“Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend” - Hamlet, Act I, Scene III. If Shakespeare were a distressed investor in today’s environment, he might change his view. A low inflation and low interest rate economy in the U.S. has fueled the emergence of turnaround...
When the topic of the next recession comes up in conversation, almost everyone in the turnaround industry has either uttered or heard some variation of the phrase, “We are almost there.” The authors—attorneys whose practices generally ebb and flow contrary to the business cycle—have found...
Like Vladimir and Estragon in Samuel Beckett’s famous play “Waiting for Godot,” distressed investors have spent a substantial amount of time awaiting the arrival of their own mysterious figure: the next distressed cycle. Over the past decade, this elusive Godot has failed to materialize, despite...
Having spent the past 18 years at SB360 Capital Partners (formerly SB Capital Group), I can say with certainty that the turnaround industry has evolved. What surprises me most is how we have been forced to change our own industry, even though at times it didn’t seem broken. But if you think about...
The past few years have brought a number of large rights offerings in bankruptcies in the energy, healthcare, and retail sectors. Between January 1, 2015, and December 1, 2017, more than $5.5 billion was raised through rights offerings or private placements in more than two dozen large bankruptcy...
The distressed investor considers investing in securities of companies that are either in bankruptcy or are approaching bankruptcy. Typically, these companies have outstanding claims greater than the value of the assets and are experiencing difficulty in servicing their debt. There is a real...
In the robust financing environment of 2017, commercial bankruptcies leveled off from credit-crisis highs. Through the first three quarters of 2017, commercial bankruptcies totaled 17,371, a significant decline from the 2009 peak year, when 45,510 commercial bankruptcies were filed in the first...
