NEW YORK CITY-Around 400 of the CRE industry’s best and brightest checked in and enjoyed the views at a cocktail reception hosted by Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP late Thursday evening. The event--held on the 36^th floor of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel at 60 Columbus Circle--featured attendees from Worldwide Holdings, JP Morgan, Extell Development Company, RCG/Longview, the Feil Organization, UBS Securities and many others.

Notable guests included Worldwide Holdings partners James Stanton and David Lowenfeld; JP Morgan’s global head of real estate assets Joe Azelby, head of US Real Estate Kevin Faxon and global head of product development Steven Greenspan; Extell Development Company’s SVP of finance and investor relations Mark Kwestel and EVP of leasing Carol Richardson; RCG/Longview’s partners Michael Boxer and Jay Anderson; The Feil Organization’s principal Jeffrey Feil; and UBS Securities’ head of CMBS and asset-backed securities group Ken Cohen, Brett Ersoff, head of commercial mortgage loan conduit program, and John Herman, head of commercial real estate credit of the company’s CMBS lending group.

GlobeSt.com joined in on the party:

Stephen Ross, chairman and CEO of Related Cos. poses for GlobeSt.com with Leonard Boxer, chairman of the Stroock & Stroock & Lavan real estate practice.

Stroock is headquartered in New York and also has offices in Miami and Los Angeles.