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2025 ULI Fall Meeting 2025 ULI Fall Meeting
, November 04 – 06, 2025
Moderator

Ms. Katherine Bissett

Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP

Katherine C. (KC) Bissett is a partner at Cox, Castle & Nicholson, specializing in representing lenders and borrowers in all their commercial real estate finance needs. Katherine has extensive experience steering and closing sophisticated and complex real estate finance transactions, including acquisition, bridge and construction financing, ground lease financing, mezzanine loans, revolving credit facilities, and secondary market transactions. She regularly handles transactions throughout the United States, and her experience spans a broad spectrum of property types, including undeveloped land, farmland, hotel/resort, retail, commercial, and multifamily and mixed-use projects. She maintains a practical deal-making approach using her experience with asset management work (including loan modifications, assumptions, collateral substitutions and work outs) to add valuable perspective that takes into account the entire life of a loan. Katherine received her J.D. from UCLA School of Law, where she was a co-founder of the Real Estate Law Association and was designated a member of the Order of the Coif. She earned her B.A. in International Studies from Boston College.

Speaking at

Tue Oct 29 4:00 PM — 5:00 PM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time Resorts World Las Vegas - Level 2, Blossom ABC

Alternatives to Traditional Financing: The Rise of Debt Funds

Because of the regional banking crisis and repricing of office and multifamily properties, regional and even larger banks have largely abandoned the real estate financing market generally and construction specifically. Developers have also seen an erosion in lenders willing to do large-scale residential projects. Debt funds, many of which are backed by global insurance companies, are filling the gap. The panel will discuss the current landscape of development, construction, and repositioning loans—who the players are, the products they are considering, and how they differ from traditional bank lenders.