Manatt will sponsor IMN's Seventh Annual Winter Forum on Real Estate Opportunity & Private Fund Investing on January 13-15, 2010 at the Montage Resort in Laguna Beach. The largest gathering of its kind in the West, the Winter Forum provides the first chance for the Real Estate Opportunity Fund Industry to meet in 2010 to discuss the most pressing issues at the core of their business. With capital markets still challenged, a wall of debt maturities coming due and companies jostling for position as the Real Estate landscape continues to shift, 2010 is a pivotal year for the Real Estate industry.

Harold P. Reichwald, co-chair of Banking & Specialty Finance Practice Group, will moderate the panel "Private Equity Opportunities for Investing in Banks."