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Financial Analysis & Capital Structure

Financial Analysis & Capital Structure topics pertain to issues involving cash flow, loan workouts, and valuations, amongst others. Sessions categorized within this domain will aid both the seasoned and junior restructuring professional as they attempt to tackle the challenges presented on a client’s balance sheet or assets.


2017 Sessions

Bitcoin, Blockchain, & Beyond

Chapter: Arizona

Speaker:

  • Bryce Suzuki, Partner at Bryan Cave

Date: January 19, 2017

Registration: Member: $45 Nonmember: $55 NextGen/Young Professional: $35 Student: $25

 

Annual Asset-Based Lending Panel

Chapter: Northeast

Speakers:

  • Moderator: Frank Segall, Burns & Levinson 
  • Seth Benefield, Bank of America Business Capital
  • Cheryl Carner, Crystal Financial
  • Greg Segall, Versa Capital Management
  • Matt Williams, Wells Fargo

Date: March 10, 2017

Registration: Member: $75 Nonmember: $125

 

2017 TMA Case Study Luncheon Series Session 3: "Sinking Ship LLC" A Receivership Tale

Chapter: West Michigan

Speakers:

  • Moderator: Ben White, White Law Firm
  • David Bevins, Rhoades McKee
  • John Jansen, Conway MacKenzie
  • Michael McElwee, Varnum
  • Karl Norton, Comerica Bank

Date: March 14, 2017

Registration: Member: $25 Nonmember: $40 Next Gen/Young Professional: $15

 

De-risk: How Traditional Banks Are Teaming with Non-Bank Lenders

Chapter: Tennessee

Speakers:

  • Mark Forti, Managing Director, Gordon Brothers
  • Christopher Godwin, Vice President, Gen Cap America, Inc.

Date: March 16, 2017

Registration: Member: $50 Nonmember: $65 Next Gen/Young Professional: $50

 

Current Insight on Credit Approval 

Chapter: Minnesota

The below panel of local credit officers will provide current insight on the credit approval process. They will address topics such as pricing, terms, the current regulatory environment and the impact the current administration is having on those topics.

Speakers:

  • Moderator: Brian Van Nevel, SPECTRUM Commercial Services 
  • Mark Nankivel, Bremer Bank
  • Mike Gulan, Anchor Bank
  • Dave Larson, Wells Fargo

Date: March 16, 2017

Registration: Early Bird Member: $30 Early Bird Nonmember: $45 Early Bird Next Gen/Young Professional: $30 Member: $45 Nonmember: $75 Next Gen/Young Professional:$45 Student: $45

 

Finance: It's a Whole New World

Chapter: Arizona

Speaker:

  • Professor David Musto, University of Pennsylvania

Date: March 16, 2017

Registration: Member: $40 Nonmember: $55 Next Gen/Young Professional: $35

 

Senior Bank Credit Officer Panel

Chapter: New York - Upstate

Join us and the Buffalo and Empire Chapters of the RMA for an insightful discussion on the current state and outlook for commercial lending with senior banking credit officers who will provide the audience the perspective of local community & regional banks on the current commercial lending credit environment to assist in working with their own businesses or on behalf of clients in managing their capital needs. 

Speakers:

  • Vincent J. Harper, Administrative Vice President & Regional Manager, M & T Bank
  • David N. Richardson, Senior Vice President and Deputy Credit Officer, M&T Bank
  • David G. Caser, Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Credit Officer, Five Star Bank
  • David L. Books, Senior Vice President, Chief Learning Officer and Director, ESL Federal Credit Union
  • Michael Maalaber, Senior Vice President, Commercial Services, Canandaigua National Bank

Date: March 16, 2017

Registration: Member: $30 Nonmember: $40 Next Gen/Young Professional: $25 Academic/Government: $30

 

CTTMA, TMA NE, ABI & NYIC Credit & Bankruptcy Symposium

Chapter: Regional

Date: May 4 - May 5, 2017

 

Chapter Luncheon - SLC State of the Economy

Chapter: Rocky Mountain

Date: May 23, 2017

Registration: Member: $35 Nonmmber: $50 

 

2016 Sessions

Opening Keynote: Tom Petrie, CEO of Petrie Partners
2016 Distressed Investing Conference 

During his career, Mr. Petrie has been an active advisor on more than $200 billion of energy related mergers and acquisitions, including many of the largest in the industry. Among his other assignments, Mr. Petrie led the teams that advised the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on its natural gas initiative, the State of Alaska on gas pipeline options, and the U.S. Department of Energy on the sale of the Elk Hills oilfield.

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Commercial Loan Workouts In An Increasingly Complex Regulatory Environment
2016 Western Regional Conference 

The legal and regulatory burden is becoming massive in the United States. U.S. agencies published 3,586 final rules in 2015 alone. Bankers, including special asset managers, operate under a byzantine array of rules and regulations. The regulatory framework is not only growing, it is evolving (changing) over time. Bankers receive constant training on these topics and banks are continuously refining their compliance processes. To competently perform their roles, restructuring and workout professionals must have an appreciation of the regulatory framework applicable to banks and their customers.

Speakers:

  • Moderator: Annette W. Jarvis, Partner Dorsey & Whitney LLP   
  • Seth Moldoff, East West Bank
  • Joel M. Minamide, U.S. Bank
  • Robert Miller, Bryan Cave
  • Joel Steiner, Union Bank

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Disruption in Silicon Valley
2016 Western Regional Conference 

Panel Overview

• On-demand Industry

• Valuations

• Legal Issues

• Future of the industry

• Opportunities for restructuring professionals

Speakers:

  • Judge Peter Kirwan, Santa Clara County Superior Court, Manager Complex Trials Division
  • Noriko Hyden, Consulting Practice Group, Burr Pilger Mayer. San Francisco, Ca
  • Stephen O’Neill, Dorsey & Whitney, Palo Alto, CA
  • Brennan Libbey, Livingstone Partners, Los Angeles, CA

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Bankruptcy Jeopardy Powerpoint
2016 Annual

Women in bankruptcy game.

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Fiduciaries Gone Wild: Corporate Governance for Distressed Entities 
2016 Annual

What happens when money is taken out of a healthy company, when there’s a conflict with the parent/subsidiary when the subsidiary is insolvent, and when professional issues arise associated with corporate governance? 

Speakers:

  • Moderator: Dennis Connolly, Partner, Alston & Bird LLP
  • Jeff Dulberg, Partner, Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP
  • Katie Goodman, Managing Partner, GGG Partners
  • James Hadfield, Managing Director, Guggenheim Securities LLC
  • Matthew Tarver, Vice President, Renovo Capital, LLC

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2015 Sessions

The Valuation of Distressed Businesses: Establishing a Framework and Avoiding Pitfalls
2015 Distressed Investing Conference

Financially distressed businesses behave in unpredictable ways, which adds to the challenges of assessing the value of such businesses. This session considers guideline transactions, discount rates, the cost of financial distress, the value of tax shields, and other factors in the context of valuing financially distressed businesses. When properly considered and evaluated, such factors can offer structure, methodologies and techniques that assist in avoiding valuation pitfalls and provide a framework from which meaningful and supportable conclusions of value can be derived.

Speakers:

  • Grant W. Newton, Medford, OR
  • Paul Shields, Salt Lake City, UT
  • Teri Stratton, El Segundo, CA

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Alternatives to Bankruptcy
The 2015 TMA Annual

This session helps you to understand alternatives in a distressed situation and how the decisions are made. This session covers strategies for creating value in a distressed sale, driving competition amongst bidders while keeping customers during the process, and what leads companies to do a 363 sale and the alternatives and opportunities they face along the way.

Speakers:

  • Harvey Chaiton, Toronto, ON
  • Scott Eisenberg, Birmingham, MI 
  • Teresa C. Kohl, Conshohocken, PA
  • M. Natasha Labovitz, New York, NY
  • Jerry Pence, Phoenix, AZ
  • Boris J. Steffen, Ashburn, VA

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Capital Markets: Is 8 the New 6 in the World of Purchase Price Multiples?
The 2015 TMA Annual

If 50 is indeed the new 40, is eight the new six in the world of purchase price multiples, and what might the implications be for corporate renewal professionals?

Speakers:

  • Duncan Bourne, CTP, Rosemont, IL
  • Joseph J. Fobbe, Rosemont, IL
  • David E. Fraimow, Philadelphia, PA
  • Lawrence E. Klaff, Boston, MA
  • Marc Liebman, Phoenix, AZ

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2014 Sessions

The Financing and M&A Markets in 2014

Chapter: Tennessee

Date: January 30th, 2014

 

Buy-Side Distressed Investing Trends and Issues
2014 Distressed Investing Conference

Speakers:

  • Matt Bloom, New York, NY
  • Matthew Garff, Los Angeles, CA

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Debt for Control Deals: Obstacles, Solutions, and Opportunities
2014 Distressed Investing Conference

Practical discussion of issues faced—many on a recurring basis—and solutions found in cutting-edge loan-to-own deals. Topics include busting the ghosts of DBSD (avoiding pitfalls from critical cases in loan-to-own scenarios), credit bidding – benefit without burden (control credit bid prior to outlay of capital for secured debt), conquering lending group holdouts, dealing with foreign assets, DIP strategies, and special issues in regulated industries.

Speakers:

  • Hon. Scott C. Clarkson, Santa Ana, CA
  • David L. Eaton, Chicago, IL
  • David S. Heller, Chicago, IL
  • Matthew Niemann, Los Angeles, CA

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The Fulcrum Playbook: How has the Last Cycle Changed Things
2014 Distressed Investing Conference

Where do investors need to be in the capital structure to maximize recovery in the most efficient time period? With uncertainty as the focus, panelists discussed issues surrounding the decisions in riding through a bankruptcy process or selling positions due to uncertainties.

Speakers:

  • Gary Lembo, New York, NY
  • Mack McNair, Redwood City, CA
  • Leonard Tannenbaum, Armonk, NY

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2013 Sessions

The Cornerstone to the Distressed Debt Investment Realization
2013 Distressed Investing Conference

Speakers:

  • John Wm. "Jack" Butler, Jr., Chicago, IL
  • William P. Angrick, III, Washington, DC
  • Paul M. Buxbaum, Agoura Hills, CA
  • Albert T. Nassi, Westlake Village, CA

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Outlook, Opportunities, and Pitfalls of Distressed Debt in Europe
2013 Distressed Investing Conference

Speakers:

  • Neville Kahn, London, UK
  • Corinne Ball, New York, NY
  • James P Shinehouse, Philadelphia, PA
  • Paul McGowan, London, UK

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Complex Capital Structure/Loan Documents
2013 Distressed Investing Conference

Unitranche structures are one of the most prevalent middle market financing structures today. The structures are varied and evolving quickly. Unitranches present unique interlender issues that have yet to be tested in insolvency and restructurings. The panelists, some of the most prominent and active unitranche players in the industry, will discuss how unitranche transactions are structured, debate the unique features of interlender arrangements, and speculate as to how these structures might play out in bankruptcy.

Speakers:

  • Moderator: Peter J. Antoszyk, Boston, MA
  • John J. Brignola, Philadelphia, PA
  • Thomas E. Lane, Los Angeles, CA
  • Michael E. Fishman, San Francisco, CA
  • Christopher Flynn, Boston, MA
  • Brent Humphries, New York, NY

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Distressed Real Estate Chapter 2 - the Next (and Final?) Phase
2013 Distressed Investing Conference

Now that the banks, servicers, advisors, and professionals have gone through four years of workouts what lies ahead? Which geographic regions can see light at the end of the tunnel and which ones still have danger looming ahead? This panel will explore how the world has changed over the past four years, with insight from the top minds in the real estate restructuring world. The panelists will touch on how deals get completed in this phase of the cycle and how the capital markets view certain situations and certain markets.

Speakers:

  • Moderator: Matthew Bordwin, Melville, NY
  • David Tobin, New York, NY
  • Jonathan Klein, Los Angeles, CA
  • Jonathan S. Shenson, Los Angeles, CA
  • Larry Grantham, Los Angeles, CA

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2012 Sessions

Follow the Money - The Ultimate Investor's Prospective
2012 Distressed Investing Conference

The appetite for certain kinds of investments is in large part the result of direction established by institutional limited partners. To understand what investments are attractive, you must understand how the ultimate investor is motivated. What is the investor’s view of the macro environment? How has historic performance in distressed investing impacted their portfolios? How much are institutional investors willing to allocate to distressed investing? What criteria drive a manager’s selection? Are investors and managers aligned today? How have their distressed investments done in comparison to other parts of their portfolio? Is the investor adequately compensated for the risk and illiquidity? This session will explore these questions and more with several of the most prominent limited partners in the world.

Learning objectives:

  • Gain a clear understanding of what motivates institutional investors and their portfolio managers
  • Glean insights into where investors perceive upcoming opportunities
  • Understand how private-equity sponsors tailor their investment strategies to attract institutional capital

Speakers:

  • Jonathan Rosenthal (moderator), Santa Monica, CA
  • J.B. Hayes, Portland, OR
  • M. Robert Maeder, Cincinnati, OH
  • Eric Denneny, Chicago, IL 
  • John Kyles, Darien, CT
  • Drew Smith, Saint Paul, MN

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Lenders Battling Over a Melting Ice Cube - Delphi's Emergence from Chapter 11
2012 Distressed Investing Conference

Delphi’s bankruptcy exposed critical faultiness between post-petition lenders. The case generated intense conflict between members of the different tranches of the DIP loan syndicate, and pitted the DIP syndicate against another post-petition lender—General Motors, under substantial control by the federal government— with its own special interest in the outcome of the bankruptcy as Delphi’s primary customer. Each conflict was resolved in interesting and groundbreaking ways. These cutting-edge developments offer useful lessons on the scope of collective action clauses, the right to credit bid, the strength of customary postpetition lender protections, and strategies for resolving intercreditor conflict and for resolving an administratively insolvent case.

Learning objectives:

  • Assess contractual strategies for resolving intercreditor conflicts
  • Assess debt documents for intent about collective action
  • Assess latest legal developments about debtors’ and creditors’ rights pertaining to credit bids

Speakers:

  • Moderator: Laura B. Resnikoff, New York, NY 
  • John Wm. "Jack" Butler Jr., Chicago, IL
  • Brian Resnik, New York, NY
  • Marc Abrams, New York, NY
  • Edward Morrison, New York, NY

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Maximizing Business Value and Asset Recoveries - Putting Everything on the Table
2012 Distressed Investing Conference

There are many ways to create business value, but how confident are you in ensuring that process maximized the business value or asset recovery? This session will provide both a broad overview of how to maximize business value or a one-off asset recovery, and the tactical approaches to achieve the maximum recovery. Whether value is created by the sale of a business through an out of-court or a Section 363 process, or by real estate, tangible or intangible assets, or optimizing supplier contracts, this panel of experts will provide examples of how business values and asset recoveries can be maximized and even some lessons learned.

Learning objectives:

  • Identify and understand several approaches to maximizing business value and asset recoveries
  • Learn about specific tactics for maximizing asset recovery, the process, and related timelines, based on first-hand experience of our panel experts
  • Gain insight into which approach or tactic is appropriate for certain situations

Speakers:

  • Moderaotr: Ken Mann, Easton, MD
  • Kenny Finkelstein, Toronto, ON
  • Adam Reich, Los Angeles, CA
  • Daniel F. Dooley, CTP, Chicago, IL
  • Kenneth Frieze, Boston, MA
  • Matthew Schwab, Los Angeles, CA

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