Global distressed investment forum

Real estate yields remain Opportunities in distressed investing have never been more attractive. Email hunter [at] distressed-debt-investing [dot] com. View Event. The summit will take place on Feb. Horn has been on the list of Forbes billionaires and is also known to be the only Brazilian entrepreneur to join The Giving Pledge, a select philanthropic billionaire club founded by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and investor Warren Buffett.

February 4th, 2015 | New York

As the distressed debt market navigates through the evolving changes in the economy, new types of deals and opportunities are opening up for prospective investors. Garfield is responsible for real estate debt originations and acquisitions, equity investing and forming strategic relationships with real estate related companies. Prior to joining Fortress, Mr. Garfield spent 12 years with Hudson Realty Capital LLC as a Managing Director responsible for loan originations, equity investments, business development and building and maintaining real estate industry relations. Garfield received his Global distressed investment forum. Garfield has received extensive recognition for his contributions to the commercial real estate and finance community.

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Distressed securities are securities over companies or government entities that are experiencing financial or operational distress, default , or are under bankruptcy. Purchasing or holding such distressed-debt creates significant risk due to the possibility that bankruptcy may render such securities worthless zero recovery. The deliberate investment in distressed securities as a strategy while potentially lucrative has a significant levels of risk as the securities may become worthless. To do so requires significant levels of resources and expertise to analyze each instrument and assess its position in an issuer’s capital structure along with the likelihood of ultimate recovery. The market developed for distressed securities as the number of large public companies in financial distress increased in the s and early s. Treasury bonds The distressed securities investment strategy exploits the fact many investors are unable to hold securities that are below investment grade.

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With the high prices of U. But there are profitable opportunities for those who seek them out; and many managers are moving outside of their conventional investment profiles to find. An extended period of low prices for oil, coal and metal is causing distress and volatility in the energy markets.

Distreased and slow growth are creating distressed opportunities in Europe. High leverage and inadequate capital structures are gradually building momentum for the next U. Richards’ day-to-day presence is critical in maximizing Marathon’s synergies and leveraging the intellectual capital throughout Marathon.

Richards co-founded Marathon with Louis Hanover in January The firm focuses on the global credit markets, specifically corporate debt both performing and distressed debt and the structured debt markets.

Distressrd employs professionals and maintains investmentt headquarters in New York, with investment offices in London and Singapore. Richards received his B. Practice Leader. With over 25 years of financial restructuring experience, Perry has represented over companies through various out-of-court and Chapter 11 proceedings. His assignments have included both chief restructuring officer and advisory roles for clients, complex debt restructurings, strategic planning, preparation of turnaround, business and plans of reorganization and cash flow analyses.

Perry has provided advice and executed on capital transactions, including financings, sales and investments.

He has also provided operational turnaround services and led transformation initiatives. Perry has extensive experience in the Bankruptcy Courts in the Districts of Delaware, New Jersey and New York, where he has testified and been qualified as an expert in matters distresssed to financial viability, valuation, general reorganization matters and financing.

Perry also was managing director of restructuring in a boutique investment banking firm. Perry has lectured to various groups on bankruptcy issues distreessed the reorganization process. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Cherniak was a senior investment professional at Venor Capital Management, an event-driven, credit opportunities fund.

At Venor, he was actively engaged in the oversight of investments across the capital structure with a focus on the building materials, energy, financials, healthcare, power and utilities industries. In addition, he served on the informal creditor committees for a number of large U. He received a B.

Lissner has 19 years of investment management experience. He is a co-founder and managing partner of Apex Fundamental Partners, a lower middle market, energy industry focused private equity firm. InApex acquired Alturdyne Power Systems, a company with over 40 years of experience in customized gas turbine and reciprocating engine power systems. Apex is currently in the midst of acquiring an Oilfield Services Company with the projected closing date in early January Apex has developed an expansive deal network with over 1, participants including attorneys, consultants, business brokers, investment bankers, accountants, lenders, and other proprietary deal sources.

These deal sources provide Apex with over transaction opportunities per year. Energy industry related investments included merchant energy, oil and gas services, fuel system products, and exploration and production companies. He has significant workout and restructuring experience and served on several official and unofficial creditor committees.

During his career he has also worked as a turnaround consultant for Lissner Associates, Ltd. He has been a frequent speaker at industry conferences on the subjects of middle market private equity and alternative debt financing.

Lissner graduated from Tulane University, A. Lissner is a certified public accountant and has been admitted to the Illinois State Bar since Previously, he was a Vice President in the High Yield Department of Bear Stearns responsible for trading distressed bank loans and private notes as well as identifying and analyzing investment opportunities in distressed securities.

He is the author of various articles on trade claims and creditors’ rights published in the Journal of Corporation Law. Vladimir earned a J. Before joining Blackstone inMr. Lurvey works with companies and investors across the energy value chain. Lurvey received an M. His practice focuses on providing restructuring advice and strategy to borrowers, lenders, investors and creditors.

In his current role, Mr. Giancaterino is responsible for managing both balance sheet and capital markets-oriented lending. This includes corporate lending to real estate companies, non-recourse project lending, and capital markets real estate lending for eventual CMBS distribution.

Offices include New York and other U. Mahmoud is global co-head of distressed credit global distressed investment forum special situations trading for HSBC. He is a native Dutch speaker and fluent in German. As Director of Research, Mr. Prior to joining Archview, Mr. Rosen worked as a senior research analyst focusing on U. Anthony C. Chukumba received a B. Gregory L. He has overall responsibility for Foru, and its investment strategies including leadership and supervision of the investment and portfolio management activities of the glonal and its affiliated investment funds.

He has led Versa and its predecessors since their founding in David D. Tawil is Co-founder of Maglan Capital and serves as President. Maglan is an event-driven, distressed-focused hedge fund. Prior to founding Maglan Capital inDavid was an investment banker with Credit Suisse, where he served as Director of Leveraged Finance and co-managed the fixed-income alternative asset trading business, focusing on sourcing and distreswed illiquid high-yield and distressed debt.

He began his legal career as an associate at Skadden, Arps. Lawrence V. His debtor representations have included Quigley Company Inc. Larry was inducted as a fellow in the 25th Class of the American Bankruptcy College and has also been recognized by The Legal United States as a leader in his field.

Larry obtained his J. Choose your topic for an interactive discussion with fellow attendees on the most pressing issues facing the industry. Network at small tables and participate in lively topical conversation. This provides an excellent opportunity to meet your industry peers in a unique setting. Profiting from Financial Liquidations. Fuks joined Halcyon in April distredsed Prior investmenf joining the firm, he worked as an Analyst at D. From toMr.

Fuks received his A. Fuks also received a J. Opportunities in Distressed Real Estate. While at Rialto, Mr. Vistressed to Rialto, Mr. Prior to Blackstone, Mr. Donald Sheets is Managing Partner of AlumCreek Holdings, a private equity platform with a focus on special-situation commercial real estate mortgage debt investing. Prior to founding AlumCreek Holdings, Mr. During his tenure with Square Mile, Mr. Sheets pioneered a proprietary financing mechanism that produced for the first time since the RTC Era a liquidating trust pass-through securitization secured primarily by performing and sub-performing commercial mortgage debt and led two of these capital markets transactions.

Sheets has sixteen years of leadership, proprietary research, acquisition, asset management, and restructuring experience across a variety of capital structures, asset types, and geographies. Sheets was appointed in as an Adjunct Assistant Professor g,obal both Columbia University goobal New York University, where he developed and teaches the first graduate-level distressed real estate investing coursework within each university’s curriculum.

Tanir Helayel is a partner and co-founder of PMD Capital, an alternative asset manager focused on investing in financial institutions and financial assets throughout Latin America. Prior to PMD, Mr. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Mr. Helayel spent his career focused on distressed financial institution and financial asset investing at Fortress Investment Group and Madison Capital.

He holds a B. Robert Amodeo has 27 years of investment experience. He started his career at The Bank of New York but soon thereafter joined Salomon Brothers Inc where he was responsible for analyzing various private investment partnerships, including venture-capital, oil-and-gas, and real-estate, equity and bond portfolios. Investment Management Awards for U. Fixed-Income Municipal. Recognition was also received this year from iMoneyNet and Lipper.

He is a CFA charter holder and has written various articles regarding the public finance market. Schultze currently serves on the following boards and committees:. Schultze is widely recognized as an expert on distressed and special situations investing and is often quoted in the media regarding high profile reorganization cases. He is also a frequent speaker at industry conferences and graduate schools such as Harvard Business School.

Although born and raised in the U.

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More foreign capital is flowing into As the The event will explore in greater depth the recent developments in the real estate mezzanine loan industry as well as unique investment strategies and He was previously the coordination secretary at the Investment Partnerships Program PPIlegislative adviser at the Chamber of Deputies, deputy director and executive director at National Department of Transportation Infrastructure DNITdixtressed auditing coordinator dustressed Transportation, among many other titles. The rise and prominence of independent sponsors have remained strong over the years but the landscape has been rapidly shifting. With the high prices of U. Meirelles pulled Brazil out of the deepest recession global distressed investment forum its history with institutional advances made between and with the public spending limitations, new State-Owned Companies Law and labor reform. As many investors become Today, most Gomes de Freitas is the Brazilian minister of disfressed. We will Under distrezsed circumstances is this an offer to sell or a solicitation to buy securities discussed on this site. Opportunity Zones were the subject of much discussed hype in since their creation in the tax. While market fundamentals are solid, Building on iGlobal’s Sincehe has been the president of the Brazilian Antitrust Authority.