Marc J. Carmel has joined Longford Capital , a litigation finance firm, as a director in Chicago. Carmel practiced law for 17 years, most recently with Paul Hastings LLC, representing clients in restructurings and bankruptcies involving companies throughout the U.S. Now, Carmel focuses on deploying...
K arl R. Norton is a vice president with more than 15 years of banking experience with Comerica Bank in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has served Comerica’s Special Assets Group in West Michigan for nearly 14 years, handling workout deals from the Middle Market, Small Business, and Private Banking...
Portfolio companies sometimes fail. This obviously isn’t breaking news, as master funds routinely divest themselves of investments. Sometimes the investment never worked out, or the portfolio may have simply run the course of its natural shelf life. Whatever the impetus may be, it’s important to...
Private equity firms routinely appoint directors to boards of their privately held portfolio companies and other investment vehicles, some of which will eventually face financial distress. Often, a person appointed to a board by a private equity firm has a relationship with the firm ( e.g. , they...
Target. Yahoo! PF Chang’s. Home Depot. Sony. These are but a handful of the headline-grabbing privacy and data breach incidents that have had direct negative business impacts on the affected companies. Organizations that ignore the reality of these incidents, as well as the growing body of...
Because of the typical three- to five-year holding period of private equity firms’ ownership in portfolio companies, PE firms are typically highly experienced in the acquisition and disposition of companies and the nuances of dealmaking. In the current environment, where access to capital is...
The ground is shifting under private equity (PE) firms. Strong fundraising in vintage years combined with slower deal flow has led to PE firms holding onto more and more capital, with few true value-creating opportunities available in developed industries and markets. Combine those facts with...
Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases generally conclude in one of three ways: a plan, conversion to a liquidation under Chapter 7, or dismissal. Classically, dismissal restores the debtor to its financial condition as of the date it filed bankruptcy, but “for cause” Bankruptcy Courts can order a “structured...
While the main focus of academic and professional investment research in the risky corporate credit market has typically been on the performance of high-yield bonds, including, importantly, the default and recovery rates of those bonds that default, there is very little similar work on defaulted...
Please join us for our Annual Fall Kick-Off on the patio at Birmingham Country Club, Thursday, September 14 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Reconnect with your colleagues and develop relationships with the professionals in our community who will drive business your way. We are pleased to welcome Greg...
