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Zolfo Cooper is the world’s preeminent financial advisory and interim management firm, dedicated to providing restructuring leadership to companies and their stakeholders. For over 30 years, Zolfo Cooper professionals have helped clients resolve their most complex, high-stakes business problems. Whether stepping in as interim management, advising a company’s lenders, leading a restructuring or identifying risks arising from disputes, Zolfo Cooper delivers results — from maximizing value to enhancing a company’s long-term competitive advantage. With offices and affiliations in the world’s leading financial centers, Zolfo Cooper assists clients spanning the middle-market to the largest and most complex cross-border situations.
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Professionals at Berkeley Research Group, a leading global expert services and consulting firm, have been providing financial and insolvency expertise for the past several decades, including a combination of bankruptcy and insolvency services, fiduciary services, forensic and investigative accounting, litigation consulting, corporate recovery and reorganization, valuation services, and tax services. With well-defined areas of specialization and through years of experience, our professionals have developed unique expertise and judgment in handling the complex issues that arise in these types of engagements.
Deloitte CRG is a leader in helping organizations transform periods of financial difficulty or crisis into opportunities for rejuvenation. Having led both large multinational organizations and mid-market companies through unprecedented challenges, we apply our unrivalled experience and superior foresight to achieve successful outcomes for our clients, their creditors, and equity holders. Whether the goal is to enhance the performance of a healthy company, assume an interim leadership role, or guide stakeholders through complex bankruptcy reorganization, our team works closely with the client to quickly understand their business and most pressing issues and then advise them on how to move ahead with confidence.
Duane Morris LLP, a law firm with more than 750 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. Throughout its more than 100-year history, Duane Morris has fostered a collegial culture, where lawyers work with each other to better serve their clients. Lawyers who are leaders in a range of legal disciplines and have diverse backgrounds join Duane Morris in order to use the latest technology, professional support staff and other resources in pursuit of clients’ goals.
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FTI Consulting, Inc. is a global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations protect and enhance enterprise value in an increasingly complex legal, regulatory and economic environment. The Corporate Finance/Restructuring practice at FTI Consulting has 700+ professionals situated around the world, who focus on strategic, operational, financial and capital needs of businesses. As the #1 provider of crisis management services, our experts address the full spectrum of financial and transactional challenges faced by companies, boards, private equity sponsors, creditors and other stakeholders, whenever and wherever. Results oriented: Our success depends upon achieving optimal outcomes for our clients.
Huron is a global professional services firm committed to achieving sustainable results in partnership with its clients. We offer a full suite of business advisory services in key areas, including capital advisory, commercial dispute advisory, investment banking, operational improvement, restructuring & turnaround, transaction advisory, and valuation. Our senior-level team members possess deep operating experience in a range of industries, with many serving as C-level executives. This enables us to efficiently analyze a situation and apply our knowledge to identify and implement value creation strategies. Through focus, passion and collaboration, Huron provides guidance to support organizations as they contend with the change transforming their industries and businesses.
Protiviti is a global consulting firm 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 services, litigation consulting, and forensic accounting. Our professionals have extensive experience and knowledge in developing and implementing successful plans of reorganization, vendor and stakeholder negotiations, liquidating estate assets, and providing a full range of valuation services and expert testimony. We represent debtors, committees of unsecured creditors, secured lenders, fiduciaries and other interested parties. Protiviti, which employs 3,300 professionals in more than 70 offices in over 20 countries, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Robert Half International Inc.
Arent Fox LLP, founded in 1942, is internationally recognized in core practice areas where business and government intersect. As a result of guiding principles centered on first-rate legal work and exceptional service, the firm has earned its reputation for providing clients with the counsel they need to meet critical challenges in their “world.” Complex problems require interdisciplinary solutions and should be approached with a practical perspective and managed with maximum efficiency. With offices in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, DC, Arent Fox provides strategic legal counsel to clients that range from Fortune 500 corporations and start-ups, to trade associations and foreign governments.
Bederson LLP is a full service accounting and advisory firm. Established in 1937, Bederson has attained top recognition by NJ’s legal community in insolvency, litigation and other specialized areas of accounting and consulting. The firm was voted “Best of” by the readers of the NJ Law Journal for the past 5 years, most recently winning 7 medals as Best Corporate Investigations Provider, Bankruptcy Valuation Provider, Forensic Accounting Provider, Litigation Valuation Provider, Economic Damages Valuation Provider, Economic Damages Expert Witness and Best Business Accounting Provider.
East West Bank Specialty Deposit Services offers companies and their advisors specialized banking and cash-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 a top 10 bank in the nation by Forbes and are among the top 10 best-performing large banks as rated by the American Bankers Association. Our 2014 annual report reflects our fifth consecutive year of record earnings. East West Bank is approved to hold bankruptcy deposits nationwide.
Haynes and Boone, LLP is one of the American Lawyer top 100 law firms, with more than 575 lawyers in 15 offices and 40 major legal practices. We are among the largest firms based in the United States. Our growth has been driven by our client service strengths, especially our problem-solving acumen and our ability to collaborate with clients. It is our mission to be a preeminent law firm that serves clients globally on sophisticated legal matters while maintaining a special culture founded on teamwork, a healthy work environment, and a strong work ethic. While every law firm believes culture is an important component of success, our culture is truly unique. Our culture is defined by our collaborative work environment and by putting the interests of our clients first. It focuses on teamwork, an environment of mutual respect, and a long-term view that supports investing in the future and the success of Haynes and Boone as an outstanding professional service institution.
Loewinsohn Flegle Deary Simon focuses its practice on complex business and employment litigation and arbitration, business restructuring and outside general counsel services. The firm’s principals are leaders and award winners in their fields. LFDS’s restructuring lawyers have a long history of success and a breadth of experience in all aspects of business bankruptcy cases and out-of-court debt restructurings. We have also tried and won a variety of high-stakes complex bankruptcy related disputes in bankruptcy courts and arbitrations around the country. LFDS supplements its extensive litigation, employment and restructuring practices with the capability to provide exceptional and pragmatic corporate and general counsel services through LFDS lawyers with decades of experience serving as general counsel to companies in a variety of industries. You can count on all members of the LFDS team to leverage their experience, talent, confidence and hard work as they focus on accomplishing the desired outcome. We pride ourselves on the respect we earn from clients, judges, juries, and the opposition.
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Melville Capital is a life settlement broker focused on monetizing existing life insurance policies in insolvency-related matters where the insurance policy is unwanted, unnecessary or too expensive to maintain. Since 2005, our team of licensed insurance professionals has represented individuals/companies in transition, turnaround and bankruptcy advisors, trustees, and corporate and institutional sellers in everything from a single policy to a complex portfolio sale, handling all aspects of the transaction. We have transacted more than $2 billion through a large network of institutional investors who bid against each other in an auction-type process, ensuring that the client receives the highest and best offer, and we handle all aspects of the transaction, including negotiating and accepting bids from competing institutional investors. The net result is that the client receives a lump-sum cash settlement that is, on average, four times more than the cash-surrender value, and is also relieved of all future premium payments.
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Piper Jaffray & Co. is a leading investment bank and asset management firm. Our investment banking group partners with corporate clients and financial sponsors to provide advisory and financing services related to mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt capital markets, private placements, financial restructuring and corporate & venture services. We offer in-depth knowledge and industry relationships in our core sectors: Agriculture, clean-tech & renewables; Consumer; Diversified industrials & services; Energy; Financial institutions; Financial sponsors; Healthcare; and Technology. Member NYSE and SIPC. Since 1895.
Winstead PC is among the largest business law firms in Texas. Winstead attorneys and consultants serve as trusted advisors to mid-market and large businesses, providing a core range of legal services that are critical to their operation and success. From its well-known reputation in the real estate, financial services, energy and technology industries to its corporate and high-stakes litigation practices, Winstead delivers practical knowledge and responsive service. And it’s all backed by a get-it-done attitude.
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 34 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.
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In today’s fast paced global market timing is everything. You want to protect, grow or transform your business. To meet these challenges we offer clients small teams of highly qualified experts with in-depth sector and operational insight. Our clients include corporate boards and management, law firms, investment banks, investors and others who have come to rely on the candor, dedication, and transformative expertise of our teams. We will ensure insight drives action at that exact moment that is critical for success. AlixPartners. When it really matters.
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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.
BVA Group is a nationally recognized valuation and financial advisory firm with a reputation for providing valuable insight and responsive service to clients seeking guidance on complex financial issues. The firm was founded in 1974 to pursue a simple but powerful purpose: to empower others through its expertise in valuation, economic damages, and corporate finance issues. BVA’s core competencies are critical in distressed situations. We have deep experience in navigating complex restructuring issues and providing game-changing expertise in advising debtors, creditors, and other stakeholders.
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Dykema’s Bankruptcy, Insolvency and Creditors’ Rights practice is committed to delivering timely, creative, practical and cost-effective solutions to the challenges that face creditors and financially distressed companies. Nearly 30 attorneys, operating in 15 offices in California, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Texas and Washington D.C., represent Creditors and Debtors across the country. Dykema’s clients include 15 of the 25 largest banks in the United States and we have long been recognized as one of the country’s leading financial industry law firms. Our Debtor representation, which is focused on middle market companies, includes businesses in the energy, real estate, health care, and retail industries.
Jackson Walker is a Texas-based law firm with a national presence and global reach. With more than 375 attorneys, we're one of the largest firms in the state, and we provide comprehensive services in a broad range of practice areas. At the same time, by keeping our offices in Texas—Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, San Angelo, San Antonio, and Texarkana—we're able to provide excellent value for clients and maintain the nimbleness to adapt to their needs.
Stout is a leading independent advisory firm specializing in Investment Banking, Valuation Advisory, Dispute Consulting, and Management Consulting. We serve a range of clients from Fortune 100 corporations to privately held companies in numerous industries around the world. Our clients and their advisors rely on our premier expertise, deep industry knowledge, and unparalleled responsiveness on complex financial matters. For more information, visit www.StoutAdvisory.com, follow us on Twitter @StoutRisiusRoss, and/or connect with us on LinkedIn.
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Bridgepoint Consulting is a leading Texas-based management consulting firm that provides strategic services and highly qualified professionals to solve complex financial, management and technology challenges. Whether an organization needs interim expertise to improve infrastructure and processes, or strategic management of a major transition or transaction, Bridgepoint’s team of 140+ qualified professionals can help. Bridgepoint has offices in Austin, Dallas and Houston. Since 2008, Bridgepoint has also helped over 60 struggling companies with everything from Turnaround, Dispute Resolution, Chapter 11 Bankruptcy and CRO Services. Learn more about the firm’s comprehensive Turnaround & Dispute Resolution services here.
CohnReznick is a national audit, tax, and business advisory firm that provides forward-thinking service across many industries and serves businesses ranging from family-run enterprises to public companies in the Fortune 1000. CohnReznick Advisory is comprised of a team of professionals who are dedicated to helping organizations address many different challenges resulting from growth, economic issues, opportunities, or crises. Troubled-business situations require responsiveness, technical skill, and industry expertise. Our dedicated, highly credentialed, multi-disciplinary team of restructuring, turnaround, forensic, and valuation professionals will act quickly to assess a situation and recommend a course of action both in and out of court.
GlassRatner is a national specialty financial advisory services firm providing solutions to complex business problems and Board level agenda items. The firm applies a unique mix of skill sets and experience to address matters of the utmost importance such as managing through a business crisis or bankruptcy, pursuing a fraud investigation or corporate litigation, planning & executing a major acquisition or divestiture, unraveling a challenging real estate issue and other top-level non-typical business challenges. The combination of proven operating and financial expertise, a hands-on approach and an absolute focus on assignment execution makes GlassRatner a unique and valuable ally for its clients and partners.
PwC’s crisis and restructuring professionals advise on solutions for a range of needs. We work with companies to evaluate strategic and financial alternatives. We can also assist with corporate reorganizations, evaluate liquidity positions and advise on operating efficiency and margin enhancement. Through early detection, our cross-functional crisis specialists take a holistic view of your organization to help identify the factors that are negatively impacting your business. From bankruptcy to underperforming businesses, we help to uncover the right strategic and financial alternatives for you and work with you to execute the quick, decisive action necessary to pivot your organization towards a stronger future.
RSM US LLP is the leading U.S. provider of assurance, tax and consulting services focused on the middle market, with 8,000 professionals and associates in 80 cities nationwide. RSM’s litigation consulting and dispute advisory practice is a team of credentialed, seasoned professionals who provide objective insight and support to counsel and their clients involved in high-stakes disputes, including complex litigation, business valuation, regulatory actions, cross-border investigations and other forensic accounting matters. We also provide data management and analysis, including database design, development, and data mining. Our professionals have advised clients and testified as expert witnesses on some of the highest-profile litigation and arbitration matters in state, federal and international courts and forums.
Barg & Henson, P.C. was formed in 1984 as a Boutique tax consulting and compliance firm providing Federal and State tax consulting, compliance and related accounting services to selected client engagements most of which are located throughout the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. A significant number of our engagements occur in connection with support services related to bankruptcy and insolvency tax matters in both formal court proceedings and in out of court settlements. Our staff of eight is highly qualified. Two of our members hold Certified Insolvency and Reorganization Advisor (CIRA) credentials, five have Masters degrees in Taxation or in Accounting and both named stockholders have a combined experience of over 20 years with international “Big Four” accounting firms.
Bean Hunt Harris & Company is a leading full service accounting and advisory firm located in California. BHH provides personalized accounting services to individuals and businesses across many industries and throughout the United States. BHH specializes in serving our clients' needs in assurance services, tax compliance, forensic and valuation services, tax agency representation, and financially distressed individuals and businesses. The firm has over 30 years of experience in meeting the unique needs of our clients and assisting our clients in navigating the treacherous world of business.
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.
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.
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.
MalekRemian LLC 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.
Tittle Advisory Group, Inc. (TAG), with offices in New York and Dallas, is a consulting and management services firm that provides bankruptcy and restructuring, expert testimony and dispute consulting, valuation and solvency opinions and M&A advisory services. TAG is headed by John Tittle, Jr. Mr. Tittle has served in the capacities of CEO, CRO, Trustee, Liquidating Trustee, and financial advisor. He has also been retained over the years in numerous cases in which he has opined and rendered testimony relative to accounting and financial matters, damage calculation projects, valuation and solvency issues, and other adversary proceedings in a bankruptcy context.
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