"The Long Road Back: 6th Annual Transwestern/Real Estate Forum Capital Markets Symposium,"

The event will focus on how firms with a global focus will have an edge in the coming climate. It will also tackle possible signs of life in the CMBS market, the Fed's role in assisting the industry, strategic opportunities in 2010, the budding IPO market and the need for equity in distressed-asset deals.

Steve Pumper, executive managing director of investment services at Transwestern, and Michael Desiato, vice president and group publisher of ALM's Real Estate Media Group, will moderate the panel. Panelists featured are: Frank Cohen, senior managing director at Blackstone Real Estate Advisors; C. Stephen Cordes, managing director at ING Clarion Partners; Charles B. Leitner III, global of alternative investments at Rreef; Todd T. Liker, managing director at Oaktree Capital Management; and Schecky Schechner, managing director and US head of real estate investment banking at Barclay's.

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