Nominees Announced for Real Estate Finance & Investment's 3rd Annual EPIC Awards

New York, New York (PRWEB) April 3, 2008 -- Real Estate Finance & Investment - the Institutional Investor newsletter that provides weekly coverage of the U.S. commercial real estate property markets and capital markets - announced the nominees in its 3rd Annual EPIC Awards. The EPIC awards recognize the firms, deals and professionals that stood out in the real estate market for their innovation, creativity and Excellence in Property, Investment and Commercial mortgage-backed securities.

Nominees will be honored and winners will be announced at a gala dinner and awards ceremony on June 5th, 2008 at the Ritz-Carlton Battery Park in New York City.

Nominations are limited to transactions that were initiated or completed during 2007. Market impact will also be considered when determining nominees in all categories.

This year's awards categories and nominees are as follows:

REIT or REOC of the Year

* Lexington Realty Trust

* Behringer Harvard REIT I

* First Industrial Realty Trust

Fund of the Year

* The Blackstone Group

* Guggenheim Structured Real Estate III

* Broadway Partners

* KTR Capital Partners

Developer of the Year

* Taconic Investment Partners, Square Mile Capital

* Younan Properties

* DSF Group

Green Giant of the Year

* Principal Global Investors

* Morgan Stanley, Recurrent Energy

* CB Richard Ellis

Law Firm of the Year

* Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft

* Dechert

* Morrison & Foerster

Advisory Firm of the Year

* Realpoint

* Midland Loan Services

* Helmsley-Spear

Investment Firm of the Year

* H/2 Capital Partners

* Shorenstein Properties

* Wrightwood Capital

Innovator of the Year

* Lehman Brothers, Bank of America

* Moody's Investors Service, Real Estate Analytics

* GFI Group

CDO Manager of the Year

* CWCapital Investments

* Legg Mason

* Centerline Capital Group

CMBS Deal of the Year

* GS Mortgage Securities 2007-EOP

Underwriters: The Blackstone Group, Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns and Bank of America

* Wachovia Bank Commercial Mortgage Trust, 2007-C30

Underwriter: Wachovia

* Greenwich Capital Commercial Funding Corp., 2007-GG9

Underwriters: RBS Greenwich Capital and Goldman Sachs

Bank of the Year

* Goldman Sachs

* Morgan Stanley

* Bear Stearns

Deal of the Year

* 388-390 Greenwich Street Acquisition

Underwriters: SLGreen, PB Capital, and Westdeutsche ImmobilienBank

* Archstone-Smith Privatization

Underwriters: Tishman Speyer Properties, Lehman Brothers, and Bank of America

* Hilton Hotels Privatization

Underwriters: The Blackstone Group, Bear Stearns, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley

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