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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.
Conway MacKenzie, now part of Riveron, provides deep finance, operations and industry expertise in complex turnaround and restructuring situations. Our mandate is simple and direct: improve results and restore value to our clients’ businesses and their stakeholders, through strategies such as reducing costs, resolving production problems, restructuring the balance sheet, and reestablishing credibility with lenders and other creditors. With over 500 advisory experts in 13 offices across the United States, Riveron partners with clients to successfully prepare for and execute change across the entire transaction and business lifecycle, in both healthy and distressed environments.
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.
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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.
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GCG provides a fully integrated, multidisciplinary approach when addressing all aspects of a bankruptcy administration.With best-in-class technology, industry experts, and cost-effective programs, we take a swift and proactive approach to address any hurdles that might arise. GCG’s considerable experience managing the administration of bankruptcy cases in all chapters, out-of-court exchange offers, solicitations, and rights offerings, makes us an ideal partner for any administration. In acknowledgement ofour experience and qualifications, M&A Advisor awarded GCG the Restructuring Deal of the Year for the chapter 11 reorganization of Samson Resources and the Information Management Product of the Year for 2017.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
With more than 230 attorneys in Austin, Birmingham, Memphis and Nashville, Waller is a full-service law firm serving the legal needs of business and industry since 1905. Waller’s multidisciplinary financial services department assists companies, business owners, boards of directors as well as banks, financial institutions, lenders, investors and other creditors in complex turnaround, insolvency and bankruptcy matters. Learn more about our experienced team of finance, restructuring, corporate, and regulatoryattorneys, litigators, and tax advisors at www.wallerlaw.com/Services/Finance-Restructuring and by contacting Katie Stenberg, Partner-Finance and Restructuring, at 615.850.8944.
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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.
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Alvarez & Marsal (A&M), established in 1983, is a global professional services firm renowned for advisory, business performance improvement, and turnaround management. With over 8,500 professionals across six continents, we assist companies, investors, law firms, and government entities in achieving tangible results. Our expertise shines when conventional methods fall short, providing practical solutions to unique challenges. Leveraging our restructuring heritage, we empower clients to make decisive actions, foster growth, and expedite results. We are experienced operators, world-class consultants, former regulators, and industry authorities. Our team is dedicated to guiding clients through strategic transformations, adeptly navigating risks, and unlocking value at every stage of growth.
Recognized by FORTUNE magazine as one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For," Baker Donelson is among the 60 largest law firms in the country, with more than 750 attorneys and public policy advisors representing more than 30 practice areas to serve a wide range of legal needs. Clients receive knowledgeable guidance from experienced, multi-disciplined industry and client service teams, all seamlessly connected across 23 offices in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
With more than 280 attorneys representing numerous publicly traded companies and Fortune 500 businesses, Bass, Berry & Sims has been involved in some of the largest and most significant litigation matters, investigations and business transactions in the country. For more information, visit www.bassberry.com.
As the industry leading provider of specialized solutions for bankruptcy and corporate restructuring professionals, clients value BMS for unparalleled service offering and case administration technology. Clients rely on BMS for highly personalized account support combined with an advanced suite of software which results in greater productivity, along with time and cost efficiencies.
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 companies3333, 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.
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.
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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.
Jones Walker LLP’s bankruptcy, restructuring & creditors’-debtors’ rights team focuses on the needs of clients while providing effective representation in courts nationwide. Our team includes three members of the American College of Bankruptcy and advises clients from numerous industries in complex and traditional bankruptcies and reorganizations and represents clients in all transactional and litigation aspects of business bankruptcy and insolvency matters. We strive to maintain balance in a rapidly shifting economic, legislative, and regulatory landscape by providing debtors, creditors, lenders, and other parties affected by insolvencies with sophisticated, seasoned legal counsel.
www.joneswalker.com/services/practices/bankruptcy-restructuring-creditors-debtors-rights/index.html
Melville Capital is a Life Settlement Broker focused on monetizing and liquidating existing Life Insurance Policies in insolvency–related matters where the insurance policy is unwanted, unnecessary or too expensive to maintain. We represent policy owners who are in transition or involved in a transaction – including Turnaround and Bankruptcy Advisors, and Trustees. We handle all aspects of the transaction, including negotiating and accepting bids from competing Institutional Investors. The end result is that the client receives a lump sum cash settlement that is, on average, 4x’s more than the Cash Surrender Value and is relieved of all future premium payments.
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.
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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.
Polsinelli’s Bankruptcy and Restructuring practice is a nationally recognized practice that is part of an Am Law 100 law firm with more than 1,000 attorneys, 22 offices and a national footprint with attorneys from Delaware and New York, across the heartland, to Los Angeles that provides cost-efficient legal services to its clients via a mid-market rate structure and a collaborative culture. The attorneys primarily focus on representing Chapter 11 debtors, distressed borrowers and buyers and sellers of distressed assets. The Bankruptcy practice also represents official committees, trustees, individual creditors such as equity security holders, vendors, landlords and bankruptcy litigants throughout the United States. The Bankruptcy Group also specializes in non-bankruptcy alternatives, including assignments for the benefit of creditors, out-of-court workouts, receiverships and state court liquidations.
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.
For over 30 years, Bean Hunt Harris & Company has operated with the goal of helping clients at the forefront of our services. Tom, David, and Alana each bring a unique expertise in insolvency issues, taxation and accounting. Our clients love our service because we love what we do. We’re a small-business and family-oriented firm that works hard for businesses. We enjoy the challenge of helping our clients remain in compliance with tax laws, US GAAP and bankruptcy law. Additionally, our team enjoys being a resource for business owners, other CPAs and legal professionals.
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.
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, manufacturing, technology and transportation.
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Debtwire, an Acuris company, is the leading provider of expert news, data and analysis on global leveraged credit. Our end-to-end coverage goes behind the scenes from primary issuance to the first sign of stress through restructuring and beyond. With global breadth and local depth, Debtwire's award-winning editorial, research and legal analyst teams produce original content that helps subscribers make more informed decisions. Subscribers trust Debtwire - the pioneer in the market - for comprehensive coverage across geographies, companies and asset classes.
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.
Sponsorship Opportunities
Sponsorship with the AIRA provides exposure and visibility to the decision making experts in the insolvency and restructuring field. To discuss available opportunities contact Cheryl Campbell at (541) 646–9261 or ccampbell@aira.org.
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.learningmarket.org.