Finding Value: Risks & Opportunities in Japan’s Emerging Securitization Market

May 8, 2002

Half-Day Conference

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Japan’s economic restructuring and the resulting disposal of billions in dollars of non-performing loans are creating unprecedented opportunities in structured finance. Whether you’re on the buy-side as an investor or on the sell-side as a deal-maker, you need to know how to assess the Japanese market in order to make the right decisions. This half-day conference brings together rating agency experts, financiers, legal specialists and others to discuss how to make the most of Japan’s structured finance market.

Agenda

8 – 8:30 am	Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 8:45 am	Welcome and Opening Comments John Wheeler, Vice President, Japan Society Yoshiki Ikeda, President and CEO, Rating and Investment Information, Inc. Stephen W. Joynt, President and CEO, Fitch Ratings
8:45 – 9:45 am	Opening Keynote Wilbur Ross, Chairman & CEO, WL Ross & Co. LLC The Outlook for Economic Reform and Japan’s Bad Loan Problem
9:45 – 10:55 am	Panel One What’s the Opportunity in Japan? An Overview of Japan’s Structured Finance Market Charles Schorin, Executive Director, Morgan Stanley Frederick Utley, Partner, Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells LLP Daniel Alpert, Managing Director, Westwood Capital, LLC Moderator David Schlesinger, Executive Vice President & Editor, Americas, Reuters
10:55 – 11:10 am	Coffee Break
11:10 – 12:20 pm	Panel Two Finding Value: Investment Opportunities in Japanese Securitization Jeffrey Zavattero, Managing Director, Head of Integrated Credit Trading, Deutsche Securities, Tokyo Ann Rutledge, Founding Principal, CreditSpectrum Frank Cavallo, Managing Director, Global Securitized Markets, Citigroup Corporate & Investment Bank Masako Osako, Senior Director, Structured Finance Japan, Fitch Ratings Moderator David Schlesinger, Executive Vice President & Editor, Americas, Reuters
12:20 – 1:20 pm	Panel Three Corporate Restructuring and Securitization: A Recent Case Study Martha Konishi, Analyst, Structured Finance Rating Department, Rating and Investment Information, Inc. Kevin Stephenson, Managing Director, Fitch Ratings
1:20 – 1:30 pm	Closing Comments Hidetaka Tanaka, Deputy Managing Director & Head of Structured Finance Rating Department, Rating and Investment Information, Inc.
1:30 – 2:30 pm	Buffet Luncheon

Wednesday, May 8, 2002
8:00 am