Partner Kris Ferranti moderated a discussion with fellow lawyers from Shearman & Sterling's Real Estate, Tax, Financial Restructuring & Insolvency and Environmental practices about the opportunities that exist for investors in distressed commercial real estate assets and the legal issues and considerations they must keep in mind.

The lawyers who joined Kris in this timely conversation are partners Malcolm Montgomery, Lisa Brill and John Opar, counsel Michael Pettingill and Jocelyn Redman and associates Jonathan Newman, Eric Felcher, Horton McKinney and Helen Quigley from the firm's Real Estate practice; partner Michael Shulman and counsel Derek Kershaw from the Tax practice; partner Ned Schodek from the Financial Restructuring & Insolvency practice and counsel Jason Pratt and Mehran Massih of the Environmental practice.

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