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Thursday, April 30th, 2026

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8:00 AM – 8:30AM: Registration & Networking Breakfast

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM: Opening Keynote

Speakers

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KEYNOTE

ROB VERRONE

Principal

Iron Hound

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MODERATOR

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Member

Cole Schotz P.C.

9:00 AM – 9:35 AM Market Outlook: Defining the Finance Landscape in 2026

Real estate has had to weather years of market turbulence and unprecedented disruption. 2025 was primed to be a year of stabilization and growth, but several unexpected macroeconomic and geopolitical changes demanded that even the savviest of dealmakers wield strong analytical skills, proactive risk management, and past cycle experience and knowledge. Join leading power players as they share their top lessons learned from the past year, forecasts for the year ahead, and strategies for staying ahead of the curve amid shifting market dynamics.

Speakers

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Managing Director, Real Estate Financing Group

Goldman Sachs

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Rebecca Bayard

Managing Director, Real Estate Financing Group, Goldman Sachs

Rebecca is a managing director in the Real Estate Financing Group, leading distribution efforts within capital markets and with prior experience across structuring and capital markets execution, as well as origination. She joined Goldman Sachs in 2022 as a vice president and was named managing director in 2025.n nPrior to joining the firm, Rebecca worked at Deutsche Bank focused on commercial real estate lending. Rebecca is an active member of CREFC, including the Women’s Network Leadership Committee – and the Women of RELA Leadership Committee.n nRebecca earned a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. She is a CFA Charterholder.n

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Managing Director, Head of Eastern Region Originations

ACORE CAPITAL

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Eric Ramirez

Managing Director, Head of Eastern Region Originations, ACORE CAPITAL

Eric Ramirez is a Managing Director and Head of Eastern Region Originations at ACORE CAPITAL, responsible for sourcing, underwriting, structuring and executing real estate debt investment opportunities. Before joining ACORE CAPITAL, Eric helped start IH Capital’s CMBS platform and was involved with over $1.5 billion in originations over a 2-year period. Prior to his role at IH Capital, Eric was a Vice President in Wells Fargo’s Large Loan Real Estate Capital Markets Group. His responsibilities included loan sizing, underwriting, closing and disposition of CMBS loans into the secondary market. In his four years at Wells Fargo, Eric was involved in over $5.0 billion worth of CMBS transactions and over $500 million of balance sheet loans. Eric holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Drew University.

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Vice Chairman, Global Debt & Structured Finance

Newmark

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Nick Scribani

Vice Chairman, Global Debt u0026amp; Structured Finance, Newmark

Nick Scribani is Vice Chairman of Newmark’s Global Debt u0026amp; Structured Finance Group, where he oversees the platform’s capital raising initiatives and manages a team of more than 30 real estate professionals. In his capacity, Scribani leads the origination, facilitation and execution of financing and capital placement mandates on behalf of the industry’s most prominent institutional and private real estate investors and operators. nnWhile at the firm, Scribani has executed more than $250 billion in transactions spanning a wide range of asset types, such as office, residential, hospitality, retail, industrial, digital infrastructure and alternatives. Well-versed in structured finance, his expertise spans the full life cycle of a transaction, including pre-development, construction, value-add and stabilized assets.nnIn addition to his transactional responsibilities, Scribani plays a central leadership role within the team. He is frequently sought out for deal strategy discussions and operates as a player-coach, reinforcing a culture rooted in accountability, disciplined execution and talent development across the platform.nnPrior to Newmark, Scribani held roles at Citigroup and GE Capital Real Estate Group, where he gained experience across asset management, underwriting and debt origination.n

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Managing Director & Investment Officer

Invesco Real Estate

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Yorick Starr

Managing Director u0026amp; Investment Officer, Invesco Real Estate

Yorick Starr is a Managing Director and Investment Officer at Invesco Real Estate. Yorick is responsible for originating senior and mezzanine loans for the commercial real estate credit lines of business a primary focus on the Northeast and Eastern US. Yorick began his investment career in 2002 and joined Invesco Real Estate in 2017. Prior to joining Invesco, he was a senior vice president of the commercial real estate group at Wells Fargo based in New York, where he was responsible for managing a team of relationship managers focused on institutional clients, overseeing originations, portfolio management and day-to-day operations of the office. Yorick spent over 15 years at Wells Fargo in a variety positions, including acquiring and financing sub-performing and performing commercial real estate loan portfolios, managing commercial real estate loan workouts and working within a specialty finance group. Yorick earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of San Diego with minors in accounting and computer science.

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MODERATOR

jay neveloff

Partner, Chair of Real Estate, US

HSF Kramer

9:35 AM – 10:10 AM: Pivoting in a Changing Market: Staying the Course from Stability Through Volatility

After a long-awaited period, major market players are coming off the sidelines and leaning into more favorable economic conditions. As the commercial real estate market moves from volatility to greater stability, lenders and borrowers are recalibrating their strategies, loan terms, pricing and risk tolerance. Hear how lenders are assessing risk and returns, and what borrowers need to win capital as the market once again shifts among renewed stability, and how much of an impact lingering uncertainty still has.

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Managing Director, Head of Real Estate Syndications

City National Bank, an RBC Company

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Carina Kalaw

Managing Director, Head of Real Estate Syndications, City National Bank, an RBC Company

Carina is a 25+ year banking professional with extensive experience in real estate originations, fund finance, REIT finance, real estate capital markets, loan syndications, healthcare real estate and real estate investment banking. Currently, she is the Head of Real Estate Syndications at City National Bank, an RBC Company. She has a proven track record of establishing and building loan syndication platforms for several financial institutions including BankUnited, Capital One and WestImmo (WestLB) as well as originating and structuring large and complex syndicated loan transactions for REITs, REOCs, Real Estate Funds, Real Estate Private Equity, Real Estate Private Credit, and private owners and developers. Previous stints include: Societe Generale, Eurohypo AG, Fleet Securities (BofA), UBS and Chase (JPM).

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Managing Director

Colliers Capital Markets

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Dylan Kane

Managing Director, Colliers Capital Markets

Dylan Kane is a Managing Director in the Capital Markets group at Colliers in New York and is recognized as one of the firm’s top producers. He advises leading developers, financial institutions, and family offices on complex debt and equity financings across asset classes, with experience spanning origination, underwriting, and execution in both principal and advisory roles. In 2025, he was named to Commercial Observer’s Power 100 list. His prior experience includes Newmark, where his nationally ranked team arranged more than $20 billion of financings and he was recognized as a National Rising Star and one of Commercial Observer’s Top 25 Debt u0026amp; Equity Professionals Under 35, Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Real Estate Structured Finance group, and B6 Real Estate Advisors, where he was the firm’s top capital advisory producer and was named a Top Mortgage Broker by Connect CRE. Mr. Kane earned a B.A. from Middlebury College, where he served as Captain of the Varsity Baseball Team and received College Scholar distinction. He is a native of Port Washington, New York.

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Managing Director

InterVest Capital Partners

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Robert Rothschild

Managing Director, InterVest Capital Partners

Robert is a Managing Director and a member of InterVest’s investment committee. Rob leads the firm’s real estate debt and equity investment programs. Prior to joining InterVest in 2014, Rob worked at Pensam Capital, LLC. He received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance with a minor in Psychology from the University of Miami.

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President

Safehold Inc.

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Michael Trachtenberg

President, Safehold Inc.

Michael Trachtenberg serves as Safehold’s President. He joins Safehold from Lubert-Adler, where he most recently served as President. He was a key member of the firm’s senior leadership team involved in a wide range of real estate initiatives, including new investments, portfolio management, investor engagement and key operational functions. During his nearly 20 years at Lubert-Adler, Mr. Trachtenberg invested across many major United States real estate markets and asset classes, including multifamily, retail, hotel and mixed-use properties. He was instrumental in structuring complex joint ventures, recapitalizations and portfolio acquisitions. Prior to joining Lubert-Adler in 2005, Mr. Trachtenberg worked as an analyst at Merrill Lynch, where he gained experience in real estate finance, capital markets and structured transactions. He graduated from New York University’s Stern School of Business with a B.S. in Accounting and Finance.

Aron Zuckerman National Finance Forum Agenda

MODERATOR

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Partner

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

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Aron M. Zuckerman

Partner, Simpson Thacher u0026amp; Bartlett LLP

Aron Zuckerman is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Real Estate Practice. He represents clients including credit funds, banks, insurance companies, private equity firms and other institutional lenders in a wide variety of commercial real estate financing transactions. Aron has advised institutional lenders of all types and sizes including Cerberus, Corebridge Financial, Goldman Sachs, Grupo Financiero Inbursa, KKR, KSL Capital Partners, Makarora, Manulife, Sixth Street, The Carlyle Group and Wells Fargo. His experience includes advising on mortgage and mezzanine financings, preferred equity structures, A/B notes, participation interests, note-on-note and repo financing facilities, co-lender and intercreditor arrangements and multi-tranche workouts and restructurings. His experience spans CMBS, balance sheet, bridge and construction loans across all major asset classes. Aron is recognized among The Legal 500 U.S. Next Generation Partners, Real Estate Finance and in Chambers USA, Real Estate: Finance (New York). Aron received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2011 and his B.A. from Yeshiva University in 2004, magna cum laude. He is admitted to practice in New York.

10:10 AM – 10:30 AM : Networking Break

10:30 AM – 10:55 AM: Keynote Session

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KEYNOTE

KARA MCSHANE

Managing Director, EVP and Head of Commercial Real Estate (CRE) 

Wells Fargo

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Kara McShane

Managing Director, EVP and Head of Commercial Real Estate (CRE), Wells Fargo

Kara McShane is an executive vice president at Wells Fargo, and head of the Commercial Real Estate (CRE) division within Wells Fargo’s Corporate u0026amp; Investment Banking organization. Kara oversees CRE’s fully integrated platform of banking, financing, capital markets, and servicing solutions for commercial real estate companies. The full suite of CRE products includes balance sheet lending, securitization, origination and distribution (CMBS and CRE CLOs), loan and securities financing, loan syndications, global payments and liquidity, debt and equity for the affordable housing industry, and GSE/Agency financing for multifamily assets. CRE lends throughout the United States as well as in Canada, the United Kingdom, and parts of Europe. Kara has more than 30 years of financial services experience. Since joining Wells Fargo in 2010, she has held a number of senior leadership positions, including head of Structured Real Estate and head of Commercial Real Estate Capital Markets u0026amp; Finance before assuming the role of head of CRE in 2020. Kara serves on the Wells Fargo Management Committee, the Corporate u0026amp; Investment Banking Operating Committee, the Board of the Wells Fargo Foundation, and the Board of Wells Fargo Securities. She is based in New York City. Prior to her time at Wells Fargo, Kara was a managing director at Morgan Stanley and held various leadership roles, including head of Securitized Products Group Capital Markets, co-head of Commercial Real Estate Capital Markets u0026amp; Trading, and head of CMBS Capital Markets. Kara also held positions as a fixed income portfolio manager and trader responsible for the commercial real estate sector at AllianceBernstein, where she managed CMBS and REIT debt. Previously, Kara was a partner at Sanford C. Bernstein u0026amp; Co., where she was a fixed income portfolio manager and trader. As an active member of the industry and community, Kara currently serves on the board of Breaking Ground, a leading NYC nonprofit for supportive and affordable housing. Kara also sits on the Board of Directors of The Real Estate Roundtable, and the Board of Governors for REBNY. Her prior board seats include the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Commercial Real Estate/Multifamily Finance Board of Governors (COMBOG) and the Policy Advisory Board for The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. She was also a founding member and served on the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council (CREFC) Women’s Network Advisory Board after previously serving on the Board of Governors of CREFC’s predecessor, the Commercial Mortgage Securities Association. Kara received her A.B. in economics from Duke University and her M.B.A. in finance and management from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.

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MODERATOR

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Partner & Global Head of Real Estate Practice Group

Sidley Austin LLP

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Bonnie A. Neuman

Partner u0026amp; Global Head of Real Estate Practice Group, Sidley Austin LLP

Bonnie Neuman is the leader of Sidley’s global Real Estate practice. She represents lenders in high-value, complex financing transactions, particularly within the real estate and hospitality sectors. Her practice encompasses a wide range of financial instruments, including securitized financings, mortgage and mezzanine loans, construction loans, and revolving credit facilities. Bonnie’s clients are typically major financial institutions acting as lenders and administrative agents involved in substantial transactions, such as the acquisition, refinancing, and restructuring of prominent properties and portfolios. Her work includes financing of luxury hotels, office buildings, resorts, data centers, industrial properties, and mixed-use developments located in key markets and major cities across the United States and internationally. Her work also involves high-profile deals in the hospitality industry, including large-scale hotel chains and resorts. Bonnie’s experience includes the financing of a wide range of commercial properties, ranging from single trophy assets, pooled portfolios, multiuse projects, and whole-company transactions to transitional properties and development projects. Her work extends to both domestic and cross-border transactions, ensuring comprehensive legal support for clients operating on a global scale. In addition, Bonnie has experience in the drafting and negotiating of intercreditor and co-lender arrangements and secondary market sales of mortgage and mezzanine loans. Bonnie is ranked by Chambers USA in New York for Real Estate: Finance (2022–2025), was named Real Estate “MVP” by Law360, which previously named her a 2022 Hospitality “MVP” and has been awarded numerous other recognitions. Prior to joining Sidley, Bonnie led the Real Estate Finance group of another global law firm.

10:55 AM – 11:30 AM: The New Crown Jewels: Where Capital is Converging Across Asset Classes

Which asset classes are capturing investor attention in 2026 and why? There’s an emerging, next-gen class of industries attracting capital, but are they a passing fad or will they lead the pipeline in 2026? From highly capitalized asset classes like data centers, powered land, and multifamily housing to those that are seeing renewed investor and lender interest like office and retail, get inside intel on which industries are being crowned as the most ripe for ROI, and which are pulling in the greatest deal volume.

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Founder & Managing Partner

Arrow Real Estate Advisors

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Morris Betesh

Founder u0026amp; Managing Partner, Arrow Real Estate Advisors

Morris Betesh is the Founder and Managing Partner of Arrow Real Estate Advisors, where he leads a team of professionals, specializing in sourcing debt and equity for developers nationwide. With two decades of experience in the real estate industry, Morris has a remarkable track record of successful transactions. He has financed over 1,000 buildings across the United States, closing more than $20 billion in financings throughout his career. Before founding Arrow Real Estate Advisors, Morris was Senior Managing Director at Meridian Capital Group for more than seven years. He also served as a Director at Cushman u0026amp; Wakefield and a Director of Capital Services at Massey Knakal Realty Services. Outside of his professional accomplishments, Morris lives in Midwood, Brooklyn with his wife and four children. The family is actively involved in their community, and in his free time, Morris enjoys skiing, surfing, and playing the drums.n

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Senior Managing Director

Cooper Horowitz

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Managing Director, Head of Originations

Nuveen Green Capital

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Chris Lawton

Managing Director, Head of Originations, Nuveen Green Capital

Chris Lawton is Managing Director, Head of Originations for Nuveen Green Capital – a leading provider of sustainable commercial real estate finance. With over 20 years of experience in commercial real estate structured finance, Chris leads NGC’s growth and originations strategies – with focus on C-PACEn(Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy) deal structuring and lending.nnPrior to NGC, Chris was with Bank OZK (formerly Bank of the Ozarks), where he was Managing Director of Northeast Originations for the bank’s Real Estate Specialties Group in New York City. In his time withnBank OZK, Chris closed over $8 billion of construction and bridge facilities, formed the bank’s life-sciencenlending program, and built the bank’s loan portfolio in Boston and Philadelphia.nnBefore joining Bank OZK, Chris was a Director in the New York office of Frankfurt, Germany-based DekaBank, where, in 2009, he helped establish the bank’s first U.S. office. From 2004 to 2009, he was with Hypo Real Estate Capital where he originated, structured, and closed over $4 billion of senior and mezzanine commercial real estate financings. Chris began his real estate career in 2003 as an Analyst with CBRE Capital Markets.nnChris graduated with a B.S in Business from Miami University and an M.S. in Real Estate from New York University.

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Head of CMBS Originations

BMO Capital Markets

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Paul Vanderslice

Head of CMBS Originations, BMO Capital Markets

Paul Vanderslice is head of the CMBS Origination Group at BMO Capital Markets, having started the group in 2021. For most of his career Paul was co-head of the CMBS Group at Citi where he worked fornover 30 years. He was also the CEO of CCRE’s CMBS group from 2018-2020 which became a Top 10 Issuer of CMBS under his leadership.nnAs part of the Securitized Products group at BMO, Paul runs BMO the loan origination and securitization efforts for Conduit, SASB and Agency CMBS transactions.nnPaul is active in CREFC, the industry’s most visible trade association; having served as its President in 2012/2013 and is currently on the Board of Governors. He is also a member of The Rea Estate Roundtable in Washington, DC.nnPaul has an undergraduate degree in Accounting from Boston College and an MBA in Finance and Management from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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MODERATOR

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Vice Chair of Real Estate Practice and Co-Chair of the Real Estate Finance Group

Cozen O’Connor

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Bill Davis

Vice Chair of Real Estate Practice and Co-Chair of the Real Estate Finance Group, Cozen O'Connor

Bill is a real estate attorney with more than two decades of experience. He serves as vice chair of Cozen O’Connor’s Real Estate Practice and co-chair of the Real Estate Finance group, and has established himself as a leader in New York’s real estate bar.n nBill focuses on real estate financings and loan transactions on behalf of sophisticated lenders, including institutional investors, nationally recognized banks, real estate investment trusts, and real estate funds. He structures and negotiates workouts, bridge loans, construction loans, securitized conduit lending programs, and sale leaseback portfolio transactions.n nOver his career, Bill has helped lenders successfully navigate multiple down cycles, from the 2008 financial crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic, and has accrued deep experience with distressed real estate. Bill leads foreclosures, real estate bankruptcies, loan modifications, debt restructuring, forbearance agreements, and rescue capital strategies.n

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM: Temperature Check: Lender Preferences & Dynamics

Join this deep-dive conversation detailing lender sentiment as caution fades and confidence strengthens. How are lender-borrower dynamics shifting in a more competitive environment? What opportunities and constraints are borrowers facing? Hear what lenders are prioritizing, how they’re structuring deals, where they’re allocating capital, and how they’re managing risk in today’s market.

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Managing Director, Commercial Real Estate Debt Group

Apollo Global Management Inc.

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Catherine Chen

Managing Director, Commercial Real Estate Debt Group, Apollo Global Management

Catherine Chen is a Managing Director in Apollo’s Real Assets – Commercial Real Estate Lending group where she is responsible for the origination, structuring and execution of commercial real estate debt investments. Since joining Apollo in 2013, Ms. Chen has led investments on a wide range of credit opportunities ranging from first mortgages, B-notes, mezzanine and preferred equity and covering all asset types. Prior to joining Apollo in 2013, Ms. Chen was a Vice President in the Commercial Real Estate Lending group at Morgan Stanley where she was involved in all facets of commercial mortgage origination, securitization, underwriting and syndication. During her tenure at Morgan Stanley, Ms. Chen also worked in Institutional Sales and Trading Management, assisting in the management of the global equities and fixed income divisions. nnMs. Chen graduated with an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BS in Business Administration and a BA in Economics from the University of California – Berkeley. Ms. Chen is a career advisor at the Columbia Business School Career Management Center and an active member of CRE Finance Council, ULI – Urban Development and Mixed-Use Council (Green), and WX New York Women Executives in Real Estate. n

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Senior Managing Director

IPA Capital Markets

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Marko Kazanjian

Senior Managing Director, IPA Capital Markets, NYC u0026amp; Miami

Marko Kazanjian is an industry-leading capital markets professional, recognized on Commercial Observer’s Top 50 u0022Power Financeu0022 list (2026), Globe St.’s u0022Rainmaker in CRE Debt, Equity u0026amp; Financeu0022 (2026) — bringing over fifteen years of experience structuring and executing complex debt and equity transactions for institutional and private real estate sponsors.nnMarko has arranged several billions of dollars across senior loans, bridge and construction financing, mezzanine debt, preferred equity, JV equity, recapitalizations, note-on-note financing, and other structured solutions spanning multifamily, industrial, retail, office, hospitality, and land, with a focus on customized structures and reliable execution on highly nuanced assignments.nnSince joining IPA Capital Markets, he has played a leading role in expanding the firm’s New York and Miami platforms, scaling headcount, deepening institutional relationships, and building a bi-market advisory practice serving major sponsors nationwide. Within the first two years, the team closed more than $3.5B in financing across 20+ states, including large construction loans, portfolio refinancings, note financings, subordinate debt placements, and equity capitalizations.nnPrior to IPA, Marko spent nearly a decade at JLL as a Managing Director, originating and executing assignments across banks, debt funds, life companies, balance-sheet lenders, and institutional equity partners. He began his career at Meridian Capital and has held leadership roles with ICSC Next Gen and the Young Mortgage Bankers Association, with earlier accolades including Commercial Observer’s u0022Top Young Professionals Under 35u0022 (2019) and a YMBA u0022Up and Comeru0022 (2016).n

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Managing Director & Real Estate Financing

Goldman Sachs

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Partner

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

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Joe Lanzkron

Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen u0026amp; Hamilton LLP

Joe Lanzkron’s practice focuses on real estate transactions. Joe has a broad range of experience representing lenders and borrowers in various real estate financings across multiple property types, including CMBS, balance sheet loans and loan on loan facilities. Joe also regularly advises high-profile clients, including investment banks, private equity funds, asset managers and sovereign wealth funds, on complex real estate acquisitions, dispositions, and joint ventures. His experience also includes significant restructurings and workouts, including through bankruptcy. Joe holds a B.S. from Touro College and a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School.

12:00 PM – 12:30 PM: Closing Keynote

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Senior Managing Director, Capital Markets and Co-Head of Institutional Advisory

Walker & Dunlop

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Sean Reimer

Senior Managing Director, Capital Markets and Co-Head of Institutional Advisory, Walker u0026amp; Dunlop

Sean Reimer is a senior managing director of Capital Markets and co-head of Institutional Advisory at Walker u0026amp; Dunlop and is based in New York, New York. In this role, Reimer focuses on sourcing and structuring debt and equity solutions across all commercial real estate asset classes nationwide and has more than 13 years of principal-side investment experience in both debt and equity transactions. As part of this platform, Walker u0026amp; Dunlop’s Institutional Advisory team has arranged or advised on more than $40 billion in transactions since 2020.n nPrior to joining Walker u0026amp; Dunlop, Reimer served as a principal at Square Mile Capital Management, where he led the firm’s highest-producing origination team and originated more than $8 billion in debt and equity transactions, resulting in more than $2 billion of retained principal investments by the firm. Before that, he served as a director at Cantor Fitzgerald in the firm’s CMBS lending group. Earlier in his career, he was a partner at RL Realty Partners and a senior financial analyst at CBRE.n nReimer earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial and operations engineering from the University of Michigan, graduating magna cum laude.

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MODERATOR

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Partner

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

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Noam Haberman

Partner, Gibson Dunn u0026amp; Crutcher

Noam I. Haberman is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn u0026amp; Crutcher and a member of Gibson Dunn’s Real Estate Practice Group.nnNoam’s practice is focused on commercial real estate finance. He represents banks and funds as lenders on the structuring and origination and purchase and sale of balance sheet loans and other financing instruments across all real estate asset classes. He has extensive experience in structuring and negotiating complex financing arrangements for loans that present underwriting challenges. In addition, Noam has significant experience working out individual loans and entire capital structures for both lenders and borrowers as well as exercising remedies on behalf of lenders and counseling borrowers through insolvency proceedings.nnNoam is ranked as a leading lawyer for real estate in New York by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. Chambers describes Noam as a “tremendous” and “phenomenally intelligent and thoughtful lawyer” and notes “his negotiation skills are second to none” and “he has a great sense of the market and a deep understanding of distressed lending situations.” He is ranked as a leading lawyer in The Legal 500 US for Real Estate Finance, by GlobeSt. Real Estate Forum as one of its 50 Under 40 in the commercial real estate industry, by Lawdragon in its 500 Leading Global Real Estate Lawyers list, and by Crain’s New York as a “Rising Star in Real Estate.”nnNoam received his Juris Doctor in 2008 from New York University, where he served as an Articles Editor of the Journal of Legislation and Public Policy. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, in Political Science in 2005 from New York University. He is fluent in Hebrew.

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ACORE CAPITAL, LP is a leading U.S. commercial real estate debt investment manager with approximately $18 billion of assets under management. ACORE CAPITAL is a member of the Tokio Marine Group, Japan’s largest non-life insurer and one of the world’s top tier global insurance groups. Based in New York, with offices in Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, and Dallas, ACORE CAPITAL originates, acquires, and manages first mortgages, B notes, mezzanine debt, and preferred equity. ACORE CAPITAL’s success has been fueled by its long-standing industry relationships and access to a consistent pipeline of origination opportunities. For more information, please visit www.acorecapital.com.

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Arrow Real Estate Advisors is a leading capital markets advisory platform specializing in tailored real estate financing solutions for owners, investors, and developers throughout the United States. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in New York City, Arrow leverages a deep network of capital providers to source and structure debt and equity financing across all major property types, including industrial, multifamily, office, retail, hospitality, mixed-use, and special-purpose assets.

Arrow’s team is led by seasoned industry professionals with decades of collective experience in commercial real estate finance. The firm is built on a client-centric ethos that emphasizes strategic thinking, market insight, and results-driven execution, ensuring capital solutions that align with each sponsor’s operational goals and risk profile. Whether arranging permanent mortgages, acquisition and construction financing, refinancing, or joint venture equity, Arrow’s advisors deliver customized strategies backed by rigorous underwriting and deep lender relationships.

With a nationwide footprint, Arrow operates with the agility of a boutique advisory platform and the reach of an established national firm. Its professionals draw on a broad spectrum of market intelligence and capital sources, from regional banks and life companies to debt funds and institutional lenders, to navigate complex capital markets landscapes and secure optimal outcomes for clients.

Committed to excellence and long-term partnerships, Arrow Real Estate Advisors continues to build on its early success, expanding its team and enhancing its capabilities to meet the evolving needs of today’s real estate investors and developers.

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Cleary Gottlieb’s real estate practice, ranked as one of the foremost in the United States, is diversified and global, encompassing the full range of transaction types, regions, and asset classes to represent clients in all facets of commercial real estate transactions. Our clients span all sectors of the real estate industry, including commercial lenders, sources of private credit, investors, funds, sovereigns and sovereign wealth funds, developers, and operators.

Our practice has vast experience in pioneering cutting-edge financing strategies for our clients. We engage in all major aspects of commercial real estate finance, including secured loans for commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS), mezzanine and preferred equity financings, loan syndications, construction, bridge and development loans, loan restructurings and workouts, property foreclosures and deed-in-lieu transactions, and loan-on-loan, warehousing, and repurchase facilities.

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Cole Schotz P.C. is a national law firm dedicated to helping you navigate your most complex legal challenges with clarity, confidence, and results. For a century, you have relied on us as trusted partners, delivering sophisticated legal counsel grounded in practical business judgment and a deep commitment to service.

At Cole Schotz, lawyering is our art—and you benefit from it. You work with a team of more than 200 attorneys, a carefully curated collection of top legal talent collaborating to bring you depth of experience, strategic insight, and creative problem-solving shaped to serve your goals. We work alongside you as trusted advisors, taking the time to understand your objectives, your industry, and your risk profile so we can develop strategies that are tailored, effective, and forward-thinking.

Whether you are building, investing, restructuring, litigating, or protecting what you have created, you benefit from our attorneys’ sound judgment and decisive advocacy. Our multidisciplinary platform allows us to support you across the full spectrum of your legal needs, including complex litigation, real estate and real estate special opportunities, bankruptcy and corporate restructuring, corporate transactions, construction, employment, intellectual property, tax, trusts and estates. By leveraging the collective strength of our team, you receive seamless, coordinated solutions designed to address both immediate challenges and long-term objectives.

With offices across New Jersey, New York, Delaware, Maryland, Texas, Florida, and Washington, D.C., you gain the reach of a national firm combined with the responsiveness of a close-knit legal team—so you can move forward with confidence.

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Gibson Dunn is a leading global law firm with 2,200 lawyers in 22offices around the world. Our exceptional teams craft and deploy creative legal strategies that are meticulously tailored to every matter, however complex or high-stakes. Our market-leading real estate finance team is the “go-to” practice for dozens of premiere CMBS and balance sheet lending platforms of all kinds – banks, investment funds, insurance companies and other alternative credit providers. The team draws upon our unparalleled market presence and experience to ensure that our clients are ahead of the curve on any issue.

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invesco real estate

Invesco Ltd. (Ticker NYSE: IVZ) is a global independent investment management firm
dedicated to delivering an investment experience that helps people get more out of life. Our distinctive investment teams deliver a comprehensive range of active, passive, and alternative investment capabilities. With offices in more than 20 countries, Invesco manages US$2.1 trillion (as of September 30, 2025) in assets on behalf of clients worldwide.

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safehold inc.

Safehold Inc. (NYSE: SAFE) is revolutionizing real estate ownership by providing a new and better way for owners to unlock the value of the land beneath their buildings. Having created the modern ground lease industry in 2017, Safehold continues to help owners of high quality multifamily, affordable housing, office, industrial, hospitality, student housing, life science and mixed-use properties generate higher returns with less risk. The company seeks to deliver safe, growing income and long-term capital appreciation to its shareholders.

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Sidley is an elite global law firm. With approximately 2,300 lawyers and 160 years of experience, we have established a reputation for deploying innovative legal strategies to achieve powerful results for our clients in complex transactional, restructuring, crisis management, investigation, regulatory, and litigation matters.

Our perspective and reach are truly global, supported by 21 offices strategically situated in key commercial, regulatory, and financial centers across the world. Our lawyers and business professionals, fluent in more than 75 languages, possess the cultural awareness and cross-border legal acumen needed to bring clarity to a dynamic business landscape.

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simpson thacher & bartlett llp

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP offers one of the most sophisticated and diversified real estate practices among major law firms, consistently delivering premier service across the full spectrum of real estate matters. With over 140 real estate attorneys worldwide, the Firm’s capabilities cover all facets of the industry, including mergers and acquisitions of public and private companies, portfolio and single asset transactions, real estate financings, real estate development, joint ventures, preferred equity investments, restructurings, work outs and debt acquisitions. Our practice and lawyers have been consistently recognized by leading legal publications and directories, including Chambers and Partners, Law360, and the Legal 500.

Simpson Thacher represents a diverse array of clients—from private equity sponsors and real estate opportunity funds to public companies, REITs, institutional lenders and investment banks. Supporting clients throughout the entire lifecycle of their real estate investments, the Firm provides strategic counsel to our clients in every role they may take on, including purchaser, investor, borrower, lender, owner, operator and issuer, across all major asset classes. Trusted by many of the world’s leading private equity and real estate investors—including Apollo, Blackstone, Carlyle, Centerbridge, Cerberus, EQT, KKR, KSL Capital Partners, Northwood Investors, Sterling Investors, Stonepeak and Town Lane—Simpson Thacher has advised on many of the most significant real estate transactions in the market.

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starwood property trust

Starwood Property Trust (NYSE: STWD), an affiliate of global private investment firm Starwood Capital Group, is a leading diversified finance company with a core focus on the real estate and infrastructure sectors. As of September 30, 2025, the Company has successfully deployed over $112 billion of capital since inception and manages a portfolio of over $30 billion across debt and equity investments. Starwood Property Trust’s investment objective is to generate attractive and stable returns for shareholders, primarily through dividends, by leveraging a premiere global organization to identify and execute on the best risk adjusted returning investments across its target assets. Additional information can be found at www.starwoodpropertytrust.com.

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TYKO Capital

TYKO Capital (“TYKO”) is a multi-billion-dollar Commercial Real Estate Private Equity and Private Credit Investment Management Platform, which is a joint venture between Adi Chugh & a Florida based hedge fund. TYKO was established in August 2023 to capitalize on the void in the CRE capital markets caused by the current macro-economic environment, focusing on institutional borrowers and institutional assets, in top tier markets. TYKO’s focus and reach in the CRE space is unique, given the firm’s proprietary deal sourcing capabilities and ability to commit large amounts of capital to institutional deals.

TYKO invests across the entire capital stack (Senior Financings, Whole Loan Financings, Junior / Mezz, Pref Equity, LP Equity, GP Equity) — and across all asset classes.

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walker & dunlop

Walker & Dunlop (NYSE: WD) is one of the largest commercial real estate finance and advisory services firms in the United States and internationally. Our ideas and capital create communities where people live, work, shop, and play. Our innovative people, breadth of our brand, and our technological capabilities make us one of the most insightful and client-focused firms in the commercial real estate industry.

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Yardi develops and supports industry-leading real estate investment and property management software for all types and sizes of organizations around the globe. The Yardi Investment Suite delivers products that optimize the investment management lifecycle —acquisitions/dispositions, fundraising, investor relations, capital investment, debt management, accounting and reporting, performance measurement and more in a single connected solution. Yardi automates complex ownership structures and investment management processes and provides full transparency from the investor to the investment to the asset. Real Estate Investments grow on Yardi. For more information, visit yardiinvestmentsuite.com.