Arizona Andrew Feller, Deloitte Bryan Kort, CapitalSource Casey F. Lytle, FTI Consulting Douglas W. McCabe, DEVISE Capital Lee McDermid, 
 Wells Fargo Equipment Finance Ben Smith, 
 Surplus Asset Management | SAM Auctions California - Northern Nicholas M. Brown, Zazove Associates California -...

Alabama Murray Bibb, Porter, White & Company California - Northern Jonathan Comeau, Avidbank Michael J. Haftl, AlixPartners Veronica T. Iles, Burr Pilger Mayer Inc. Frank A. Wisehart, RGL Forensics Phillip Zhou, Cogent Valuation California - Southern Laurie I. Buss, C-Suite Creative Jerome S...

John Hyde has joined Graphic Arts Advisors (GAA) as a director and member of the firm’s senior team. He has over 25 years of experience in the print and graphic communications industry and has worked with numerous clients in connection with mergers and acquisitions, family succession planning,...

TMA Delegation Meets with U.S. Ambassador to China A TMA delegation comprised of professionals working in the People’s Republic of China met with U.S. Ambassador Max Baucus and members of his senior staff in Beijing in July. The private meeting gave members of the delegation the opportunity to...

In 2014, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware issued a controversial ruling in the Fisker Automotive case limiting the amount of a secured creditor’s credit bid in a bankruptcy sale to the discounted purchase price the credit bidder had paid to acquire the secured debt. Among...

As in George Orwell’s Animal Farm , where “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others,” 1 so it seems for creditors with regard to the priority scheme established under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code to bring fairness and certainty to distributions in bankruptcy. In connection...

Section 546(e) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code limits the avoiding powers of trustees and debtors in possession. 1 Often called the “safe harbor provision,” the purpose of the limitations, as expressed in the legislative history accompanying the 1982 amendment that added this provision to the...

As this article is written, the price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil (around $59.48/barrel as of June 30) remains 44 percent below a year ago, notwithstanding a recovery from the multiyear lows seen early this year. 1 While some observers speculate that this precipitous decline is the...

As many in the turnaround and distressed space know, the total number of bankruptcy filings continues to languish. In Q1 2015, business bankruptcy filings were down more than 3 percent from Q4 2014 and 19 percent from Q1 2014. 1 In fact, Q1 2015’s filing count continues to mirror the lowest...

The financial distress being experienced by many, if not most, colleges and universities—large and small, public and private, for-profit and not-for-profit—was thrust into the public eye by the May 2015 Chapter 11 filing of Corinthian Colleges, which had 107 campuses, employed over 10,000 people,...