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Hospitality Lawyer Insights from MTM: #10. When will CMBS come back?

21 May 2009

Hospitality Lawyer Insights from Meet the Money® 2009: The hospitality lawyers of JMBM’s Global Hospitality Group® have presented an annual hotel conference for 19 years. On May 5-7, 2009 in Los Angeles, California, nearly 400 industry leaders gathered at the Sheraton LAX for Meet the Money® 2009.


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Commentary and observations from the hospitality lawyers of JMBM and other industry experts on some of the critical industry issues are available at Hospitality Lawyer Insights.

Here is the latest in the Hospitality Lawyer Insights series on some of the most critical issues of our day.

#10. When will CMBS come back?

Suzanne Mellen:

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Suzanne R. Mellen CRE MAI
Managing Director
HVS International
(415) 268-0351
smellen@hvs.com



“We need liquidity to drive values. We need to replace the kind of capital provided by CMBS.”

Robert B. Stiles:

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Robert B. Stiles
Executive Vice President & Principal
Cushman & Wakefield Sonnenblick Goldman
(415) 658-3601
robert.stiles@cushwake.com



“CMBS is about 25% of the $3.4 trillion in real estate debt, but the percentage was even higher in the last couple of years. The percentage of CMBS debt in the hospitality arena is even more disproportionate.”

Jonathan Roth:

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Jonathan Roth
Principal
Canyon Capital Realty Advisors
310-272-1500
jroth@canyonpartners.com



“But CMBS doesn’t exist anymore. All the infrastructure that supported CMBS is gone. What will replace it?”
Barry Olson

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Barry Olson
Managing Director
Archorn Group, LP
972-368-2573
barry.olson@archon.com



“We need to have some kind of securitization. The issue transcends CMBS — we have to addresses all asset-backed securitizations.”

Steve Van:

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Steve Van
President and CEO
Prism Hotels & Resorts
214-257-1011
svan@prismhotels.com



“CMBS is a wonderful vehicle that will come back. It’s good for investors as it allows them not to pay taxes twice. One of the problems with it in its latest form is that it was not transparent enough. Transparency was good in 2000, so it is possible to achieve.”

Bruce G. Wiles:

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Bruce G. Wiles
Managing Director & Principal
Thayer Lodging Group
(301) 581-5910
bruce.wiles@meristar.com



“Due to the sheer numbers involved, there will be a mortgage-backed securities replacement for CMBS. There has to be. There will be smaller loans, underwritten differently. There will be a deleveraging, and you will have to rework your capital stack. But it will come back in some form.”

Barry Olson

“I agree that CMBS will come back in some form. We will go back to “Lending 101″ including recourse, guarantees, and sounder underwriting.”

Patrick O’Neal

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Patrick O’Neal
Vice President
Midland Loan Services, Inc.
913-253-9623
patrick.oneal@midlandls.com



“While there are many similarities to the last downturn, this one is different in many ways. CMBS is fairly new, so few borrowers understand how it works when there is a default in the CMBS context. The industry is getting a good education as to how CMBS works and where problems. Lie. Will these be fixed for whatever replaces CMBS?”
Jim Butler :

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Jim Butler
Chairman, Global Hospitality Group
Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro, LLP
310-201-3526
jbutler@jmbm.com



For a discussion with the experts on working with CMBS special servicers on troubled hotel loans, see Hospitality Lawyer Insights from MTM: #5. Troubled hotel loans in CMBS – working with special servicers.

This is Jim Butler, author of www.HotelLawBlog.com and hotel lawyer, signing off. We’ve done more than $87 billion of hotel transactions and have developed innovative solutions to unlock value from troubled hotel transactions. Who’s your hotel lawyer?

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