CREFC Career Chat with
Erin O'Callaghan, Managing Director, Blackstone
Join us for a conversation with Erin O'Callaghan, Managing Director in the Real Estate Debt Strategies group at Blackstone, where she oversees all legal aspects of the firm's commercial real estate financing platform - spanning fixed and floating-rate loan originations, construction financing, subordinate debt structures, and related asset management and secondary market transactions.
In this Career Chat, Erin will walk through a career that began at leading law firms before moving in-house at MC-Five Mile and Argentic and ultimately to a senior legal leadership role at Blackstone. She'll reflect on what prompted each transition and how she developed a business partner mindset over time.
Erin will also share her approach to leadership in high-stakes, fast-moving transaction environments, what she looks for when building a team, and how she thinks about deal structuring and risk management in today's uncertain market - including lessons from deals that grew more complex over time and examples of structural innovation she believes will have a lasting impact on how CRE debt is executed and managed.
The conversation will close with practical insights on AI's growing role in legal due diligence, the trends she's watching closely, and what every CRE finance professional - regardless of their role - should understand about the legal side of the business.
Whether you're just entering the industry or working to deepen your expertise, don't miss this opportunity to hear from someone who has built a career across law firms, in-house platforms, and a major institutional debt platform.
Featured Speaker:
Erin O'Callaghan, Managing Director, Blackstone
Moderator:
To Be Announced
Date:
Friday, October 23
12:00pm - 1:00pm ET
Registration Rates:
Complimentary - Members
$25 - Non-Members
Registration closes 30 minutes prior to the start of this webinar.