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.

All sponsorships are on a first come, first served basis.

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Secure a meeting room for the January Conference. All meeting rooms are on a first come, first served basis.

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


CREFC Suitcasing and Outboarding Policy
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CREFC strictly prohibits Suitcasing and Outboarding activities at our meetings, conferences, and events. Suitcasing and Outboarding are unethical practices where an individual or firm attends a conference to solicit business without purchasing an exhibit/meeting space or sponsorship.

Suitcasing refers to an individual or firm who attends the conference to solicit business, demonstrate their products, distribute materials, or engage in any sales activities without purchasing an exhibit/meeting space or sponsorship. 

Outboarding refers to an individual or firm who attends the conference in an unofficial capacity and hosts unauthorized exhibits, meetings, presentations, events, and any such related activity, in any space in the conference hotel.

All attendees must abide by the following Suitcasing and Outboarding Policies
  • Each person must register individually, under their company name, and must wear their official conference badge or credentials to access conference spaces and exhibit/meeting spaces depending on credential type.  A person using a badge under false credentials will be asked to forfeit their badge and leave the conference. 
  • Non-exhibitor or non-sponsor, and meeting-only attendees are prohibited from soliciting business or distributing marketing materials in any part of the conference venue. 

    All requests for event or meeting space during a CREFC event/meeting on hotel property will require CREFC approval. Any request made directly through the hotel for event or meeting space, including hospitality suites, will be forwarded to CREFC for approval. CREFC reserves the right to decline any event request and cancel any unapproved events or bookings. 

  • Violations: Any attendee or firm observed to be engaging in suitcasing or outboarding activities will be given a warning and be required to stop their activity. If their activity continues, the individual will be required to forfeit their badges without a refund and leave the conference. 

    If you observe any suitcasing or outboarding activities during the conference, please email Caitlin Adams, Director, Meetings & Membership, at cadams@crefc.org.
     

    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).

    Citigroup Global Markets

    Citi works tirelessly to provide consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial services and products.

    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.

    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. 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 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. 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.

    CoStar

    CoStar Risk Analytics® connects you to commercial property risk analytics trusted and tested by industry leaders for over 15 years. Gain insights into your portfolio and investment risk positions through our proprietary credit risk analysis and lender solutions. To learn more, please visit https://www.costarriskanalytics.com/.

    Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

    Gibson Dunn is a leading global law firm with 1,900 lawyers in 21 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.

    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

    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.

    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.

    Townhouse Partners

    Townhouse Partners, founded in 2009, is a premier financial due diligence firm specializing in the commercial real estate sector across the United States. Known for its consistency and unparalleled quality and client focused service, Townhouse Partners underwrites approximately one-third of all annual CMBS issuances and serves a diverse client base that includes lenders, REITs, banks, developers, hedge funds, and management companies. The firm provides comprehensive services in due diligence, underwriting, and asset management and surveillance across all asset types nationwide. With a team dedicated to delivering customized, responsive consulting, Townhouse Partners stands as a trusted partner for those navigating acquisition, disposition, financing, and ongoing asset management. For more information, visit www.townhousepartners.com.

    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

    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.

    UBS Investment Bank

    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

    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.

    Barclays

    Barclays is a consumer and wholesale bank, supporting individuals and small businesses through our consumer banking services, and larger businesses and institutions through our corporate and investment banking services. Our Corporate and Investment Bank is comprised of the Investment Banking, International Corporate Banking, Global Markets and Research businesses; it provides money managers, financial institutions, governments, supranational organisations and corporate clients with services and advice for their funding, financing, strategic and risk management needs. For further information about Barclays Corporate and Investment Bank, please visit our website www.cib.barclays.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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..

    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 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 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.

    SS&C Technologies

    SS&C provides lenders and servicers with a flexible loan servicing platform with integrated origination, asset management, accounting, investor reporting and borrower/lender self-service for complete loan lifecycle management. We provide market-leading business process automation and workflow management technology to significantly enhance workforce optimization and digital transformation. Our virtual data rooms and financing lifecycle solutions facilitate strategic initiatives such as mergers and acquisitions, corporate lending, debt sales, capital raising, and reporting. Our technology enables and secures the flow of information, empowering our customers to work more productively and with complete confidence.

    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 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, 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.

    Jones Walker LLP

    Jones Walker’s CMBS and Creditors’ Rights team provides end-to-end representation of creditors across the spectrum of distressed debt. We represent institutional and private investors, lenders, special servicers, and other creditors holding commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) and related distressed debt. Named among the nation’s top practitioners by Benchmark Litigation, The Best Lawyers in America®, Chambers USA, and other leading publications, our attorneys have represented creditors in jurisdictions and courtrooms across the country — including New York, Florida, and Texas — in matters involving multimillion-dollar, at-risk portfolios. When it comes to navigating the complex world of distressed CMBS and related debt, we are your trusted partner committed to achieving optimal results in every scenario.

    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.

    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. For more information, visit www.societegenerale.com.

    Starwood Property Trust

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