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This week, over a thousand industry participants made their way through a rain soaked Manhattan for the start of CREFC’s Annual Conference. The low hum of attendees taking conference calls in corners and tapping messages on iphones provided a constant auditory backdrop to the event and aptly conveyed the velocity of the CMBS industry in 2013. The market is back to work.Continue Reading Stormy Skies Greet Sunny Outlook at CREFC 2013

Next week, hundreds of industry participants will make their way to New York for CREFC’s Annual Conference.

The conference promises to provide a forum to explore present and future market trends in commercial real estate, as well as an opportunity to gain valuable insight from many leaders in the market as to where we are and where we are headed. With panels such as “Lend-sanity: Competition Between Balance Sheet and Conduit Lenders” and “Borrowers: Is it their Game Now?”, it is clear there is no shortage of activity in commercial real estate, and there shouldn’t be any shortage of interest in this forum. The conference’s keynote address will come from Blackstone’s Global Head of Real Estate, Jonathon Gray, who will be sure to offer a unique viewpoint of the current and future landscape of real estate investments. Continue Reading CREFC Returns to the Big Apple

The Miami Heat’s home playoff games are not going to be the only events drawing attention to sunny Miami next week as IMN hosts its annual REO-to-Rental Forum in Miami. As we have previously discussed numerous times (here, here and here, and OnPoint Updates here and here), the REO-to-Rental asset class has become quite a hot topic and this conference is sure to provide invaluable insight into current trends in the market, as well as where market participants see this class of assets going over the near- and far-term.Continue Reading IMN’s REO-to-Rental Forum 2013: Welcome to Miami

The second annual IMN CLO and Leveraged Loan Conference returned to New York this past week. Building on last year’s momentum (discussed here), over 1,500 managers and investors, in addition to structurers, bankers, lawyers and other industry actors, filled the convention space at the Conrad Hotel, doubling last year’s attendance and causing standing room only conditions in the large downtown venue. Yes, many conference attendees were literally prevented by conference staff from entering the fully packed Conrad ballrooms.Continue Reading Second Annual IMN CLO and Leveraged Loan Conference Update

Last week, we and a few of our colleagues here at Dechert attended CREFC’s 2013 Distressed Debt Summit. Echoing the mood at January’s CREFC conference, the mood at the NY Athletic Club last week was upbeat about the CMBS market as a whole but the general sentiment, with respect to the distressed debt market, is that good deals (in other words, deals worth making) are harder and harder to come by.Continue Reading Reflections on the 2013 CREFC Distressed Debt Summit

Dechert’s securitization team is looking forward to the American Securitization Forum 2013 (“ASF 2013”) conference starting this Sunday, as it is expected to be once again the largest capital markets conference in the world. ASF 2013 is expecting over 4,500 participants who will all convene at the Aria Hotel and Convention Center in fabulous Las Vegas.Continue Reading ASF 2013 (“Viva Las Vegas”)

After a night of fun at Dechert’s party at the SLS Hotel, many of us needed a pick-me-up on Tuesday morning. Those of us that dragged ourselves out of bed and into the roundtable discussion on market issues and opportunities were not disappointed. The quick hitting discussion by over two dozen industry insiders, including Crunched Credit’s own Rick Jones, provided no lack of entertainment or insight into the current state of the industry.Continue Reading CREFC Day 2: Riding the Wave

The Loews Hotel buzzed with optimism on the first day of the CREFC January conference, as over 1,300 attendees descended on South Beach.  After catching up with many friends, the Monday morning session began with lively meetings of the Agency Investors Forum, the High Yield and Investment Forum, the Issuers Forum and the Portfolio Lenders Forum.  Panelists at the forums expressed a general sense of optimism for 2013 and expect the general market trends of 2012 to continue into 2013.Continue Reading Day 1: CREFC Sizzles on South Beach

South Beach will welcome over 1200 lenders, borrowers, servicers, lawyers and other service providers to the January 2013 CREFC Conference for another party in the city where the heat is on. The conference kicks off on Monday with a series of forums for agency investors, high yield debt investors, issuers, portfolio lenders, servicers, B-Piece buyers and IG bondholders. The featured speaker Monday afternoon will be David Malpass, the president of Encima Global, an economic research and consulting firm serving institutional investors and corporate clients.Continue Reading January Conference 2013: CREFC’s Going to Miami