Showcase Your Company at CREFC Miami

There is no better opportunity to showcase your brand to the highest level CRE finance industry participants than sponsoring CREFC Miami. Your company name displayed on thousands of cups of coffee, on signage across our venue, and at our multiple networking receptions – these are just some of the ways to gain valuable exposure for your firm.

Sponsorships are booked months in advance, so act quickly. All sponsorships are on a first come, first served basis.

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The application for meeting rooms will open on September 16th.

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 If you are interested in sponsoring CREFC Miami 2025, please contact Caitlin Adams.

Our 2025 Sponsors To Date

Partner Sponsor

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. To learn more, visit dbrs.morningstar.com

Founding Sponsors

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.

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.

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.

Sustaining Sponsors

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).

Fitch Ratings

Fitch Ratings is a leading provider of credit ratings, commentary, and research. Dedicated to providing value beyond the rating through independent and prospective credit opinions, Fitch Ratings offers global perspectives shaped by strong local market experience and credit market expertise. The additional context, perspective, and insights we provide help investors to make important credit judgments with confidence. Fitch Group is a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries. Fitch Group is comprised of: Fitch Ratings, a global leader in credit ratings and research; Fitch Solutions, a leading provider of credit market data, analytical tools and risk services; and Fitch Learning, a preeminent training and professional development firm. With dual headquarters in London and New York, Fitch Group is owned by Hearst. For additional information, please visit fitchratings.com.

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. Visit us at www.jpmorgan.com for more information.

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

We are a global integrated risk assessment firm that empowers organizations to make better decisions. Our data, analytical solutions and insights help decision-makers identify opportunities and manage the risks of doing business with others. We believe that greater transparency, more informed decisions, and fair access to information open the door to shared progress. With over 14,000 employees in more than 40 countries, Moody’s combines global presence with local expertise and over a century of experience in financial markets.

Polsinelli

Polsinelli is an Am Law 100 firm with more than 1,000 attorneys in 22 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.

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. To learn more, please visit us at spglobal.com/ratings.

Spinoso Real Estate Group

Spinoso Real Estate Group is a national real estate firm, specializing in enclosed shopping malls and large-scale retail properties. With a proven track record of 66 properties and 52 million square feet of enclosed-mall transformation, the firm offers a range of services including leasing, property management, repositioning, development, stabilization, and re-development.

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

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.

M&T Bank

M&T Bank Corporation is a financial holding company headquartered in Buffalo, New York. M&T’s affiliates offer advice, guidance, expertise and solutions across the entire financial spectrum, combining M&T Bank’s traditional banking services with the wealth management and institutional capabilities offered by Wilmington Trust. M&T Bank has a network of over 900 branches that span 12 states from Maine to Virginia and Washington, D.C.

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Orrick provides cutting-edge legal solutions for the Finance and Fintech markets globally. Participants across the market rely on us for seamless transactional execution, winning litigation strategies, and forward-looking regulatory solutions. Our structured finance team is among the most active and creative in the United States. We work with innovators on first-to-market products, from structuring the first oil & gas and renewables royalty securitizations, to helping develop blockchain standards for the auto market, to advising on data center securitizations. We are honored to partner with the most forward looking market players.

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).

Trimont

Trimont (www.trimont.com) is a specialized global commercial real estate loan services provider and partner for lenders 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 entirely on commercial real estate, Trimont brings a distinctive mix of intelligent loan analysis, responsive communications, and unmatched administrative capabilities to partners seeking cost-effective solutions at scale. Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Atlanta, Trimont’s team of 400+ employees serve a global client base from offices in Atlanta, Dallas, Kansas City, London, New York and Sydney. The firm currently has $236B in loans under management and serves clients with assets in 72 countries.

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

Built Technologies

Built is the leading provider of construction finance technology. Built connects commercial and consumer construction lenders, property developers, commercial general contractors, residential home builders, specialty contractors, title companies, and other critical industry vendors to improve the flow of capital through the construction ecosystem. By connecting all key stakeholders involved in the construction financing process in real-time, the Built platform helps mitigate risk, power faster draws and payments, ensure compliance, and inspire customer loyalty. Built is used by more than 170 of the leading U.S. & Canadian construction lenders and thousands of developers and contractors. For more information, visit www.getbuilt.com.

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 2018 Morgan Stanley has originated $12 bln in commercial real estate loans in the US bringing the total origination since 2010 to $ 68.6 bln.

Silver Sponsors

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.

Ballard Spahr LLP

Ballard Goes Beyond: We provide strategic legal services and business solutions of the highest quality, delivered with uncommon efficiency. With more than 600 lawyers in 15 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.

Bilzin Sumberg

Bilzin Sumberg is a Miami-based commercial law firm counseling clients whose business and legal opportunities and challenges span the United States, Canada, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia. The firm stands at the center of virtually every major transaction shaping Florida and is at the forefront of the state’s most pressing economic issues. The firm’s lawyers concentrate on services at the heart of both regional and international commerce, including real estate, land development and government relations, environmental, construction, corporate and securities, finance, joint ventures, domestic and international tax and private wealth planning, antitrust, business litigation, and public-private partnerships.

Birdsey Group Commercial

Birdsey Group is a national financial services firm providing high-quality asset management, loan underwriting and inspection services to the institutional real estate investment community. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, our team has experience across all CMBS and Agency product types. Birdsey Group is also the nation’s leading B-piece and K-series portfolio underwriting and due diligence firms. In the past 10 years, Birdsey Group has analyzed more than 50,000 commercial properties totaling $250+ billion in loan balance for institutional real estate firms across the U.S.

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.

Greystone

Greystone is a leading commercial real estate finance firm headquartered in New York. The firm ranks as the #1 multifamily and healthcare FHA lender, Top 10 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac lender, and offers a range of additional financing options including bridge and CMBS loans.

Santander

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 900 lawyers across 18 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 for both high volume loan programs and one-off transactions. We achieve timely, practical, and comprehensive results—carrying deals across the finish line, no matter the size, speed, or complexity.

Vcheck Global LLC

As a leading provider of due diligence background investigations, Vcheck Global protects the reputations and investments of companies around the world. Vchecks' core focus is providing all types of lenders and their counsel with background checks on the key borrowers and entities ahead of a transaction. Named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies in America four years in a row, Vcheck Global and its growing team of accomplished investigators, subject matter experts, in-house linguists, and client relationship associates can accommodate a variety of client needs and priorities with easily customized scopes and international service coverage.

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

Bridge Investment Group

Bridge is a leading, alternative investment manager, diversified across specialized asset classes, with approximately $47.7 billion of assets under management as of December 31, 2023. Bridge combines its nationwide operating platform with dedicated teams of investment professionals focused on select verticals across real estate, credit, renewable energy and secondaries strategies.

Cassin & Cassin LLP

Cassin & Cassin LLP, a law firm with more than 40 attorneys across offices in New York, Texas, and Arizona, has over three decades of experience providing the highest quality of service to our clients. Our attorneys have an in-depth knowledge in all areas of commercial real estate and commercial real estate finance with a team dedicated to the origination of commercial mortgage loans intended for sale and securitization in the secondary markets.

Clifford Chance

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, asset managers as well as governments and institutions. We offer a wide range of services that fulfill our clients’ unique and emerging needs in corporate and structured finance, debt issuance and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Computershare Corporate Trust is an industry leader with USD$5.3 trillion of debt under administration, USD$347.8 billion in assets under administration and cross-border capabilities including USD$1.2 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 and Investment Grade, Municipal and Convertible 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. For more information, visit computershare.com/corporatetrust Footnotes: .*Data for the 12-months ending 06/30/2023, DUA includes all issues within the paying agency system of record. All totals are in USD. CAD to USD exchange rate .75 on 06/30/2023.

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.

PNC Real Estate/Midland Loan Services

PNC Real Estate is a leading provider of banking, financing and servicing solutions for commercial real estate clients across the country. Our comprehensive array of capabilities includes acquisition, construction and permanent financing for public and private developers and investors; agency financing for multifamily and seniors housing properties; and debt and equity capital for the affordable housing industry. And, through Midland Loan Services, we provide third-party loan servicing, asset management and technology solutions.

Sheppard Mullin Richter Hampton LLP

Sheppard Mullin is a full service AmLaw 50 firm with more than 1,100 attorneys in 16 offices located in the United States, Asia and Europe. The negotiation and documentation of real estate secured financing transactions for banks, finance companies, insurance companies and other financial institutions is a major practice at Sheppard Mullin. We pride ourselves on practicality and problem solving in the representation of our clients. Because of the depth and breadth of our expertise in the representation of banks, asset based lenders and other financial institutions, we bring practical, concrete and cost effective proposals and solutions to any type of challenge facing a lender.

Media Sponsors

Commercial Mortgage Alert

Identify new financing opportunities and stay ahead of your competition in CRE finance with Commercial Mortgage Alert. This weekly publication conveys the earliest look at key dealings in today's commercial MBS and traditional real estate debt markets.

Commercial Observer

For real estate trends & commercial real estate news, Commercial Observer has the latest on leases, financing, sales, construction, architecture, & design.

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.