CONFERENCE

SPONSORS

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Thu, 8:30PM-9:30PM

Awards Sponsor

AlixPartners is a results-driven global consulting firm that specializes in helping businesses respond quickly and decisively to their most critical challenges—from urgent performance improvement to complex restructuring, from risk mitigation to accelerated transformation. These are the moments when everything is on the line—a sudden shift in the market, an unexpected performance decline, a time-sensitive deal, a fork-in-the-road decision. We stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients until the job is done, and only measure our success in terms of the results we deliver. We partner with you to make the right decisions and take the right actions. And we are right by your side. When it really matters.

www.alixpartners.com

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Conference App

CR3 Partners is a national financial advisory consulting firm serving organizations and stakeholders across a broad range of industries during times of transition, opportunity, stress, or distress. Our team consists of seasoned executives and industry veterans who bring a profound bias for action and exceptional results, with a keen focus on turnaround management, restructuring, forensic accounting, litigation support, and operational improvement services. From our offices in Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, and Richmond, CR3 Partners infuses agility, passion, experience and value creation into everything we do. To discover how we can transform the future of your business, please visit us at www.cr3partners.com.

www.cr3partners.com

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Wed, 6:30PM-8:00PM

Opening Reception

Deloitte’s Turnaround & Restructuring (Deloitte T&R) practice is a leader in helping organizations transform disruption or transition, financial difficulty, or crisis into opportunities for resilience. Having worked with both large multinational organizations and mid-market companies, we apply our deep experience and foresight to help our clients, their creditors, and other stakeholders achieve successful outcomes. Whether the goal is to enhance the performance of a company or guide stakeholders through complex turnaround or bankruptcy reorganization, our team works closely with the client to quickly understand their business and their most urgent issues.

www.deloitte.com/us/tandr

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Wed, 6:30PM-8:00PM

Opening Reception

Duane Morris LLP, a law firm with more than 800 attorneys in offices across the United States and internationally, is asked by a broad array of clients to provide innovative solutions to today's legal and business challenges. Evolving from a partnership of prominent lawyers in Philadelphia a century ago, Duane Morris' modern organization stretches from the U.S. to Europe and the Middle East, and now across Asia. Throughout this global expansion, Duane Morris has remained committed to preserving its collegial, collaborative culture that has attracted many talented attorneys. The firm's leadership, and outside observers like the Harvard Business School, believe this culture is truly unique among large law firms, and helps account for the firm continuing to prosper throughout changing economic and industry conditions.

www.duanemorris.com

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Conference App

Epiq is a worldwide provider of legal and business services, serving law firms, corporations, financial institutions, and government agencies—helping them streamline the administration of business operations, class action and mass tort, eDiscovery, regulatory, compliance, restructuring, legal transformation, and bankruptcy matters. In the restructuring space, Epiq provides full support for all types of bankruptcy and restructuring cases for companies of all sizes including pre-filing consulting, claims management, solicitation and balloting, creditor notification, strategic communications, escrow services and disbursement, and virtual data rooms.

www.epiqglobal.com

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Tote Bags

FTI Consulting is an independent global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations manage change, mitigate risk and resolve disputes: financial, legal, operational, political and regulatory, reputational and transactional. Individually, each practice is a leader in its specific field, staffed with experts recognized for the depth of their knowledge and a track record of making an impact. Collectively, FTI Consulting offers a comprehensive suite of services designed to assist clients across the business cycle — from proactive risk management to the ability to respond rapidly to unexpected events and dynamic environments.

www.fticonsulting.com

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Thu, 7:30PM-8:30PM

Annual Dinner

Huron is a global consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive strategic growth, ignite innovation and navigate constant change. Through a combination of strategy, expertise and creativity, we help clients accelerate operational, digital and cultural transformation, enabling the change they need to own their future. Huron’s business advisory experts offer a full suite of services in key areas, including capital advisory, commercial dispute advisory, investment banking, interim management, operational improvement, restructuring and turnaround, transaction advisory, and valuation.

www.huronconsultinggroup.com

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Thu, 7:30PM-8:30PM

Annual Dinner

Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP (PSZJ) is the nation’s leading corporate restructuring boutique, with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Wilmington (DE), New York, and Houston. PSZJ attorneys are experienced in representing all major constituencies in bankruptcy proceedings and out-of-court workouts, including debtors, committees, trustees, bondholders, asset-purchasers and third-party plan proponents. PSZJ also handles sophisticated business litigation and transactional matters as part of its renowned practice. The firm is perennially named a “Best Law Firm” by U.S. News & World Report, and was named a 2021 and 2020 Bankruptcy and Restructuring “Practice Group of the Year” by Law360.

www.pszjlaw.com

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Wi-fi/Internet Sponsor

PwC’s crisis and restructuring professionals advise on solutions for a range of needs. We work with companies to evaluate strategic and financial alternatives and assist with corporate reorganizations, evaluating liquidity positions and advising on operating efficiency and margin enhancement. We help organizations execute the quick, decisive action necessary to pivot them towards a stronger future.

www.pwc.com

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Thu, 7:30PM-8:30PM

Annual Dinner

Stretto delivers a full spectrum of case-management services, depository solutions, and technology tools to fiduciaries. We offer a comprehensive suite of corporate-restructuring and consumer-bankruptcy capabilities along with multi-faceted deposit and disbursement services. Sitting at the center of the bankruptcy ecosystem, Stretto leverages deep-industry expertise and market insights to provide an unparalleled portfolio of solutions. Our team seamlessly integrates streamlined workflows and best-in-class technology to orchestrate the case-management process and create harmony for professionals and their teams. For more information about Stretto, visit www.stretto.com.

www.stretto.com

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Wed, 5:30PM-6:30PM

Young Professionals Reception

Privately-held since 1983, Alvarez & Marsal is a leading global professional services firm that delivers performance improvement, restructuring & turnaround and business advisory services to organizations seeking to transform operations, catapult growth and accelerate results through decisive action. We advise on every aspect of the process from strategic direction to liquidity management to business plan development, helping management, investors, or creditors seeking to accelerate performance, overcome challenges and maximize value across the corporate and investment lifecycles. We fill executive officer roles, on an interim basis, to help guide companies through crises and other challenging business or economic environments.

www.alvarezandmarsal.com

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Thu, 6:30PM-7:30PM

Cocktail Reception

Your goals define our mission. Whether an immediate need or a long-term objective, ArentFox Schiff helps you reach your full potential. As industry insiders, we partner with you to develop practical business strategies and sophisticated legal solutions to achieve today’s targets and anticipate tomorrow’s problems. We get you across the finish line.  ArentFox Schiff LLP is internationally recognized in core industries where business and the law intersect. With more than 650 lawyers and policy professionals, the firm serves as a destination for an international roster of companies, governments, individuals, and trade associations.

www.afslaw.com

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Fri, 6:00PM-10:30PM

An Evening at Fenway Park - Red Sox Game

CohnReznick LLP is one of the leading advisory, accounting, and tax firms in the United States, combining the deep resources of a national firm with the hands-on, agile approach that today's dynamic business environment demands. Many of the country’s top companies, lenders, law firms, and investment firms call on CohnReznick’s Restructuring and Dispute Resolution team to assist in transitional, stressed, and distressed situations. The Firm, with origins dating back to 1919, is headquartered in New York, NY with 2,700 employees in offices nationwide. CohnReznick is a member of Nexia International, a global network of independent accountancy, tax, and business advisors.

www.cohnreznick.com

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Fri, 6:00PM-10:30PM

An Evening at Fenway Park - Red Sox Game

Ernst & Young’s global network of restructuring professionals can help you develop financial and operational strategies to help improve liquidity, credit availability and shareholder return. Where ever you are located, our multi-disciplinary team offers integrated, objective advice and helps you to evaluate capital options, improve the benefits of transactions and achieve your strategic goals —whether you are buying or selling a distressed asset, restructuring your business or dealing with under performance or cash management. We provide you with creative, collaborative advice supported by our significant industry and sector knowledge to create a tailored approach for you.

www.ey.com/en_gl/restructuring-turnaround

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Thu, 7:20AM-8:20AM

Breakfast

Protiviti is a global consultancy that helps companies solve problems in finance, operations, risk, technology, and governance. Our Restructuring & Litigation Services practice specializes in providing restructuring, insolvency and crisis management, litigation services, and forensic accounting. Our professionals have extensive experience in development and implementation of plans of reorganization, stakeholder negotiations, asset liquidation, and a full range of valuation services and expert testimony. We represent debtors, creditors’ committees, secured lenders, fiduciaries and other interested parties. Protiviti, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Robert Half International Inc., and its member firms employ over 6,000 professionals in more than 75 offices in 28 countries.

 

 

www.protiviti.com

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Thu, 8:40AM-9:30AM

Keynote

VALID8 Financial is a Seattle-based software firm with a long history and deep expertise in forensic accounting services and software product development. Its flagship product is a software as a service (SaaS) platform designed to streamline forensic accounting procedures, providing reconciled financial transaction data and analytic tools for forensic accountants, bankruptcy attorneys, trustees and receivers. Using Valid8 software results in faster, as well as more effective and efficient way of answering the question: "Where did the money go?" and leading to enhanced faster case resolution. In addition to forensic accounting tools, Valid8 has developed a broader set of functionality for auditors, leveraging the same principle of transparency for cash-based transactions. Find out more at http://valid8.cash.   

 

www.valid8.cash

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Thu, 9:30PM-11:00PM

Dessert Reception

The Bankruptcy and Corporate Restructuring Section of Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP brings a depth of legal knowledge, technological skill, and creativity to complex and fast-paced reorganizations, restructurings, liquidations, and distressed acquisitions and sales. Our 40 bankruptcy attorneys have been able to achieve optimal results in a wide array of industries. Publications such as U.S. News and World Report and Chambers USA continue to rank Young Conaway as one of the nation’s preeminent insolvency practices. Young Conaway’s bankruptcy and corporate restructuring attorneys represent clients’ interests in Delaware, the Southern District of New York, as well as other bankruptcy courts throughout the United States.

www.ycst.com

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Pocket Agenda

Alston & Bird LLP has grown to become a national AmLaw 50 firm while remaining steeped in a culture with client service and teamwork as the cornerstones of all that we do. We develop, assemble and nurture the strongest and broadest array of legal talent and expertise necessary to meet our clients’ needs in an ever–changing and fast–paced environment. Alston & Bird’s unique culture and core values have been nurtured for more than a century. They define who we are and how we interact with our clients and with each other. From the founding of the firm in the late 1800s, collegiality, teamwork, loyalty, diversity, individual satisfaction, fairness and professional development have been guiding principles and values by which we measure ourselves.

www.alston.com

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Thu, 2:00PM-4:00PM

Boston Duck Tour

Development Specialists, Inc. (DSI) is one of the leading providers of management consulting and financial advisory services, including turnaround consulting, financial restructuring, litigation support and forensic accounting. Our clients include business owners, private-equity investors, corporate boards, financial institutions, secured lenders, bondholders and unsecured creditors. For almost 40 years, DSI has been guided by a single objective: maximizing value for all stakeholders. With our highly skilled and diverse team of professionals, offices in the U.S. and international affiliates, and an unparalleled range of experience, DSI not only achieves that objective, but has also built a solid reputation as an industry leader.

www.dsiconsulting.com

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Fri, 12:00PM-1:30PM

Lunch & Keynote

East West Bank’s Specialty Deposit Services team offers companies and their advisors specialized banking and treasury management services designed to meet the specific needs of professional fiduciaries, state and federal court officers, debtors in possession, bankruptcy/restructuring attorneys, receivers, chief restructuring officers, class-action administrators, assignees and chapter 7 trustees. We are one of the strongest financial institutions in the nation, adding the security that you are depositing funds with a bank that has a solid history of stability and growth. We are consistently ranked as a top 15 bank in the nation by Forbes. In 2018, East West achieved record earnings for a ninth consecutive year. East West Bank is approved to hold bankruptcy deposits nationwide.

 

www.eastwestbank.com

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Fri, 3:30PM-4:00PM

Refreshment Break

Foley & Lardner LLP looks beyond the law to focus on the constantly evolving demands facing our clients and their industries. With over 1,100 lawyers in 24 offices across the United States, Mexico, Europe, and Asia, Foley approaches client service by first understanding our clients’ priorities, objectives, and challenges. We work hard to understand our clients’ issues and forge long-term relationships with them to help achieve successful outcomes and solve their legal issues through practical business advice and cutting-edge legal insight. Our clients view us as trusted business advisors because we understand that great legal service is only valuable if it is relevant, practical and beneficial to their businesses.

www.foley.com

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Fri, 10:30AM-11:00AM

Refreshment Break

Fox Rothschild LLP is home to 1000 talented attorneys covering 70+ diverse practice areas from offices coast to coast. We understand clients’ issues, industries, priorities, and need for practical and cost-effective advice. Our Financial Restructuring & Bankruptcy lawyers offer services on a wide array of complex issues, ranging from out-of-court restructurings and workouts to formal bankruptcy proceedings and representation of secured and unsecured creditors, Chapter 11 debtors, statutory committees, Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustees, purchasers/stalking horse bidders in section 363 transactions, foreign representatives who commence Chapter 15 cross-border insolvency cases and creditors involved in Chapter 15 cases.

www.foxrothschild.com

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Thu, 10:45AM-11:00AM

Refreshment Break

Getzler Henrich & Associates has been successfully assisting distressed or under-performing companies in the middle market since 1968.   We’ve been consistently recognized by Turnarounds & Workouts magazine as one of the country’s outstanding firms over the last two decades.  Services include turnarounds and workouts, interim and crisis management, bankruptcy advisory, financial restructuring and forensic/litigation support.  We also assist companies in achieving operational excellence through process improvement/LeanSigma, supply chain solutions, sales and marketing effectiveness, technology advisory and transaction advisory services, in industries as diverse as health care, oil and gas, manufacturing, distribution, retail, education, and service.

 

www.getzlerhenrich.com

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Fri, 7:20AM-8:20AM

Breakfast

The International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation, (IWIRC) is an international professional association dedicated to enhancing the professional status of women in all disciplines of insolvency and restructuring.  We pursue this goal through a simple but effective principle: to create an international networking organization that promotes communication, common interest and community among insolvency practitioners. We have over 1,500 members in 45 networks globally who represent every discipline of restructuring: law, crisis management, financial advisory, banking, private equity, claims management, communications...and more.

www.iwirc.com

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Laynards

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Wed, 12:15PM-1:45PM

Lunch & Keynote

Bederson is a full-service accounting and advisory firm with offices in Fairfield and West Orange, New Jersey.  The firm’s West Orange office comprises six partners, professional and support staff solely dedicated to providing insolvency and litigation services. For close to ten years, the firm has attained top recognition by New Jersey’s legal community for service expertise in bankruptcy, business valuations, forensic accounting and business accounting. Bederson is privileged to have helped clients in the legal community, private business and home offices reach optimal outcomes since 1937.

www.bederson.com

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Wed, 7:30AM-8:30AM

Breakfast

Founded in 2002, Summit Investment Management LLC is a private investment company headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Since its inception, Summit has invested more than $1.S billion in distressed debt acquisitions, balance sheet restructures of operating companies, special situation capital, bridge loans and joint ventures.

Our knowledge and experience, ingenuity, strong relationships, and direct and honest approach to doing business set us apart from the competition. We take pride in being a leading resource and partner for banks, financial institutions, middle market companies, turnaround and restructuring professionals, law firms and private equity firms, among others.

www.summit-investment.com

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Sat, 9:45AM-10:00AM

Refreshment Break

Holland & Knight is a global law firm with more than 1,300 lawyers in 28 offices throughout the world. Our lawyers provide representation in litigation, business, real estate and governmental law. Interdisciplinary practice groups and industry-based teams provide clients with access to attorneys throughout the firm, regardless of location.  Holland & Knight and our attorneys are frequently recognized by leading industry groups and publications.  Holland & Knight also has a long history of commitment to diversity and supporting our communities through pro bono legal work, community service and charitable giving.

www.hklaw.com

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Wed, 10:00AM-10:15AM

Refreshment Break

Wed, 3:30PM-3:45PM

Refreshment Break

Our clients need and expect excellent legal counsel—complete the transaction, resolve the dispute, win the trial. They are companies, organizations and individuals innovating and producing across a wide range of industries. We deliver high-quality legal counsel for needs right now, and are always looking ahead to what’s next. How? We track the political, economic and social landscape affecting business to predict future legal challenges and smooth your way. Nixon Peabody has a 21st-century view of legal services, offering partnership beyond the law. We get inside your business— identifying opportunities, minimizing risks, creating connections, forging alliances and finding new customers. We help accomplish your goals.

www.nixonpeabody.com

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Sat, 7:30AM-8:20AM

Breakfast

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Thu, 7:30PM-8:30PM

Annual Banquet Wine

Bachecki, Crom & Co., LLP is a full-service CPA firm located in the San Francisco Bay Area specializing in complex Forensics, Valuation, and Tax matters. We have provided our clients with solutions for over forty-five years. Committed to excellence, we offer a complete array of services delivered with a personal and professional touch. We value our role as trusted advisors who know our business and respect yours. We are committed to integrity and honesty. Our dedication to the three underlying principles of professionalism, responsiveness, and quality ensures outstanding service to our clients. 

www.bachcrom.com

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Thu, 7:30PM-8:30PM

Annual Banquet Wine

D. R. Payne & Associates (DRPA), Business Valuators & Appraisers (BVA), and Renewal & Recovery Professionals (RRP) can provide a complete array of products and services to assist managers, shareholders, legal advisors and businesses with those key decisions. Our accredited professionals have the specialized training and experience to enhance the journey, chart the course of action, assist those blown off course and provide interventions needed. Located in multiple offices, member firms have successfully provided services to a broad range of industries and markets. 

www.drpayne.com

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Thu, 7:30PM-8:30PM

Annual Banquet Wine

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Thu, 7:30PM-8:30PM

Annual Banquet Wine

KapilaMukamal (KM) provides creative and innovative solutions to our client’s needs. Our collective practical acumen and expertise focuses to analyze complex business and litigation issues. KM has gained prominence and distinction by rendering restructuring, insolvency, fiduciary, forensic and investigative consulting, and litigation support services to a wide spectrum of industries. KM enjoys high credibility and recognition in providing quality and focused service.  As a market leader in the areas of creditors' rights and fiduciary matters, distressed business turnaround, insolvency taxation and complex commercial litigation support to law firms, KM believes results matter and has a proven track record demonstrating that goal. 

www.kapilamukamal.com

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Thu, 7:30PM-8:30PM

Annual Banquet Wine

Lefoldt & Company, P.A. was formed in 1989 and is presently located in Ridgeland, Mississippi.  We believe in the value of relationships.  We view every client relationship like a partnership, and truly believe that our success is a result of our clients’ success.  We are committed to close personal service and providing exceptional financial and technical experience.  Our firm offers a wide range of services to our individual and business clients including financial statement preparation, bookkeeping, audits, reviews, compilations, tax planning and return services, mergers and acquisitions, litigation, bankruptcies, employee benefit plans and consulting services.

 

www.lefoldt.com

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Thu, 7:30PM-8:30PM

Annual Banquet Wine

Malek Capital Advisors is a team of operations, interim management, corporate transaction, valuation and litigation support professionals providing services throughout the United States.  We combine decades of experience with a hands-on client service model, personal commitment and on-call attention, devoted to helping you solve your business challenges and move forward.  MalekRemian’s senior level expertise drives value-added results across a range of industries, including energy and power, financial services and real estate, healthcare, manufacturing, technology and transportation.

www.malekcapital.com

About AIRA

AIRA is a nonprofit professional association serving the bankruptcy, restructuring and turnaround practice area. AIRA's membership consists of accountants, financial advisors, investment bankers, attorneys, workout consultants, trustees, and others in the field of business turnaround, restructuring and bankruptcy. AIRA members are among the most trusted and sought-after professionals in matters dealing with limited capital resources and deteriorating operating performance.

Cancellation/Refund Policy

Written cancellation for the conference or any excursions must be received by midnight on Monday, May 13, 2019 for a full refund less a $75 cancellation processing fee. No refunds will be given after May 13, 2019; substitutions are allowed.

National Registry of CPE Sponsors

"Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors" is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org/.

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