Seth R. Freeman, CIRA, CTP is a Bankruptcy, Insolvency and Restructuring Consultant, Crisis and Turnaround Manager and Asset Manager with over 30 years of diverse consulting experience including financial advisory, operational and financial restructuring, controlled wind-downs, transaction management, arranging new financing, fiduciary, litigation support; and cross-border due diligence, insolvency and debt resolution, market-entry strategies, compliance, fraud investigation and recovery and complex dispute negotiation. His practice also includes serving as independent advisor to significant investors and directors of companies undergoing change.
Seth has over 20 years' extensive cross-border emerging markets experience involving India, Mainland China, Hong Kong, South East Asia; as well as in Mexico, Central and South America. Seth is an acknowledged expert on cross-border India investment and business practices and provides clients with an extraordinary local market network to assist the firm's U.S. clients in this fast-growing economy.
Over the past several years, Seth has developed expertise in the EB-5 investment immigration program to assist groups of foreign investors and their attorneys in EB-5 related fraud, mismanagement and bankruptcy, as well as assessing "redeployment" of "at-risk" investor funds and compliance required under USCIS regulation.
He has gained experience in all aspects of real estate investment, asset management, development, finance, lending, distressed asset and debt portfolios and investment banking across most property-types with an aggregate value exceeding $1 Billion, including client projects in the U.S., Mexico, Guatemala and Belize.
Prior to joining GlassRatner (now doing business as B. Riley Financial Services), Seth was Senior Managing Director of EM Capital Global Advisors and CEO of EM Capital Management, LLC, an international restructuring, insolvency and emerging markets advisory and asset management firm, he co-founded in 1996, where in addition to delivering consulting services he has served as investment manager of funds investing in India.