Alexandria, Va. – As the commercial real estate landscape continues to face challenges due to higher vacancies and weakening cash flows, ABI has gathered together a roster of top distressed real estate experts to discuss these critical issues and more at the 2025 Distressed Real Estate Symposium, being held March 26-28 at the Pendry Newport Beach in Newport Beach, Calif. With modifications in work culture and record amounts of maturing loans, commercial real estate faces the prospect of a surge in defaults as property owners are forced to refinance empty or nearly empty office spaces at higher rates.
Many of the key players in the commercial real estate space will be providing their perspectives on these challenges and more during the symposium, including what to expect moving forward. The keynote address at the symposium will be delivered by Lisa Picard of Oxygen Investment Management (Seattle), formerly CEO of Blackstone. The symposium’s co-chairs are Matthew Bordwin of Keen-Summit Capital Partners LLC (New York) and Michael A. Criscito of FTI Consulting, Inc. (Los Angeles).
Sessions at the 2025 ABI Distressed Real Estate Symposium include:
· CRE Workouts, Still the Same
· REIT Restructurings
· Guarantees
· Distressed Retail & Real Estate: Rebound or Reckoning?
· Investor Perspectives: Buying in Distress
· Fiduciary Panel
· Understanding the Role of Special Servicers in a Complex Debt Structure & CMBS
For the full schedule, please click here.
Press interested in attending the symposium should contact ABI Public Affairs Officer John Hartgen at 703-894-5935 or jhartgen@abi.org.
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ABI is the largest multi-disciplinary, nonpartisan organization dedicated to research and education on matters related to insolvency. ABI was founded in 1982 to provide Congress and the public with unbiased analysis of bankruptcy issues. The ABI membership includes nearly 10,000 attorneys, accountants, bankers, judges, professors, lenders, turnaround specialists and other bankruptcy professionals, providing a forum for the exchange of ideas and information. For additional information on ABI, visit www.abiworld.org. For additional conference information, visit http://www.abi.org/calendar-of-events.
