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Sponsorship Guide

Partner Sponsor

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Dechert LLP

A global specialist law firm focused on sectors with the greatest complexities and highest regulatory demands, Dechert delivers practical commercial insight and deep legal expertise for our clients’ most important matters. Our finance lawyers represent major industry players in structuring, securitizing, managing and servicing complex and highly structured and securitized commercial real estate debt assets. We advise issuers, underwriters, mortgage loan sellers, collateral managers, servicers, operating advisors, IG and B-piece investors in CMBS, CDOs/CLOs, Re-REMICs, NPLs and other alternate securitized structures involving commercial real estate and residential mortgages.

Founding Sponsors

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BMO

BMO Capital Markets is a leading, full-service North American-based financial services provider offering equity and debt underwriting, corporate lending and project financing, merger and acquisitions advisory services, securitization, treasury management, market risk management, debt and equity research and institutional sales and trading. BMO Capital Markets has over 2,700 professionals in 32 locations around the world, including 20 offices in North America. BMO Capital Markets is a member of BMO Financial Group (NYSE, TSX: BMO), one of the largest diversified financial services providers in North America with US$998 billion total assets and approximately 54,000 employees as of April 30, 2024.

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

With more than 225 years of legal experience, Cadwalader serves a diverse client base, including many of the world's leading financial institutions, corporations and funds. We offer innovative legal representation in matters concerning antitrust, banking and finance, capital markets, corporate law, employee benefits and executive compensation, financial services and regulation, financial restructuring, fund finance, intellectual property, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, private wealth, real estate, securitization, structured finance, tax and white collar defense.

Fitch Ratings

As one of the world’s top three credit ratings agencies, Fitch Ratings plays a critical role in global capital markets by providing supplementary credit analysis, ratings, research, and commentary to financial market participants.For over 100 years, Fitch Ratings has been creating value for global markets through its rigorous analysis and deep expertise, which have resulted in a variety of market leading tools, methodologies, indices, research, and analytical products. Fitch Ratings is part of Fitch Group, a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries, which also includes Fitch Solutions.With dual headquarters in London and New York, Fitch Group is owned by Hearst.

KBRA

Kroll Bond Rating Agency, LLC and its affiliates (KBRA) is a global full-service rating agency with a mission to set a standard of excellence and integrity. Established in 2010, KBRA remains dedicated to the restoration of trust in credit ratings by creating new standards for assessing risk and by offering timely and transparent ratings. KBRA provides market participants with an alternative solution by delivering in-depth research across various sectors within the United States and European markets. We strive to provide the investment community with the products and tools needed to make informed investment decisions.

Nomura Holdings

Nomura is a financial services group with an integrated global network. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its four business divisions: Wealth Management, Investment Management, Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking), and Banking. Founded in 1925, the firm is built on a tradition of disciplined entrepreneurship, serving clients with creative solutions and considered thought leadership.

Trimont

Trimont (www.trimont.com) is a specialized global commercial real estate loan services provider and partner for lenders and investors seeking the infrastructure and capabilities needed to help them scale their business and make informed, effective decisions related to the deployment, management and administration of commercial real estate secured credit. Data-driven, collaborative and focused on commercial real estate, Trimont brings a distinctive mix of intelligent loan analysis, responsive communications, and unmatched administrative capabilities to clients seeking cost-effective solutions at scale. Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Atlanta, Trimont’s team of 1100+ employees serves a global client base from offices in Atlanta, Bengaluru, Charlotte, Dallas, Hyderabad, Kansas City, London, New York and Sydney. The firm currently has USD 700B+ in loans under management and serves clients with assets in 72 countries.

Sustaining Sponsors

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Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP

As recognized leaders in the US and international real estate capital markets, Arnold & Porter helps some of the world's largest financial institutions, institutional investors, investment banks, and developers maximize their complex and conventional real estate financing transactions.

ATLAS SP Partners

ATLAS SP Partners is a global investment firm providing stable capital, financing, advisory and institutional products to market participants seeking innovative and bespoke structured credit and asset backed solutions. We work across asset classes to originate, underwrite, securitize and distribute scaled asset-backed financing, with clients that include mortgage lenders, specialty finance companies, REITs, financial sponsors, corporates and more.

Bank of America

Bank of America is one of the world’s leading financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. The company provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving approximately 69 million consumer and small business clients with approximately 3,900 retail financial centers, approximately 15,000 ATMs (automated teller machines) and award-winning digital banking with approximately 57 million verified digital users. Bank of America is a global leader in wealth management, corporate and investment banking and trading across a broad range of asset classes, serving corporations, governments, institutions and individuals around the world. Bank of America offers industry-leading support to approximately 4 million small business households through a suite of innovative, easy-to-use online products and services. The company serves clients through operations across the United States, its territories and more than 35 countries. Bank of America Corporation stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BAC).

Citigroup Global Markets

Citi is a preeminent banking partner for institutions with cross-border needs, a global leader in wealth management and a valued personal bank in its home market of the United States. Citi does business in more than 180 countries and jurisdictions, providing corporations, governments, investors, institutions, and individuals with a broad range of financial products and services.

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global financial institution that delivers a broad range of financial services to a large and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world.

J.P. Morgan

With a comprehensive suite of industry leading capabilities, intellectual capital and balance sheet strength, J.P. Morgan delivers everything you need to create, execute and analyze the results of a wide range of strategies involving an array of real estate solutions on several scales. Types of execution include CMBS, balance sheet, CRE/CLO, aggregation loans, and strategic lending solutions.

KeyBank Real Estate Capital

KEYBANK REAL ESTATE CAPITAL is one of the nation's largest commercial real estate lenders. Our clients include professional owner-investors and developers as well as REITs, Funds and other commercial real estate investors. We offer a broad array of debt and equity solutions for the acquisition, refinance, development and investment of multifamily, affordable, commercial and healthcare real estate. KeyBank is the highest rated servicer in the industry with $420+ Billion in Primary/Master Servicing and $206+ Billion in named Special Servicing.

Moody's

For more than 115 years, Moody's Ratings has been a leading provider of credit ratings, research, and risk analysis helping businesses, governments, and other entities around the globe to anticipate, adapt and thrive in this era of exponential risk.

Morningstar DBRS

Morningstar DBRS is a leading provider of independent rating services and opinions for corporate and sovereign entities, financial institutions, and structured finance instruments globally. Rating more than 4,000 issuers and 60,000 securities, we are the fourth-largest credit rating agency in the world. Morningstar DBRS empowers investor success by bringing more transparency and a much-needed diversity of opinion in the credit rating industry. Market innovators choose to work with us because of our agility, tech-forward approach, and exceptional customer service. Morningstar DBRS is the next generation of credit ratings.

Polsinelli

Polsinelli is an Am Law 100 firm with more than 1,000 attorneys in over 20 offices nationwide. Recognized as one of the top firms for excellent client service and client relationships, Polsinelli is committed to meeting our clients’ expectations of what a law firm should be. Our attorneys provide value through practical legal counsel infused with business insight, offering comprehensive corporate, transactional, litigation and regulatory services with a focus on real estate, finance, technology, private equity, health care and life sciences.

Resilience Insurance Analytics

At Resilience Insurance Analytics, we're continuing a legacy: one built on the firmly held belief that every client, every deal, and every step of your review deserves the attention and expertise of a deeply experienced consultant. 100,000 deals later, our team is still committed to doing what it takes to close every loan. Comprehensive, market focused insurance risk analysis for commercial real estate loans.

S&P Global Ratings

S&P Global Ratings is the world's leading provider of credit ratings. We provide essential insight that is based on in-depth market knowledge, forward-looking analyses and transparent criteria. We have more than 1 million credit ratings outstanding on government, corporate, financial sector and structured finance entities and securities. With approximately 1,400 credit analysts, a presence in 26 countries and more than 150 years' experience of assessing credit risk, we offer a unique combination of global coverage and local insight. We provide our opinions and research about relative credit risk; market participants gain information to help support the growth of transparent, liquid debt markets worldwide.

Sidley Austin LLP

Sidley is an elite global law firm. With 2,300 lawyers and experience that spans 158 years, we have established a reputation using Built to Win? legal strategies in successfully representing clients in more than 70 countries on complex transactional, investigation, regulatory, and litigation matters. With 21 offices strategically situated in key commercial and financial hubs throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia Pacific, our perspective and our reach are truly global. Our lawyers and business professionals, fluent in more than 80 languages, possess the cultural awareness and cross-border legal acumen needed to bring clarity to a dynamic business landscape.

Spinoso Real Estate Group

Spinoso Real Estate Group is a leading national real estate owner and operator, offering a comprehensive suite of services designed to maximize and enhance the value of retail real estate, with a particular focus on enclosed mall assets for clients and investors.

Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo Corporate & Investment Banking delivers a comprehensive suite of capital markets, banking, and financial products and services. A trusted partner to our clients, we provide corporate and transactional banking, commercial real estate lending and servicing, investment banking, equity and fixed income solutions including sales, trading, and research capabilities to corporate, commercial real estate, government, and institutional clients across the globe. Our office locations span the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Wells Fargo Corporate & Investment Banking is part of Wells Fargo. Founded in 1852, Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a diversified, community-based financial services company with $1.9 trillion in assets. Wells Fargo’s vision is to satisfy our customers’ financial needs and help them succeed financially.

Platinum Sponsors

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Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Cleary Gottlieb is a pioneer in globalizing the legal profession. Founded by seven lawyers in 1946, our firm has grown to over 1,100 lawyers from more than 50 countries, working across practices, industries, jurisdictions and continents to provide clients with simple, actionable approaches to their most complex legal and business challenges, whether domestic or international. Cleary Gottlieb’s real estate practice is diversified and global, spanning the full range of transaction types, regions, and asset classes, and has significant experience providing practical and innovative solutions to the business real estate needs of a wide range of U.S. and multinational clients.

CoStar

CoStar Risk Analytics, a specialized division of CoStar, comprises a team of CRE credit risk experts, including PhDs, CFAs, and CPAs, with extensive experience serving banks of all sizes, private lenders, regulatory agencies, life insurance companies, and investment firms.With decades of experience assessing risk on commercial real estate (CRE) mortgages, as well as substantial knowledge in regulatory-directed assignments, including assisting institutions with their CCAR submissions, CoStar Risk Analytics is recognized as a trusted partner in the CRE credit industry segments, and supports lenders and debt investors in continuously analyzing markets, buildings, and loans by combining clients' loan portfolios with the industry's most comprehensive building-level database and our vetted COMPASS credit default model.Clients benefit from increased capacity to create new business, price loans, make informed credit choices, apply stress testing, create custom scenarios, actively manage the portfolio, and analyze refinancing risk within a disciplined framework.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Gibson Dunn is a leading global law firm with 2,000 lawyers in 22 offices 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.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

With a global platform of approximately 4,000 lawyers in 22 offices across the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, Kirkland & Ellis provides elite legal advice and a relentless commitment to client service. Kirkland's powerhouse real estate finance practice counsels both lenders and borrowers in a wide variety of real estate financing transactions across the entire capital structure including corporate term loans and revolving credit facilities, bond issuances, CMBS financings and mezzanine loans. Kirkland is a market-leader in each of its core practice areas, including private equity, M&A and other complex corporate transactions; investment fund formation and alternative asset management; restructurings; high-stakes commercial and intellectual property litigation; and government, regulatory and internal investigations.

Knighthead Funding, LLC

Knighthead is a leading real estate finance firm focused on originating commercial mortgage loans nationwide on behalf of Knighthead Annuity & Life Assurance Company and its clients. Knighthead Funding provides senior secured loans and senior participations for predevelopment, construction, value-add, transitional, and stabilized real estate transactions, offering both conventional and bespoke financing solutions.

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

For over a century Orrick has acted for clients in the Finance sector, delivering innovative legal solutions and strategic advice. Our market leading structured finance team, backed by our capital markets real estate lawyers, advises on the structuring, execution, and sale of commercial mortgage-backed securities and other real estate financings. Consistently ranked among the top issuers' and underwriters’ counsel by Commercial Mortgage Alert and ranked Band 1 by Chambers USA, our CMBS team represents underwriters and issuers, as well as mortgage loan sellers and other market participants, on billions of dollars of commercial and multifamily loans annually.

Paul Hastings LLP

With widely recognized elite teams in finance, mergers & acquisitions, private equity, restructuring and special situations, litigation, employment, and real estate, Paul Hastings is a premier law firm providing intellectual capital and superior execution globally to the world’s leading investment banks, asset managers, and corporations.

Trepp, Inc.

Trepp, founded in 1979, is a leading provider of data, analytics, and technology solutions to the global securities and investment management industries. Trepp specifically serves three key sectors: structured finance, commercial real estate, and banking to help market participants meet their objectives for surveillance, credit risk management, and investment performance. Trusted by the industry for the accuracy of its proprietary data, Trepp provides clients with sophisticated, comprehensive models and analytics. Trepp is wholly owned by Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT).

Zions Bancorporation, N.A.

Zions Capital Markets is a leading CMBS platform launched in 2023 and built to thrive in all market environments. Focused on the needs of property owners with traditional commercial real estate assets, Zions Capital Markets combined Zions Bancorporation, N.A.’s (NASDAQ: ZION) 150-year history of commercial real estate lending with extensive CMBS experience to deliver financing solutions that meet and exceed our client’s needs. Zions Bancorporation is one of the nation’s premier financial services companies with approximately $90 billion of total assets.

Gold Sponsors

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Akerman LLP

Akerman LLP is an AM Law 100 firm and distinguished among the most forward-thinking firms in the industry by Financial Times. Akerman’s comprehensive and full-service Real Estate Finance practice represents lenders and borrowers in a broad range of complex and innovative real estate financing transactions, including real estate capital markets, securitizations, financial services, structured and commercial finance, creditors’ rights, loan portfolio management and servicing, and financial restructuring. Our team includes former in-house counsel from major multinational banks, and is consistently recognized as a national leader in the real estate sector.

DLA Piper

DLA Piper is a is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, positioning us to help clients with their legal needs around the world. With a portfolio of services to match every stage of the business lifecycle, we combine practice area knowledge with modern industry insights. Our global solutions are tailored and seamless – and ready to meet your toughest challenges.

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer is a world-leading global law firm, where our ambition is to help you achieve your goals. As a fully integrated transatlantic and transpacific firm, we are where you need us to be. Our footprint is extensive and committed across the world’s largest markets, key financial centers, and major growth hubs. Tackling complexity and navigating change, we work alongside you on demanding litigation, exacting regulatory work and complex public and private market transactions. Recognized as leading in these areas, we are immersed in the sectors and challenges that impact you.

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Katten is a full-service law firm with approximately 700 attorneys in locations across the United States and in London and Shanghai. Clients seeking sophisticated, high-value legal services turn to Katten for counsel locally, nationally and internationally. The firm’s core areas of practice include real estate, structured finance and securitization, corporate, financial markets and funds, insolvency and restructuring, intellectual property, litigation, transactional tax planning, private credit and private wealth. Katten represents public and private companies in numerous industries, as well as a number of government and nonprofit organizations and individuals.

Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley offers a global real estate platform providing a broad range of real estate capital markets and financial advisory services. Morgan Stanley’s core competencies include CMBS & Balance Sheet lending, underwriting, trading, syndication, and research. In 2024 Morgan Stanley originated $10Bn in commercial real estate loans in the US, bringing total US originations since 2020 to $46Bn.

Petros PACE Finance

Petros PACE Finance, LLC, acquired by Apollo Global Management in 2022, is the national leader in the C-PACE marketplace, dedicated solely to providing long-term C-PACE financing to commercial property owners seeking to lower energy costs, reduce their carbon footprint, increase property values, and meet Sustainability goals. Its leadership team has decades of executive-level experience in private credit and structured finance, with direct long-term institutional investor relationships. With billions in committed capital, Petros is able to close transactions in eligible C-PACE markets nationwide.

UBS

UBS provides financial advice and solutions to wealthy, institutional and corporate clients worldwide, as well as private clients in Switzerland. UBS's strategy is centered on our leading global wealth management business and our premier universal bank in Switzerland, enhanced by Asset Management and the Investment Bank. The bank focuses on businesses that have a strong competitive position in their targeted markets, are capital efficient, and have an attractive long-term structural growth or profitability outlook. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, UBS has offices over 50 regions and locations, including all major financial centers, and employs approximately 67,000 people. UBS Group AG is the holding company of the UBS Group. Under Swiss company law, UBS Group AG is organized as an Aktiengesellschaft, a corporation that has issued shares of common stock to investors. Investment Bank The Investment Bank provides corporate, institutional and wealth management clients with expert advice, innovative solutions, execution and comprehensive access to international capital markets. It offers advisory services and provides in-depth cross-asset research, along with access to equities, foreign exchange, precious metals and selected rates and credit markets, through its business units, Corporate Client Solutions and Investor Client Services. The Investment Bank is an active participant in capital markets flow activities, including sales, trading and market-making across a range of securities.

Silver Sponsors

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Alston & Bird LLP

Alston & Bird is a recognized leader in real estate finance and capital markets. Our team of more than 125 real estate finance and securitization lawyers advises clients on loan origination platforms, CMBS and CRE CLO structuring and issuance, master and special servicing, investing, fund formation, esoteric capital market execution and related tax, regulatory and enforcement issues.

Argentic

Privately owned cre lender, focused on debt financing solutions to owners of cre

Ballard Spahr LLP

Ballard Spahr provides strategic legal services and business solutions of the highest quality, delivered with uncommon efficiency. With more than 750 lawyers in 18 U.S. offices, we bring industry knowledge augmented by tenacity, initiative, and a drive for results—creating an outsized advantage for clients in litigation, transactions, and regulatory compliance.

Barclays

Our vision is to be the UK-centred leader in global finance. We are a diversified bank with comprehensive UK consumer, corporate and wealth and private banking franchises, a leading global investment bank and a strong, specialist US consumer bank. Through these five divisions, we are working together for a better financial future for our customers, clients and communities. The Investment Bank helps money managers, financial institutions, governments, supranational organisations and corporate clients manage their funding, investing, financing, advisory and risk management needs.

Bilzin Sumberg

Bilzin Sumberg is a commercial law firm focusing on complex matters that demand a breadth of experience and depth of expertise. The firm’s relationship-driven approach to client needs centers on practicality, creativity, and trust. Its leading real estate finance, CMBS, and capital markets attorneys counsel debt funds, direct lenders, non-institutional lenders, servicers, finance companies, and banks on the full gamut of asset types - retail, residential, office, hospitality, raw land, industrial, mixed-use, and condominiums – as well as on a broad line-up of real estate-related loans and other financial products.

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP

BCLP is a AmLaw100 firm with over 1,275 lawyers in 31 offices globally. Working as one team, we bring to our clients a range of integrated capabilities, including some of the world’s most active M&A, real estate, financial services, litigation and corporate risk practices.

Cassin & Cassin LLP

Cassin & Cassin LLP, a law firm with more than 30 attorneys across offices in New York City, Westchester, and Phoenix, is a recognized leader in commercial real estate transactions. For nearly four decades, we’ve delivered exceptional legal counsel and personalized service to a diverse range of clients. Our practice spans all facets of commercial real estate and real estate finance, representing lenders, borrowers, developers, investors, owners, managers, buyers, and sellers. With deep industry knowledge and a dedicated group focused on originating commercial mortgage loans for sale and securitization in the secondary markets, we bring unparalleled insight and efficiency to every transaction. We’re proud to have cemented a formidable reputation in the industry and we are honored to enjoy the strong loyalty of our clients.

Citco Loan Services (USA) Inc.

Citco Loan Services (USA), Inc. (CLS) is part of the Citco group of companies (Citco) a leading global provider of asset servicing solutions within the alternative investment industry. Servicing over $180 billion of loan commitments across 100 clients globally, CLS provides a fully-integrated loan servicing and agency platform for loan originators and investors.

CWCapital

CW is a real estate services innovator behind top Freddie Mac special servicer and real estate advisory firm CWCapital Asset Management (CWCAM), leading loan servicing software RealINSIGHT, and commercial real estate auction and data powerhouse RI Marketplace. CW augments the invaluable multi-cycle experience of in-house real estate finance veterans with cutting-edge technology that maximizes workflow efficiencies, generates actionable analytics, and drives greater returns.

Greenberg Traurig, LLP

The Greenberg Traurig Real Estate Practice is a cornerstone of the firm and recognized leader in the industry. The firm’s real estate attorneys deliver diversified and comprehensive counsel for property acquisition and investment, development, management and leasing, financing, restructuring, and disposition of all asset classes of real estate. The team draws upon the knowledge and experience of more than 700 real estate lawyers from around the world, serving clients from key markets in the United States, Europe & the Middle East, Asiaand Latin America. The group’s clientele includes a broad range of property developers, lenders, investment managers, private equity funds, REITs, and private owners. The firm’s real estate team advises clients on a variety of matters across a broad spectrum of commercial, recreational, and residential real estate, including structured equity and debt and the hybrids.

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Since its founding in 1836, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP has been an integral participant in the real estate market across the United States. Our real estate finance attorneys represent a who’s who of private equity funds, insurance companies, investment banks, CMBS lenders, and commercial banks, as well as commercial real estate loan servicers. Our real estate finance attorneys consistently provide our clients with timely, sophisticated and insightful legal services. Our approach to the law is accessible, collaborative and practical in the pursuit of our clients’ business goals and objectives. You will find us at the crossroads of innovation and excellence..

Lument

Lument is a national leader in delivering a comprehensive set of capital solutions customized for investors in multifamily, affordable housing, seniors housing, and healthcare real estate. We offer Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FHA/HUD, and balance sheet bridge financing, as well as a suite of capital markets lending products, investment sales, investment banking, and investment management solutions. Lument has approximately 600 employees in over 30 offices across the United States and is a subsidiary of ORIX Corporation USA.

Mayer Brown LLP

Mayer Brown is an international law firm representing the world’s major corporations, funds, and financial institutions in their most important and complex transactions and disputes. We have deep experience in high-stakes litigation and complex transactions across industry sectors, including real estate. Mayer Brown helps clients in this trillion-dollar industry adapt and respond to ever-fluctuating economic and regulatory conditions. From the formation of capital-raising vehicles to acquisitions and sales to transactions involving complex financing and joint-venture structures in multiple jurisdictions, our global team guides clients through all aspects of their real estate matters.

McCoy & Orta, P.C.

McCoy & Orta, a professional corporation, is a nationally recognized commercial law firm. Our primary focus is on the origination of loans intended for securitization, mortgage loan transfers and loan servicing transactions in the CMBS and CLO industries. The firm also represents private equity firms in the area of loan sales and assignments made in connection with master repurchase agreements. McCoy & Orta has a strong bench of talented attorneys, including several that were partners and senior associates at international AM Law 100 law firms. The firm’s experience, personal service and competitive fees has resulted in sustained success spanning more than 30 years.

MONTICELLOAM, LLC

MONTICELLOAM, LLC is a specialized multifamily and seniors housing lending platform with expertise in providing bridge loans and managing credit risk. The firm offers customized financing options – including bridge loans, working capital solutions, and permanent debt – designed to meet the specific needs of its clients.

MSCI

MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community. With over 50 years of expertise in research, data and technology, we power better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build more effective portfolios. We create industry-leading research-enhanced solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve transparency across the investment process.

PwC

PwC's Financial Markets and Real Estate practice is a global team of over 400 financial products specialists operating in over a dozen cities across the U.S. The team specializes in anticipating, understanding, and resolving complex problems for companies with exposure to complex financial instruments and real estate. The Real Estate Capital Markets team provides assurance and advisory services to lenders, securitization issuers and other stakeholders in the commercial real estate finance space.

Santander US Capital Markets LLC

Santander US Capital Markets LLC (SanCap) is the institutional broker-dealer of Santander in the United States operating under Santander Corporate & Investment Banking (Santander CIB), a Santander global division that supports corporate and institutional clients. SanCap was created by successfully combining the experienced teams of Santander Investment Securities Inc. and Amherst Pierpont Securities LLC in early 2023. The firm brings significant experience in Fixed Income, Structured Products and Equities, supported by the strength of a large international bank. We believe the breadth of our underwriting, sales and trading and distribution capabilities, alongside strategy insights, provides an unmatched ability to meet the needs of our clients. SanCap is focused on providing solutions to our clients in areas such as Credit, Rates, Structured Products, Securities Financing, Debt & Equity Capital Markets, Exchange Traded Derivatives, and Cash Equities. We serve a wide array of institutional clients including Asset Managers, Hedge Funds, Banks and Brokerages, Pension Funds, Insurance Companies, and Corporations. SanCap is a self-clearing member of the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation and a member of FINRA and SIPC. It continues to hold the Primary Dealer designation, which was received from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 2019.

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

With more than 975 lawyers across 17 offices, Seyfarth Shaw LLP provides transactional, advisory, and litigation legal services to clients worldwide. Drawing on a foundation of experience and knowledge of evolving lending and capital markets, shifting industry trends, and complex lending principles, our Real Estate Finance attorneys deliver business-driven legal counsel and create tailored solutions for all aspects of lender and borrower representations, including servicing, origination, and everything in between. We achieve timely, practical, and comprehensive results—carrying deals across the finish line, no matter the size, speed, or complexity.

SitusAMC

SitusAMC is the leading independent provider of innovative, trusted solutions to the commercial real estate finance industry. From originations to secondary market activity to loan servicing and asset management, we leverage cutting-edge technology and expert-led services to power more efficient, effective, agile, and, ultimately, better more profitable businesses.

Venable LLP

Committed to Your Success – As a law firm of more than 900 professionals, Venable delivers legal services globally in every area of regulatory compliance, government affairs, corporate and business transactions, intellectual property, and complex litigation. But no matter the practice, we are united by our passion for the work, all meant to empower you, our client, to be the best version of yourself in any circumstance. Because it’s not about us; it’s about you – your priorities, your goals, your long list of what-ifs that keep you up at night. That’s just our to-do list. That’s what keeps us focused – your success.

White and Williams LLP

Our Real Estate Finance group handles sophisticated commercial real estate finance and capital market transactions at all layers of the capital stack. We have a well-deserved reputation for excellence in all facets of real estate finance, including mortgage, mezzanine, “B” note and preferred equity investments for leading investment funds, banks, insurance companies and non-traditional lenders. Our lending experience also includes CMBS originations, construction loans, structured finance and the restructuring, workout and foreclosure of troubled loans.

Bronze Sponsors

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Bridge Investment Group

Bridge Investment Group is a leading, vertically integrated alternative investment manager diversified across specialized asset classes. Bridge combines its nationwide operating platform with dedicated teams of investment professionals focused on select U.S. verticals spanning Living Development, Logistics, Real Estate-Backed Credit, and Net Lease strategies. Apollo acquired Bridge Investment Group in 2025, creating one of the leading global real estate lending and investment platforms with approximately $136 billion of assets under management as of September 30, 2025.

Clifford Chance US LLP

Clifford Chance is a global law firm recognized for its experience in commercial real estate mortgage finance and securitization. Our US structured finance team includes more than 30 attorneys located in New York and Washington, DC who advise clients at the forefront of the market. Our US team is fully integrated with our global structured finance group, the largest international securitization group of any law firm with over 160 lawyers, and works closely with our global funds group. We are uniquely positioned to provide superior structured finance legal services in multiple jurisdictions, including the world’s most important financial centers.

Computershare Trust Company, N.A.

Computershare Corporate Trust is a market leader with decades of experience as a provider of trustee and sophisticated agency services for private and public companies, investment bankers, and asset managers. We offer a wide range of services that fulfill our clients’ needs in corporate and structured finance, debt issuance and M&A. Computershare Corporate Trust is an industry leader with USD$5.8 trillion of debt under administration, USD$342.7 billion in assets under administration and cross-border capabilities including USD$1.3 trillion in funds movements across 75+ currencies in foreign exchange and distributions. With the acquisition of Wells Fargo CTS in November 2021, Computershare Corporate Trust is among the top providers in the US ranking #1 in CMBS, CRE CLO and top 3 in RMBS, CLO, ABS, Convertible and High Yield Debt. Our team of more than 2,000 employees continues our commitment to delivering the highest standards of service and value to our entire client base.

Intex Solutions, Inc.

Intex is the industry’s leading provider of cashflow models and analytics, with over 40,000 CLO, ABS, RMBS and CMBS deals modeled from around the globe. Intex is relied upon by hundreds of arrangers, investors, issuers and others for complete, accurate and timely cashflow models used in trading, portfolio management and risk management applications. Intex's applications include INTEXcalc for single-security and portfolio analysis and cashflow stress-testing, the INTEX Subroutine API for system builders, and INTEX DealMaker for structuring new deals. Intex is an independent, objective and privately-held company with offices in Massachusetts, London and Shanghai.

Mesirow

Mesirow is a privately held financial services company based in Chicago, Illinois. The firm is employee-owned and 100% of voting shares are held by employees. Mesirow provides investment management, capital markets, wealth management and investment banking services.

Metropolitan Commercial Bank

Midland Loan Services

Midland Loan Services is a leading third-party provider of loan servicing, special servicing, and asset management solutions for the commercial real estate finance industry. We have earned a reputation for exceptional customer service, proven real estate expertise and leading-edge technology. Midland provides a comprehensive set of loan servicing and asset management products and services for institutional, multifamily agency, specialty finance and alternative lenders. In our role as a third-party service provider, we offer flexible servicing solutions, which can be tailored to meet the needs of all our customers. Midland is also an independent third-party special servicer providing non-performing loan resolution, workout and loss mitigation services for CMBS and non-securitized real estate and commercial assets. Our services leverage seasoned asset management staff and extensive commercial real estate credit expertise. Midland is a PNC Real Estate business.

Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP

Our Commercial Lending, Finance and Creditors' Rights practice groups represent banks and other lending institutions, financial sponsors, strategic buyers and sellers, mezzanine funds, buy-out and private equity firms and not-for-profit entities in a variety of complex public and private financing including CRE acquisition, construction, take-out, A/B, repurchase and equity financing structures. Our extensive experience representing creditors, investors, business owners and businesses in distressed situations render us uniquely effective at providing creative advice for all distressed investing in a variety of industries, including distressed real estate transactions.

New York Life Real Estate Investors

Performance Trust Capital Partners

Performance Trust is the largest full-service investment bank focused on community depository institutions. We help our clients make better balance sheet decisions so they can serve their communities and help fuel small businesses by using revolutionary strategies, tools, and insights to measure the risk and rewards of cash flows across the entire balance sheet. Education is the cornerstone for all we do which allows our clients to deepen their expertise as they work alongside us.

Societe Generale

Societe Generale is a top tier European Bank with more than 126,000 employees serving nearly 25 million clients in 65 countries across the world. We have been supporting the development of our economies for 160 years, providing our corporate, institutional, and individual clients with a wide array of value-added advisory and financial solutions. Our long lasting and trusted relationships with the clients, our cutting-edge expertise, our unique innovation, our ESG capabilities and leading franchises are part of our DNA and serve our most essential objective - to deliver sustainable value creation for all our stakeholders.

Starwood Property Trust

We originate competitively-priced loans typically ranging from $5 Million to $100 Million, and we also do smaller and larger loans on a case-by-case basis. Our commercial mortgage loans are secured by retail shopping centers, office buildings, multifamily apartment complexes, hotels, self storage, mixed-use and industrial properties throughout North America.

Media Sponsors

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Commercial Mortgage Alert

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Commercial Observer

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CRE Direct

Commercial Real Estate Direct, a product of Trepp Inc, was founded in 1999 with the idea of bringing high-end news and information to professionals in the commercial real estate industry.

PERE Credit

PERE Credit is the premier news, data and insight service institutional private real estate debt capital markets. The service focuses primarily on capital formation, strategy and deployment by alternative lenders in commercial real estate. PERE Credit's audience comprises stewards of commercial real estate debt capital, including fund managers, mortgage REITs, insurance companies, C-PACE providers and other institutional direct lenders, their counterparties and advisors. Areas of focus include: the nexus between institutional investor and manager; the interplay between private real estate debt lenders and their borrowers, and their advisors amid the sector’s growing alternative debt universe and shrinking bank engagement.