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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.
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Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP (PSZJ) is the nation’s leading corporate restructuring boutique, with offices in Los Angeles, New York, Wilmington (DE), Houston, and San Francisco. 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 Bankruptcy “Best Law Firm" by Best Law Firms®, as well as a Bankruptcy and Restructuring “Practice Group of the Year” by Law360.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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A powerhouse firm with the heart of a boutique, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP values the success of our clients above all. Skilled practitioners in the areas of bankruptcy and restructuring, litigation, regulatory, real estate and corporate combine talents to address the unique complexities of our clients’ legal challenges. We are practical in our advice and creative in our approach. Kelley Drye is a firm of more than 300 lawyers and other professionals practicing in New York, New York; Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles and San Diego, California; Chicago, Illinois; Stamford, Connecticut; Parsippany, New Jersey; and Houston, Texas.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Paladin guides middle-market companies and their stakeholders through challenging financial, operational, and strategic transitions. Our team of expert consultants, from a range of disciplines, unites with our clients to deliver tailored solutions that yield tangible and lasting results.
Your Mission is Our Mission.
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Piper Sandler is a leading investment bank and institutional securities firm. At Piper Sandler, we help clients Realize the Power of Partnership®. Through a distinct combination of candid counsel, focused expertise and empowered employees, we deliver insight and impact to each and every relationship. We transcend transactions to define possibilities—enabling clients to achieve their short-term goals while realizing their long-term vision.
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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.
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Our firm efficiently resolves your legal matters by assembling an accessible team of talent to develop a strategy and take action. We measure our performance by the results we achieve.
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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.
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Cozen O’Connor has over 750 attorneys in 29 cities across two continents. We are a full-service firm with nationally recognized practices in litigation, business law, and government relations and our attorneys have experience operating in all sectors of the economy. Our Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring Practice focuses on domestic and international insolvency, creditors’ rights, bankruptcy, out-of-court restructurings, and reorganization. Our lawyers represent parties on all sides of bankruptcy matters, enabling them to anticipate needs and priorities of divergent constituencies and devise winning strategies. They also serve as mediators in high-level disputes, making them adept at focusing negotiations and navigating potential roadblocks.
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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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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.
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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.
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We are a boutique consulting firm representing debtors, creditors, and trustees in all aspects of bankruptcy proceedings. We have built our business to assist parties in the most thought intensive and efficient manner. Through our experience and knowledge of the Court process, we learned parties dealing with distress and bankruptcy need an experienced team of financial professionals to provide proactive Bankruptcy Services; Litigation Support and Expert Testimony; and Forensic and Investigative Accounting.
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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.
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At Goodwin, we partner with our clients to practice law with integrity, ingenuity, agility, and ambition. Our 1,400 lawyers across the United States, Europe, and Asia excel at complex transactions, high-stakes litigation and world-class advisory services in the technology, life sciences, real estate, private equity, and financial industries. Our unique combination of deep experience serving both the innovators and investors in a rapidly changing, technology-driven economy sets us apart. Goodwin’s sophisticated and full-service Financial Restructuring Group is fully equipped to help clients with the most complex high profile restructurings and distressed opportunities.
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Perkins Coie’s national, full-service bankruptcy and restructuring practice has experience representing virtually all constituencies in distressed situations. We are a leading international law firm that is known for providing high value, strategic solutions and extraordinary client service on matters vital to our clients’ success. With more than 1,100 lawyers across the United States and Asia, Perkins Coie provides a full array of corporate, commercial litigation, intellectual property and regulatory legal advice to a broad range of clients, including many of the world’s most innovative companies and industry leaders as well as not-for-profit organizations.
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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has more than 1,300 lawyers in 20 offices located in major cities throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. We are committed to providing the highest quality legal services to our clients in a personal, responsive manner. We are a recognized leader in representing companies ranging from start-up ventures to multinational corporations across diverse industries from high-technology to manufacturing, financial institutions and other service companies to government entities. The firm handles every aspect of litigation, crisis management, corporate transactions and counseling, corporate governance, regulatory law, antitrust law, business restructurings and reorganizations, tax, employment and labor law, intellectual property and real estate law, and many related practice areas.
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GT’s professionals provide specialized expertise necessary to support parties involved in restructuring and insolvency. We serve as financial advisors to distressed companies and individuals, financial advisors to secured creditors and lenders, Chief Restructuring Officer, as well as interim CEO and CFO. In the event the client is not able to restructure, we help businesses and individuals prepare for a bankruptcy filing by serving as financial advisors or accountants to the debtor. GT also serves as Chapter 7 and 11 trustees and financial advisors to the unsecured creditor committee. GT uses its decades of experience to compile bankruptcy schedules, evaluate claims, analyze tax implications, and assist with Bankruptcy Court and United States Trustee compliance reporting. For more information, visit
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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.
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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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ABOUT RSM US LLP
RSM US LLP is the leading provider of audit, tax and consulting services focused on the middle market, with more than 9,500 people in 90 cities nationwide. It is a licensed CPA firm and the U.S. member of RSM International, a global network of independent audit, tax and consulting firms with more than 43,000 people in over 120 countries. RSM uses its deep understanding of the needs and aspirations of clients to help them succeed. For more information, visit www.rsmus.com, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and/or connect with us on LinkedIn.