stanley
Lawrence Cyrlin
Managing Director, Structured Capital Markets
KKR & Co.
Bryan Darch
Senior Director, Debt Originations
Nuveen Real Estate
Rachel Davis
Senior Vice President - Partner Management & Originations
Petros PACE Finance
Jeremy Deutsch
Principal and Investment Professional
Neuberger Berman Private Equity
Missy Dolski
Global Head of Capital Markets
Värde Partners
Zoltan Donovan
Managing Director - Head of Restructuring & Special Situations
First Eagle Investment Management
Michael Dryden
Partner
Sixth Street
Aleksandr Epshteyn
Director – Tactical Situations Group
ATLAS SP Partners
Derek Flowers
Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Risk Officer
Wells Fargo
Alan George
Managing Director, Head of Structured Products
Golub Capital
Andie Goh
Managing Director
Ares Management
Sean Griffin
Managing Director
J.P. Morgan
Steve Johnson
Senior Director - Capital Solutions
Barings
Jeff Johnston
CoHead of Fund Finance
EverBank
Faisal Kassam
Managing Director, Head of ABS
Kuvare Insurance Services
Kevin Kelly
Assistant General Counsel
Simon Property Group
Terry Lanson
Managing Director
Seer Capital
Matthew Laurino
Principal
Blue Owl
Derek Li
Managing Director
Goldman Sachs
Parker McKee
Director
Société Générale
Charles Owens
Senior Managing Director
Huntington Bank
Seth Perlman
Executive Director
Morgan Stanley
Julia Powell
Director
ATLAS SP Partners
Kenneth Price
Senior Director, Private ABS
Nuveen Equities & Fixed Income
Harris Rendelstein
Executive Director – CMBS Capital Markets
J.P. Morgan
Pete Rogers
Managing Director
Citizens
Salina Sabri
Managing Director
Barclays
Allan Schmitt
Managing Director
Wells Fargo Securities
Lyndsay Stephenson
Managing Director - Credit and Underwriting
Prime Finance
Paul Vanderslice
Head of CMBS
Bank of Montreal
Michael Vasseghi
Head of Insurance Solutions
Morgan Stanley
Robert Verrone
Principal
Iron Hound
Scott Waynebern
President
Limekiln Real Estate
Brock Wolf
Managing Director and Head of ABS Banking
Truist
Dadong Yan
Head of Alternative Investment Solutions
MassMutual
