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Cadwalader hosted its second annual Finance Forum in Charlotte, North Carolina in November 2017, gathering more than 400 industry leaders in the asset-based lending, commercial real estate, fund finance and securitization markets for panel discussions covering opportunities and emerging trends in those areas.
Panel Topics
- Blockchain and Commercial Finance: New Technologies, New Opportunities
- The CLO Market: Current Issues and Trends
- Comeback Time for Residential Mortgages and RMBS
- Commercial Real Estate CLOs: The Year in Review
- European Market Update
- Fund Finance Market Update
- Improving CMBS from the Inside Out
- Middle Market Lending: Looking Back, Looking Ahead
- NAV and Hybrid Loan Facilities: Current Issues and Trends
- Politics and Finance – Regulation of Finance in the Trump Era
- Recent Litigation and Enforcement Trends in the Financial Sector
- The Secondary Market: Buying and Selling Subordinate Debt
- Trends and Challenges in Commercial Real Estate Finance
- Washington Insights: A Look at Pending Regulatory & Legislative Updates
- Women in Finance – What’s Working and What’s Not?
Featured Panelists
- Randy Ahlgren, Vice President, Wells Fargo
- Stefanos Arethas, Head of Origination, Credit Suisse
- Kevin Batteh, Partner, Delta Strategy Group
- George Beckwith, Chief Financial Officer, National Gypsum Company
- Andy Blocker, Executive Vice President, Public Policy and Advocacy, SIFMA
- Richard Bosek, Managing Director, Debt Capital Markets, Wells Fargo
- Deanne Brand, Vice President, Park Hotels & Resorts
- Leland Bunch, Managing Director, Bank of America
- Sairah Burki, Senior Director, ABS Policy, SFIG
- Frank Byrne, Senior Vice President, Bank of America
- Brian Carey, Executive Director, JPMorgan
- Joan Cheney, Senior Manager, Treasury & Liquidity Risk Management, Deloitte
- Matthew Cohen, Principal, Mesa West Capital
- James Conopask, Managing Director, Good Hill Partners
- Thomas Cosenza, Executive Director, JPMorgan
- Pratap Dasgupta, Senior Managing Director, Fund Linked Products, Macquarie
- Maureen Dollinger O'Connor, Vice President - Financial Crime Legal, Barclays
- Missy Dolski, Director, Varde Partners
- David Eckels, Senior Vice President, Midland Loan Services
- Michael Flood, Deputy Executive Director, CREFC
- Ron Franklin, Partner, Corporate, Proskauer
- Terrence Gregersen, Executive Director, Natixis
- Anuj Gupta, Managing Director, Waterfall Asset Management
- Daniel Jacobson, Portfolio Manager, AEW Capital Management
- Jeff Jaenicke, Managing Director, Head of Fund Linked Products Financing, Credit Suisse
- Jeffrey Johnston, Managing Director, Wells Fargo
- Laurie Lawler, Managing Director, HSBC
- Catherine Matthews, Director and Senior Trader, Covenant Credit Partners
- Alessandra McKell, Director, Private Equity Fund Finance, Investec
- Deryk Meherik, Vice President/Senior Credit Officer, Moody's
- Matthew Nichols, Chief Executive Officer, Deephaven Mortgage
- Jason Nick, Deputy CIO, Private Securities, Starwood Property Trust
- David O'Reilly, Chief Financial Officer, Howard Hughes Corporation
- Anders Persson, Managing Director, TIAA
- Melissa Ricco, Managing Director, Barings
- Allan Schmitt, Managing Director, Wells Fargo
- Allen Shifflet, Managing Director, Bank of America
- Kunal Singh, Managing Director, JPMorgan
- Dee Dee Sklar, Managing Director, Head of Subscription Finance Asset-Backed Finance, Wells Fargo
- Jonathan Spiegel, Transaction Management Attorney, Morgan Stanley
- David Spotts, Senior Vice President, Midland Loan Services, Inc.
- Lisa Traylor, Managing Director, Wells Fargo
- Tess Virmani, Associate General Counsel, LSTA
- Laura Warner, Managing Director, Fifth Third Bank
- Richard Wheelahan, General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer, Capitala Group
- Robert Wood, Managing Director, Subscription Finance, Bank of America