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Course Information
  • smart_display Format

    Live Online with Live Q&A

  • signal_cellular_alt Difficulty Level

    Intermediate

  • work Practice Area

    Real Property - Finance

Date & Time
  • event Date

    Tuesday, September 9, 2025

  • schedule Time

    1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT

  • timer Program Length

    90 minutes

Credit Information

  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.

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This CLE webinar will explore the current commercial real estate (CRE) market and how lenders are handling performing or non-performing loans in light of pending and upcoming market turbulence. The panel will also discuss adjustments to existing transactions now and new provisions to explore in loan agreements going forward.

Faculty

Jon S. Robins
Shareholder
Greenberg Traurig LLP

Mr. Robins handles a broad range of finance, equity investment, and real estate activities for clients in the private equity fund, capital market, institutional lender, REIT, hedge fund, developer, owner/operator, corporate, and investor space. For more than two decades, he has represented lenders and equity providers, including conduit lenders, banks, insurance companies, family offices, and private equity funds, in diverse matters such as the formation of joint ventures, structuring and making preferred equity investments, the origination, purchase, sale, restructuring, and enforcement of mortgage loans; mezzanine and construction loans; subordinate ("B") notes; participation and co-lender interests; and in structuring and negotiating inter-creditor, co-lender, and participation and servicing agreements. In complex and novel structures of mortgage and mezzanine loans, he often represents CMBS lenders and borrowers.

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Description

Real estate finance industry trade groups have reported an overall increase in CRE lending in 2025. Despite this positive momentum, there is still a great deal of distress and rising delinquencies in various sectors of the market. Because of a large number of maturities coming due for both balance sheet and conduit loans in the coming months, the current CRE lending landscape is becoming extremely challenging for both borrowers and lenders.

To offset the potential of a CRE crash and to stave off defaults, banks may consider offering borrowers loan extensions and modifications, selling derivatives to fix interest costs, and offering subsidized loans to investors to purchase defaulted loans.

Listen as our authoritative panel discusses the impact of the current CRE market on existing and future real estate finance transactions and steps lenders can take now to mitigate defaults and near-term losses on current and future loans.

Outline

I. Overview of the current CRE market

A. Interest rate woes

B. Number of loans nearing maturity

C. Market outlook

II. Types of lenders/deals most negatively impacted by the current market

A. Common distress scenarios

B. Workout viability in the current market

C. Trending solutions

D. Lender remedies

III. Practical steps to mitigate defaults and avoid losses

A. Default letters

B. File review for lenders and borrowers

C. Pre-negotiation agreements

D. Loan modifications

E. Forbearance agreements

IV. Strategies and key takeaways

Benefits

The panel will review these and other key issues:

  • How should loan documents address commercial and retail tenant defaults due to the current market pressures?
  • What changes may be necessary to debt-service coverage ratios and other covenants to avoid loan defaults or cash management triggers?
  • How should loans involving future disbursements be tailored to address economic uncertainty?
  • How should loan terms be structured to account for the Federal Reserve's current approach to rate cuts?