Anyone eating at an Applebee’s, Buffalo Wild Wings, Chili’s, Olive Garden, Outback Steakhouse, Ruby Tuesday, or TGI Fridays is patronizing a casual dining restaurant. Casual dining establishments provide table service and have “price points of approximately $15 per meal” and “menus with a much...

In classical turnaround theory, an advisor/consultant/chief restructuring officer (CRO) arrives on the scene of a cash-strapped troubled organization armed with expertise in preparing and analyzing cash-flow and income projections, organization assessment tools, rationalization processes, and other...

When an insolvent company contemplates filing for creditor protection under one of Canada’s principle restructuring statutes, it may require interim financing or, as more typically referred to in the U.S., debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing. The availability of, and allowance for, DIP financing...

In today’s world, the ability to move money around the globe with relative ease, combined with increasing competition among investors who require double-digit returns, has made Europe—and more specifically, Germany—an attractive venue for purchasing assets. Due to Germany’s large industrial base,...

Venezuela is one of the richest countries in Latin America and has the world’s largest oil reserves. But it also has too much debt, severe corruption, and related economic, political, and social problems. What unfolds there will make it a top restructuring story in 2018 and beyond. Venezuela’s...

Michael M. Parker is a partner with Norton Rose Fulbright in San Antonio and Austin, Texas. For 25 years, he has focused his practice on bankruptcy and insolvency-related litigation and workouts in a broad range of industries. Parker has considerable experience representing large and small buyers...

This is one in an occasional series of roundtable discussions by Certified Turnaround Professionals (CTPs) on issues impacting the turnaround, restructuring, and distressed investing industry. In this installment, Robert Handler, CTP , Commercial Recovery Associates; Bernadette Barron, CTP , Barron...

Shara C. Cornell has joined McDonald Hopkins LLC as an associate in the firm’s Chicago office. She has six years of experience representing secured and unsecured creditors in restructuring and bankruptcy proceedings, including large Chapter 11 bankruptcies. Cornell holds an LLM in bankruptcy and a...

Alabama Julian Lester Alexander III, 
 AEA Group LLC Frederick Clarke III, 
 Rumberger Kirk & Caldwell PA Brooks A. McElveen, 
 Accounting, Economics and Appraisal Group Arizona Craig J. Bolton, MidFirst Bank Patrick A. Clisham, Engelman Berger PC Randy Nussbaum, Sacks Tierney PA Atlanta Ron C...

You may be familiar with the “six degrees of separation” theory—the idea that every person in the world is connected to every other person by six or fewer steps. According to the six degrees theory, every one of an estimated 7.6 billion people in the world can be connected to every other person on...