 Breakfast Meeting Details
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BREAKFAST MEETING Capital Credit Crunch, Part II Liquidity Issues and Distressed Debt Opportunities — A View from the Trenches Tuesday, October 9 , 2007 8 - 8:30 a.m. - Registration, Networking, Continental Breakfast 8:30 - 9 a.m. - Presentation 9 - 9:30 a.m. - Audience Q&A at Club 101 101 Park Avenue
at 40th Street, NYC Lenders
and Equity Providers Only • Advance Registration Not Required Members - No Charge • Nonmembers - $40 at the door Featuring
Russel S. Bernard Managing Principal Westport Capital Partners, LLC and Barry S. Blattman Managing Partner Brookfield Asset Management Russel S. Bernard is Managing Principal
of Westport Capital Partners, LLC. Prior to founding Westport Capital in 2005, Mr. Bernard was a Principal at Oaktree
and the Portfolio Manager for Oaktree’s real estate funds. He was responsible for the management of a series of
closed-end real estate funds with over $2 billion in total committed capital. He led a team of professionals who assisted
in the investment and management of Oaktree’s real estate portfolio. Prior to joining Oaktree in 1995, Mr. Bernard
was a Managing Director of TCW and Portfolio Manager of the TCW Special Credits Distressed Mortgage Fund. Prior to his
tenure at TCW, Mr. Bernard was a Partner in Win Properties, Inc., a national real estate investment company. During
his eight years with the firm, he was responsible for the acquisition, financing, and operation of a national real estate
portfolio. Before joining Win Properties, Mr. Bernard was with Time Equities, Inc., a New York real estate company,
for three years. Prior to that, he was a Staff Accountant at Price Waterhouse in New York. Mr. Bernard is the
previous Chairman of the Board of Lodgian, a Delaware corporation listed on the American Stock Exchange. Mr. Bernard
holds a B.S. in Business Management and Marketing from Cornell University. Westport Capital Partners, LLC, provides domestic and international
investment opportunities to institutional and private clients. Headquartered in Westport, CT, the firm also has offices
in Los Angeles and Mumbai, India. Westport applies a fundamental, value-oriented approach to investing in real estate.
While maintaining the flexibility to purchase real properties, mortgages, equity, and debt in private or public markets, Westport
seeks to capitalize on market inefficiencies and distressed opportunities to generate higher returns with less than commensurate
risk. o - o - o Barry S. Blattman is Managing Partner of Brookfield Asset Management
LLC, responsible for business development, relationship management and marketing. Brookfield is a global asset manager
focused on property, power, and other infrastructure assets, with over US$75 billion of assets under management. Brookfield
owns and manages one of the largest portfolios of both premier office properties and hydroelectric power generation facilities
as well as transmission and timberland operations, located in North and South America and Europe. Brookfield manages
numerous funds with strategies that include debt, corporate restructurings, opportunistic real estate, and Brazilian shopping
centers. Prior
to joining Brookfield in 2002, Barry held the title of Managing Director at Merrill Lynch with responsibility, at different
points in time, for numerous businesses, including the commercial real estate debt group, the Latin American debt capital
markets group, and the structured finance group. He also served as a senior investment banking relationship manager
for the office property client group and for financial institutions, specialty finance companies, and opportunity funds focused
on real estate. Barry began his career in 1986 at Salomon Brothers. He holds an A.B. from the University of Michigan and an
M.B.A. from New York University. He is a member of YPO and involved with the University of Michigan as both chair of
the Organizational Studies Leadership Committee and co-chair of the Barger Leadership Pathways Institute.
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