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

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

Steve Pumper, executive managing director of investment servicesat Transwestern, and Michael Desiato, vice president and grouppublisher of ALM's Real Estate Media Group, will moderate thepanel. Panelists featured are: Frank Cohen, senior managingdirector 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, managingdirector at Oaktree Capital Management; and Schecky Schechner,managing director and US head of real estate investment banking atBarclay's.