Stroock Event Attracts Real Estate’s Stars

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.