Monday, 19th of May, 2025

8:00 – Networking Breakfast

9:00 – State of the Sponsor Backed Lending Market in 2025
   Jim Roche, Co-Founder & Chief Credit Manager at Willow Tree Credit Partners
   Tom Newberry, Chief Credit Officer at Sound Point Capital
   Rick Persutti, Managing Director at Kayne Anderson
   Rohan Pandit, Investment Director at Lufin Partners (moderator)

9:30 – Dedicated Lending Strategies in Private Credit
   Caleb Kramer, Portfolio Manager at The Forest Road Company
   Martin Friedman, Managing Member at Pharmakon Advisors
   Manjari Goenka, Managing Director at Brandywine Group Advisors (moderator)

10:00 – Coffee Break

10:15 – Commercial Real Estate: Is The Bottom In?
   Mark Fogel, President & CEO at ACRES Capital
   Rich Byrne, President at Benefit Street
   Matt Weinstein, Partner & Co-CIO at Axonic Capital
   Nora Pickens, Partner at Mill Creek Capital Advisors (moderator)

10:45 – Residential & Mortgage Lending Strategies
   Matt Miller, Managing Director at Bayview Capital
   Jon Babkow, Senior Managing Director and Head of Residential Credit at Pretium Partners
   Greg Lippmann, CIO at LibreMax Capital
   Joe Sciortino, Senior Portfolio Manager at UBS Global Asset Management (moderator)

11:15 – Asset-Backed Lending
   Matt Bizcak, Managing Director at Fortress Investment Group
   P.J. Collins, Managing Director at AB CarVal
   Mitch Soiefer, Partner at SLR Capital Partners
   John Cocke, Partner & Deputy CIO at Corbin Capital (moderator)

11:45 – Lunch

1:00 – Co-Investments: Being More Than Just an LP
   John Cocke, Partner & Deputy CIO at Corbin Capital
   Joe Sciortino, Senior Portfolio Manager at UBS Global Asset Management
   Omar Naeem, CINO at Lw3 (moderator)

1:30 – How Special Sits Work in Private Credit
   Christopher Santana, Managing Principal at Monarch Alternative Capital
   Leslee Cowen, Managing Director at Fortress Investment Group
   Sid Malhotra, CIO at Kactus Capital (moderator)

2:00 – Litigation Finance & NAV Lending
   Brandon Baer, Founder & CIO at Contingency Capital
   Sarah Johnson, Head of Litigation Investing at The D. E. Shaw Group
   Cesar Bello, Research & Portfolio Management at Corbin Capital Partners
   Benjamin Finestone, Partner at Quinn Emanuel (moderator)

2:30 – Lw3 Coffee and Networking Time

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