2024

Property valuation is a major issue affecting all real estate asset classes in today’s market, impacting lending and sale transactions, litigation and development transactions. We’ve been here before, but what’s different this time?

This panel will discuss a broad range of topics that arise in real estate-driven bankruptcy cases, including issues for landlords with respect to post-petition lease restructuring and the disposition of personal property by debtor tenants; determining the appropriate cramdown interest rates for different real estate sectors in a volatile interest rate environment; special issues implicated in bankruptcies of hospitality-focused real properties; and the particular challenges involved in restructuring partially developed properties.

This panel will discuss the ethical implications of AI technologies and how they may affect valuation, including issues related to bias, fairness and responsible AI.

This panel will discuss the impact of today’s persistently higher-interest-rate environment from several perspectives, including valuation, operational free cash flow and financial flexibility, private equity and M&A transaction activity, and liability management (LME) and restructuring transaction opportunities.