Sponsorship:
Awards Ceremony, Presented by AlixPartners, LLP
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.
Sponsorship:
Annual Dinner
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 corporations, governments, private individuals, and trade associations.
Our attorneys know that being Smart isn’t just about having great legal skills. It means knowing your business, your industry, and your goals — and using that insight to solve challenges creatively and efficiently. That’s our legacy and our future. It’s our mission and promise to you.
Sponsorship:
Annual Dinner
Dundon Advisors LLC, established in 2016, is a leading adviser to reconstructuring stakeholders and institutional creditors, creditors, and borrowers, across a wide range of industries and geographies. We deliver solutions powered by long experience, subject matter expertise, diligent research, and creative analysis.
Each of our principals and managing directors came to the firm after decades of progressively responsible experience as corporate executives, hedge fund managers, and senior roles at leading banking and restructuring firms.?
We pride ourselves on our commitment to client results and many of our client engagements have significant performance-based compensation which include large asset managers, family offices, insurance companies, banks and trusts, class action and mass tort law firms, as well as groups and committees of the same acting in bankruptcy and out of court restructuring.
Sponsorship:
Wi-Fi Internet
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.
Sponsorship:
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.
Sponsorship:
Annual Dinner
Kramer Levin provides proactive, creative and pragmatic solutions that address today’s most challenging legal issues. The firm is headquartered in New York with offices in Silicon Valley, Washington, DC, and Paris and fosters a strong culture of involvement in public and community service. For more than 30 years, creditors, debtor corporations, investors, lenders and acquirers have turned to Kramer Levin to solve complicated bankruptcy and restructuring problems, to structure and lead negotiations that harmonize divergent interests and achieve consensual solutions, and to win suits in bankruptcy court, courts of appeal and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Sponsorship:
Event App
Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP (PSZJ) is the nation’s leading corporate restructuring boutique, with offices in Los Angeles, New York, Wilmington (Del.), Houston, and San Francisco. Our 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 Bankruptcy “Best Law Firm" by Best Law Firms® and many of its attorneys are highly ranked by the prestigious Chambers & Partners.
Sponsorship:
Opening Reception
Stretto delivers a full spectrum of case management and claims administration services, depository and distribution solutions, and technology tools to legal and financial professionals. With a comprehensive suite of tailored offerings, Stretto provides an unparalleled portfolio designed to meet our clients’ unique financial and business objectives. For more information about Stretto, please visit www.stretto.com.
Sponsorship:
Keycards
FORVIS was created by the merger of equals between BKD and DHG. We now have the scale and scope of a dynamic, top 10 professional services firm—but we’ll continue our legacy of Unmatched Client Experiences with remarkable care, expertise, and drive.
Our clients benefit from a single organization with the enhanced capabilities of an expanded national platform, deepened industry mastery, greater resources, and innovative advisory services. Our aim is to help you succeed today while preparing you to forge ahead into a clear future.
Sponsorship:
Lanyards
KCC is a leading claims and noticing agent providing administrative support services and consulting to companies undergoing corporate restructurings. KCC has set the standard for claims administration services, with innovative technologies and the most experienced staff in the market offering in-depth expertise and highly responsive client service. KCC provides claims administration, noticing, public securities services, strategic communications, document production, balloting and tabulation, disbursement services, and a suite of e-services on digital platforms. Additionally, KCC has integrated automated chapter 11 depository services, receivership, chapter 7, and subchapter V solutions and software in their continually expanding suite of services.
Sponsorship:
Charging Station
Berger Singerman LLP, Florida’s business law firm, has more than 90 attorneys working out of offices in Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Tallahassee, and West Palm Beach. Members of the firm have expertise in commercial law, including business reorganization, corporate securities and M&A, dispute resolution, intellectual property, employment law, real estate, environmental and land use, government and regulatory, healthcare, insurance, internal investigations and white- collar criminal defense, tax, and wealth preservation. Berger Singerman is consistently and widely recognized by independent third parties for its excellence in client service, results obtained for clients and its culture.
Sponsorship:
Women's Breakfast
Blank Rome is an AmLaw 100 firm with a nationally recognized and Chambers-ranked Finance, Restructuring and Bankruptcy practice. The group of more than 90 attorneys located throughout the firm’s nationwide offices advises on all areas of commercial finance, including asset-based and leveraged cash flow financings, unitranche and second-lien financings, securitizations and structured finance, and debt restructurings. Blank Rome’s bankruptcy and restructuring attorneys counsel secured and unsecured creditors, including committees; pre- and post-petition lenders; contract counterparties; buyers and sellers of distressed assets; creditor fiduciaries, including trustees, assignees for the benefit of creditors, and receivers; and parties in cross-border insolvency cases. ?For more information, contact Ira L. Herman at Ira.Herman@blankrome.com.
Sponsorship:
Dessert Reception
BRG is a global strategic advisory and expert consulting firm focused on delivering inspired insights and practical advice to solve client’s most pressing issues and risks. BRG Corporate Finance is a leader in providing multidisciplinary services to companies, lenders, investors, and equity sponsors, focused on value preservation and expansion. BRG professionals have advised in some of the most complex corporate domestic and international matters. Our broad experience and superior service, coupled with our personal, hands-on approach to client service, have benefited hundreds of clients in a wide array of industries.
Sponsorship:
Judges Roundtable
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.
Sponsorship:
Breakfast
Duane Morris LLP, a law firm with more than 900 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.
Sponsorship:
Keynote Presentation - Financial Market Perspectives on Corporate Distress
EY-Parthenon’s global network of turnaround and 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.
Sponsorship:
Cocktail Reception
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.
Sponsorship:
Judges Roundtable
LimNexus represents Fortune 500 companies, multinational corporations, public entities, and private entrepreneurs, all of which know LimNexus as a boutique business law firm with global reach that provides, efficient, personalized and solution-focused service. Our reputation is powered by our connection to our clients, our distinct firm culture, and our commitment to community. Our practices include commercial business litigation, real estate, international trade and regulatory, corporate transactions, employment litigation, domestic and international arbitration, and bankruptcy and restructuring. The global reach of our firm stems from specialized practice areas, expertise, previous experience, our relationships, and our unique cultural heritage and language capabilities. Clients who work with LimNexus LLP receive the quality and results typical expected from major leading law firms, coupled with individual attention and care possible with a smaller, boutique-sized firm. We offer our clients the benefits of a lean overhead, reasonable fees, and effective but practical strategies carried out by experienced lawyers who are strong time-tested advocates.
Sponsorship:
Luncheon
M3 is a leading, independent corporate advisory firm that provides operational, strategic, and financial solutions to a broad range of clients. M3's clients look to the firm for financial advisory services, performance improvement, litigation support, and operational diligence during all stages and market cycles, and the firm is also called on to lead as interim management. M3 is well versed in navigating sensitive corporate situations and the firm has a demonstrated track record of achieving successful outcomes for clients, including in some of the most significant recent restructurings in the market. M3's engagement teams are led by senior turnaround veterans with decades of combined experience across key verticals.
Sponsorship:
Pocket Agenda
RK Consultants is a boutique consulting firm with 20 years of experience representing Debtors, Creditors, Chapter 7 and 11 Trustees, Creditors’ Committees, Secured Lenders, and Post-Confirmation agents in all aspects of bankruptcy proceedings. Our comprehensive expertise ensures effective and strategic solutions for complex financial challenges.
Sponsorship:
Refreshment Break
Barnes & Thornburg is a full-service firm advising on legal matters that span state lines and cross borders. We serve clients worldwide from offices across the country. As one of the 100 largest firms in the nation, we have experience in all the legal practice areas required to do business in today's global marketplace. We advise clients on all types of insolvency and restructuring, bankruptcy and ensuing litigation. We assist our clients across the country in commercial, financing and other transactions on a local, regional and national basis, and regularly appear in significant Chapter 11 cases, receiverships and other proceedings.
Sponsorship:
Breakfast
Deloitte’s Performance Improvement and Restructuring practice helps distressed and non-distressed organizations transform disruptions, transitions, financial difficulties, or crises 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, execute enterprise margin improvement engagements, or guide stakeholders through a complex turnaround or bankruptcy reorganization, our team works closely with the client to quickly understand their business and their most urgent issues.
Sponsorship:
Ride a Duffy Boat in Newport Harbor
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.
Sponsorship:
Refreshment Break
Fox Rothschild is a national full-service firm with 1,000 attorneys coast to coast. Ranked among the leading bankruptcy and restructuring?firms in the U.S.?by?Chambers & Partners, we handle a broad range of bankruptcy and insolvency matters, as well as complex litigation.? Our team guides companies of all sizes through out-of-court workouts, successful reorganizations, and going-concern sales in all types of Chapter matters. We have many years of experience representing creditors’ committees throughout the country and have a track record of obtaining good results for unsecured creditors in challenging cases.? Enterprising and forward thinking, our team works to solve problems and map out a strategy that aligns with our clients’ goals.
Sponsorship:
Refreshment Break
Hilco Corporate Finance, a boutique investment banking advisor affiliated with Hilco Global, provides unmatched creativity and relentless support to our clients. Our seasoned team of professionals works closely with leading experts in asset valuation, monetization, business advisory and capital solutions from across the Hilco platform of companies to re-imagine the comprehensive advisory services we provide to private & public companies, private equity groups, family offices, and entrepreneurs. Our senior professionals have successfully completed hundreds of value-maximizing corporate finance transactions across a broad range of industries — particularly diversified industrials / manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, metals, plastics, building products, packaging, retail/consumer, technology, business services, telecom/media, and energy. Our professionals actively maintain relationships with capital providers and counter-parties in each of these sectors.
Sponsorship:
Breakfast
RumbergerKirk provides litigation and counseling services in a wide range of civil practice areas including bankruptcy, commercial litigation, construction,?real estate, intellectual property litigation, securities litigation, labor and employment law,?product liability, insurance coverage, professional liability and administrative law. Offices are located in Orlando, Tampa, Miami, Tallahassee and Birmingham, Alabama.
Sponsorship:
Luncheon Presentation: Strategic Planning – A Regular Review Is Important to All Organizations
As a leading advisory, assurance, and tax firm, CohnReznick helps forward-thinking organizations achieve their vision by optimizing performance, maximizing value, and managing risk. Clients benefit from the right team with the right capabilities; proven processes customized to their individual needs; and leaders with vital industry knowledge and relationships. With offices nationwide, the firm serves organizations around the world as an independent member of Nexia.
Sponsorship:
Luncheon Presentation: Strategic Planning – A Regular Review Is Important to All Organizations
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.
Sponsorship:
Refreshment Break
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.
Sponsorship:
Annual Dinner
Sponsorship:
Annual Dinner
Applied Business Strategy (ABS) is a professional services firm founded upon leadership, integrity, and excellence. ABS provides interim management and advisory services to insolvent companies, supports commercial litigation as an advisor or expert witness, and provides valuation and forensic accounting services. ABS professionals have deep experience across an array of industries. serving hundreds of clients ranging from large multi-national corporations to small businesses. ABS maintains offices in Cleveland, OH and New York, NY.
Sponsorship:
Annual Dinner
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.
Sponsorship:
Annual Dinner
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.
Sponsorship:
Annual Dinner
Malek Capital Advisors LLC is a team of operations, engineering, 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 clients solve their business challenges and move forward. Malek Capital’s senior level expertise drives value-added results across a range of industries including aviation, automotive, extractive industries, financial services and real estate, manufacturing, power and technology.
Sponsorship:
Annual Dinner
Province is a nationally recognized restructuring and financial advisory firm specializing in creditor & investor services, trust & liquidation, corporate advisory, litigation services and performance improvement services. We help our clients, who include middle-market and large corporations, financial institutions, institutional investors, government agencies, high-net-worth individuals, law firms, trustees and more, successfully navigate complex strategic, operational, financial and legal situations. Working with Province involves collaborating with multidisciplinary teams of leading experts and advisors, leveraging decades of experience.
Sponsorship:
Refreshment Break
Restructuring Solutions, LLC is a boutique restructuring, bankruptcy, wind up and transaction support service provider to lower-middle market companies facing liquidity challenges. The company was formed with the underlying commitment to provide a level of personal service that cannot be found with other professional services firms. Restructuring Solutions brings over 30 years of experience providing financial advisory services to distressed businesses large and small, across a variety of industries, and operating through several economic cycles.