Sponsors
Platinum Sponsors
Alix Partners, LLP
For more than forty years, AlixPartners has helped businesses around the world respond quickly and decisively to their most critical challenges – circumstances as diverse as urgent performance improvement, accelerated transformation, complex restructuring and risk mitigation. These are the moments when everything is on the line – a sudden shift in the market, an unexpected performance decline, a time-sensitive deal, a fork-in-the-road decision. But it’s not what we do that makes a difference, it’s how we do it. Tackling situations when time is of the essence is part of our DNA – so we adopt an action-oriented approach at all times. We work in small, highly qualified teams with specific industry and functional expertise, and we operate at pace, moving quickly from analysis to implementation. We stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients until the job is done, and only measure our success in terms of the results we deliver. Our approach enables us to help our clients confront and overcome truly future-defining challenges. We partner with you to make the right decisions and take the right actions. And we are right by your side. When it really matters. Recent Awards & Recognition: - Best Firm to Work For – Consulting Magazine, 2023 - Best Places to Work For LGBTQ+ Equality – Human Rights Campaign, 2022 - Best Management Consulting Firms – Forbes, 2021 - Ranked in the Top 10 in UHLALA Group’s Pride Index
C Street Advisory Group
C Street guides the world’s leading companies through their most complex financial and operational times, empowering them to act with confidence, protect their reputations, and achieve success.
C Street was built to redefine how companies communicate and lead in complex special situations by combining decades of legal insight with strategic communications expertise in a single, integrated firm. In 2024, we launched the industry’s first dedicated liability management communications practice, giving companies and sponsors a trusted partner for messaging around complex capital structure transactions.
Today, C Street is pioneering a new model for strategic advisory by helping clients navigate high-stakes moments, engage stakeholders, and position their business for long-term success.
Goodwin Procter LLP
At Goodwin, we deliver unprecedented client value through a unique combination of industry knowledge, legal excellence, and business advisory expertise — all powered by our high-performance culture. More than 1,800 Goodwin Procter lawyers focus on building authentic, long-term relationships with our clients, who are some of the world’s most successful and innovative investors, entrepreneurs and disruptors at the convergence of and within the life sciences, private equity, real estate, technology, and financial industries.
Our Global Operations Team (all business professionals) partners with our lawyers and clients across multiple business of law functions, providing for a truly unique and differentiated client service model.
Our immersive understanding of our clients’ industries – combined with our expertise across high-stakes litigation and dispute resolution, world-class regulatory compliance and advisory services, and complex transactions – sets us apart.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
We are an international law firm that serves a broad range of clients around the world in private equity, M&A and other complex corporate transactions; investment fund formation and alternative asset management; restructurings; high-stakes commercial and intellectual property litigation; and white collar and government disputes. We offer the highest quality legal advice coupled with extraordinary, tailored service to deliver exceptional results to our clients and help their businesses succeed. We invest in the brightest legal talent and build dynamic teams that operate at the pinnacle of their respective areas. And we believe in empowering our lawyers, encouraging entrepreneurialism, operating ethically and with integrity, and collaborating to bring our best to every engagement. These principles have guided us in building successful long-term partnerships with clients since our founding in 1909.
Stretto
Stretto offers innovative administrative and advisory solutions to legal and financial complexities. From large-scale distributions to complex insolvency matters, we handle a diverse range of needs with experience and ingenuity. Whether dealing with the everyday or mission critical, Stretto’s subject-matter experts leverage cutting-edge resources and industry partners to meet the moment on time, every time.
Gold Sponsors
Arthur B. Levine Company
The Arthur B. Levine Co., Inc. has been an independent surety bond agency since 1981. Located by Grand Central Station in the heart of New York City, the Levine Company has always focused exclusively on surety bonds.
We work with the best sureties in the industry and all are A-rated companies. This means we have the ability to place your business with the company that works best for your special needs. Our quick, informed and diligent service helps guide the most complicated cases.
We are proud members of the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees (NABT), Turnaround Management Association (TMA), American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI), International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC), Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors (AIRA) and the National Association of Chapter Thirteen Trustees (NACTT).
BakerHostetler LLP
Recognized as one of the top firms for client service and quality of legal services, BakerHostetler is a leading law firm that helps clients around the world address their most complex and critical business and regulatory issues. With six core practice groups – Business, Digital Assets and Data Management, Intellectual Property, Labor and Employment, Litigation, and Tax – the firm has lawyers in offices coast to coast, serving clients across the United States and in more than 100 countries. Baker & Hosteler LLP was founded in 1916 by Newton D. Baker, Joseph C. Hostetler and Thomas L. Sidlo. Today, we have more than 1,000 attorneys contributing to the success of our clients. The values they share are the same ideals on which our firm was founded: love and respect for the law, respect for each other, and the courage to make hard decisions on the basis of what they know to be right.
Deloitte
https://www.deloitte.com/us/en.html
For over 175 years, we have worked with leaders around the world—from the Global 500® to private businesses—to help them build better futures. To support their people. To succeed. All while caring for our communities.
With a workforce made up of the industry’s greatest minds, we continue to shape the future by delivering real, measurable results. We go beyond talk—we act.
DLA Piper LLP
https://www.dlapiper.com/en-us
DLA Piper is a global law firm helping our clients achieve their goals wherever they do business. Our pursuit of innovation has transformed our delivery of legal services. With offices in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, we deliver exceptional outcomes on cross-border projects, critical transactions and high-stakes disputes. Every day we help trailblazing organizations seize business opportunities and successfully manage growth and change at speed. Through our pro bono work and community investment around the world, we help create a more just and sustainable future. Visit dlapiper.com to discover more.
We represent companies, creditors and other financial stakeholders globally in all aspects of business and financial restructurings, informal strategic advice, risk mitigation and formal measures. We provide innovative and tailored solutions, allowing clients to maximize the chances of a successful outcome, while minimizing financial and reputational risk.
Duane Morris LLP
Duane Morris LLP, a law firm with more than 900 attorneys in offices across the United States and internationally, is asked by a broad array of clients to provide innovative solutions to today's legal and business challenges.
The Duane Morris Business Reorganization and Financial Restructuring Practice Group has earned a reputation for thoroughly understanding the rights and obligations of the various constituencies involved with a financially distressed company, developing a plan of action designed to achieve clients’ goals, and executing that plan under what are often very difficult and rapidly changing circumstances. Regardless of whether the plan of action involves representation in a bankruptcy case, the enforcement of creditors’ rights, an out-of-court financial restructuring transaction or cross-border insolvency, Duane Morris lawyers are fully prepared to protect and advance our clients’ interests.
Financial news organization The Deal has consistently ranked Duane Morris among the top bankruptcy practices in the United States from 2018 to 2024. In addition, our lawyers continuously stay apprised of all major developments in the law affecting our clients' rights. They organize and speak at conferences and professional meetings, and regularly author materials on significant legal developments, other timely topics and the current environment in the capital markets.
Foley & Lardner LLP
Foley & Lardner LLP stands at the nexus of the Energy & Infrastructure, Health Care & Life Sciences, Innovative Technology, and Manufacturing Sectors. We look beyond the law at the constantly evolving demands facing our clients and act as trusted business advisors to deliver creative, practical, and effective solutions. Our 1,100 lawyers across 27 offices worldwide partner on the full range of engagements from corporate counsel to intellectual property work and litigation support, providing a one-team solution. We are committed to innovative legal services and to the stewardship of our people, firm, clients, and the communities we serve.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP
Freshfields is a global firm with over 280 years’ experience of anticipating change, setting new standards and shaping the future of law. In a complex world where new opportunities evolve quickly, we are a trusted, forward-thinking partner who can give clients the edge and help propel their ambitions. At Freshfields we are steadfast champions of our clients—that’s why leading global companies turn to us when it matters most. We are proud to be recognised as a top-tier leader in the practice areas most important to clients around the world today. We bring bold thinking, deep expertise and the latest capabilities to help clients make critical decisions, prepare for new opportunities, and tackle unprecedented matters. When opportunities stretch across borders, we connect clients with experts and advisors from across our global team. We are deeply committed to making a positive impact for our clients, our communities and the people we serve, and we are transparent about our efforts to drive change.
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FTI Consulting, Inc.
FTI Consulting is the leading global expert firm for organizations facing crisis and transformation, with more than 7,900 employees in 32 countries and territories.
Over the last 40 years, FTI Consulting has grown to become a market-leading global consulting firm that brings together distinct capabilities and experts to serve as the trusted advisor to clients when they are facing their greatest opportunities and challenges. Each practice is a leader in its own right, staffed with experts recognized for the depth of their knowledge and a track record of making an impact. Collectively, FTI Consulting offers a comprehensive suite of services designed to assist clients across the business cycle—from proactive risk management to the ability to respond rapidly to unexpected crises and dynamic environments.
Kroll, LLC
As the leading independent provider of risk and financial advisory solutions, Kroll leverages our unique insights, data and technology to help clients stay ahead of complex demands. Kroll's team of more than 6,500 professionals worldwide continues the firm’s nearly 100-year history of trusted expertise spanning risk, governance, transactions and valuation. Our advanced solutions and intelligence provide clients the foresight they need to create an enduring competitive advantage. At Kroll, our values define who we are and how we partner with clients and communities. Learn more at Kroll.com.
Teneo
Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm. We partner with our clients globally to do great things for a better future. Drawing upon our global team and expansive network of senior advisors, we provide advisory services across our five business segments on a stand-alone or fully integrated basis to help our clients solve complex business challenges. Our clients include a significant number of the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100, as well as other corporations, financial institutions and organizations. Our full range of advisory services includes strategic communications, investor relations, financial transactions and restructuring, management consulting, physical and cyber risk, organizational design, board and executive search, geopolitics and government affairs, corporate governance and ESG.
Winston & Strawn LLP
Winston & Strawn LLP is an international law firm with more than 975 attorneys in key financial centers around the world. We bring an understanding of the global and industry-specific legal and business issues our clients face in transactions, disputes, and regulatory/enforcement-related matters. We litigate cases and close transactions. We are shrewd advisers, and our clients view us as trusted business partners. We strive to provide our clients with creative solutions to their business problems—on time and on budget. We serve our communities and the public interest, expand access to opportunity within our firm and throughout the legal profession, and maintain a culture of inclusion, teamwork, and collegiality.
Silver Sponsors
Alvarez & Marsal
https://www.alvarezandmarsal.com/expertise/restructuring-turnaround
Alvarez & Marsal is a leading global professional services firm dedicated to helping organizations tackle their most complex business issues, maximize stakeholder value, and deliver sustainable change. Privately held since its founding in 1983, clients select us for our deep expertise and proven ability to create and deliver practical solutions to their unique problems. Leveraging A&M’s restructuring heritage, our fact-driven, action-oriented approach empowers organizations to drive transformation and unlock value at every stage of growth. Our worldwide network extends across six continents, with over 10,000 people comprised of experienced operators, world-class consultants, former regulators and industry authorities. We foster a uniquely collaborative environment that embraces our peoples’ diverse perspectives and A&M’s entrepreneurial spirit to deliver end-to-end capabilities that span advisory, business performance improvement, and turnaround management.
Carl Marks Advisors
https://www.carlmarksadvisors.com/
Carl Marks Advisors is an investment bank that provides financial and operational advisory services. We are a collaborative partner delivering effective and durable results for our clients – whether they need solutions to complex problems or help navigating transition and growth. Our proactive, persistent approach breaks through roadblocks, identifies a viable path forward, and creates the alignment and momentum needed to achieve successful outcomes. At Carl Marks Advisors, we custom build integrated service teams for each client, uniting operational, transactional, and industry expertise to create effective solutions in even the most challenging situations. Our senior professionals are hands-on leaders who collaborate with clients to develop and implement improvement initiatives while enabling management teams to focus on running their businesses.
Cullen and Dykman LLP
At Cullen and Dykman, our clients are the center of everything we do. Our lawyers take the time to develop a comprehensive understanding of our clients' current business models and long-term objectives so that we can formulate strategies that generate success today and into the future. Our sophisticated and preeminent financial services, litigation and energy practices serve core industries with individualized needs providing cost-effective solutions grounded in nearly two centuries of experience. With the breadth of our Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights practice, we are able to offer clients a unique perspective into the issues involved in complex bankruptcy proceedings in a wide range of industries. We have represented secured creditors, debtors, unsecured creditors’ committees, and individual unsecured creditors in Chapter 11 cases filed throughout the country, and we are skilled in resolving issues among various constituencies in complex Chapter 11 proceedings. We also have significant experience in out-of-court workouts, restructurings and bankruptcy litigation, and we have secured favorable results for our clients in some of the largest and most complex bankruptcy cases ever filed.
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP (including its associated entities) is an elite global law firm with world-class practices across the board. Clients know they can rely on Davis Polk for their most challenging legal and business matters. From offices in the world’s key financial centers and political capitals, our more than 1,000 lawyers collaborate seamlessly to deliver exceptional service, sophisticated advice and creative, practical solutions.
We are market leaders in U.S. and international restructurings and insolvencies, with extensive experience representing a wide range of parties.
Summary
Companies, directors, financial institutions, institutional investors, hedge funds, acquirers, trustees and administrators call upon us to design and execute value-maximizing strategies. We are critical advisers in restructurings in and out of court, liability management transactions, recapitalizations, exchange offers, debt/equity conversions, distressed M&A and bankruptcy litigation.
Our lawyers in the United States and Europe have advised on high-profile restructurings across industries including energy, retail and transportation – among them, Aeroméxico, California Resources, Chesapeake Energy, Delta Air Lines, Ford, Hertz, Purdue Pharma and Toys “R” Us. We are a premier firm for international and cross-border restructuring, including in Europe, Asia and Latin America.
EisnerAmper
EisnerAmper, one of the largest business consulting firms in the world, is comprised of EisnerAmper LLP, a licensed independent CPA firm that provides client attest services; and Eisner Advisory Group LLC, an alternative practice structure that provides business advisory and non-attest services in accordance with all applicable laws, regulations, standards and codes of conduct. Clients are in all business sectors and leverage a complete menu of service offerings. Eisner Advisory Group LLC and its subsidiary entities are not licensed CPA firms. Our combined entities include more than 450 partners and 4,500 employees. For more information, please visit eisneramper.com, and be sure to follow us on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, & TikTok.
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Epiq
Epiq provides the most comprehensive solution for corporate restructurings with lifecycle support, personalized solutions, proven technology, and responsive expertise. Our experienced management and staff have worked on more than 1,000 cases, including the largest cases in history, across every industry. This expertise, coupled with superior technology, enables Epiq to provide efficiency, rigor, and excellence. Epiq provides claims management and administration, noticing, contact center solutions, balloting and solicitation, strategic communication, and disbursement services. We do more than just process information – we provide consultation and value-added service.
Getzler Henrich & Associates LLC
Getzler Henrich & Associates partners with healthy and underperforming middle-market companies to navigate uncertainty and improve operations through a full array of turnaround, workout, crisis and interim management, corporate restructuring, bankruptcy, financial advisory, litigation support and distressed M&A services. Our firm focuses on providing operational and financial solutions to middle-market businesses and their stakeholders.
Lowenstein Sandler LLP
owenstein Sandler is a national law firm with over 350 lawyers working from five offices in New York, Palo Alto, New Jersey, Utah, and Washington, D.C. We represent clients in virtually every sector of the global economy, with particular strength in the areas of technology, life sciences, and the financial management and fund industries that fuel economic growth. We have built a reputation for pursuing every matter with creativity and passion. Our industry knowledge, entrepreneurial drive and proven commitment to our communities deliver a different and better law firm experience to our clients. We focus on building long-standing relationships and anticipating our clients’ needs, rather than responding to them. Working side-by-side with our clients, we serve not only as lawyers, but as trusted advisors. The firm approaches each case, each client, and each other with integrity and respect. And our award winning pro-bono work enables us to connect individuals and communities with unimaginable success.
McguireWoods LLP
McGuireWoods, one of the world’s leading law firms, has earned the loyalty of its many longstanding clients with deep and broad legal experience; a passion for understanding their businesses and markets; innovative delivery of practical, business-minded solutions; and unmatched service. With 1,100 lawyers in 21 offices worldwide, McGuireWoods’ continuing success comes down to one simple fact: The firm listens to its clients. That’s the reason they consistently place McGuireWoods among a select group of elite firms in surveys such as BTI Consulting’s Client Service A-Team, an annual ranking derived from unprompted feedback by general counsel and top decision-makers at Fortune 1,000 companies. McGuireWoods has been singled out for excellence on BTI’s Client Service 30 list 18 times. Financial Times also repeatedly recognizes McGuireWoods as one of the most innovative law firms in North America.
Meru LLC
We are MERU. An operationally focused professional services firm with a different point of view. We are a values-driven, impact-oriented team dedicated to helping companies. We work collaboratively with management and sponsors, use subject matter experts throughout the process, and structure our fees around successful outcomes. We believe our focused and agile approach, along with our experience working in complex situations, allows us to deliver superior results for our clients. VALUE PROPOSITION Experience: Senior leaders from the world’s top professional services organizations who know how to deliver successful outcomes in highly complex situations Deep bench: 200+ specialized subject matter experts with operator backgrounds who uncover hidden value and get things done Alignment: Highly flexible performance-based fee model that is aligned with successful outcomes Operator Mindset: Deep experience serving in interim executive roles and working hand-in-hand with management teams to get things done
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
Mintz is a full-service law firm serving clients in the life sciences, energy, private equity, and technology industries. The world’s most innovative companies trust Mintz to accelerate their business, protect and monetize their IP, negotiate deals, source financing, and solve complex legal challenges.
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Consistently recognized as industry leaders by Chambers USA, Legal 500 US, Law360, and The Deal, among others, MoFo’s Business Restructuring + Insolvency Group counsels clients around the globe on the issues that arise in relation to corporate distress, including some of the most significant bankruptcy cases in recent history.
We advise debtors, creditors, creditors’ committees, ad hoc committees, secured lenders, and specialist investors. The breadth of our practice allows us to find solutions for a broad range of participants in distressed markets and help them navigate their most complex issues.
Sullivan & Worcester LLP
As an international law firm with innovation in our DNA, we attract clients that are visionaries, trailblazers and game changers. Established companies pushing their industries in bold new directions. Growing businesses seeking new markets. Emerging companies pursuing disruptive business models. From investment management, cutting edge REITs and opportunity zones, to blockchain ventures and international tech IPOs, Sullivan guides organizations that are rewriting the rules. Our clients bring out our best – strategic vision, comfort with complexity and intense focus on results. Working together, we help them recognize new options and make confident strides to success. Together we’re recalibrating what it means to work with a law firm.
Verita
Now in our fifth decade of professional service, Verita offers a comprehensive range of legal, fiduciary, and administrative services to professionals around the world. Bringing together experts in Corporate Restructuring, Mass Tort, Settlement Administration, and Trustee and Fiduciary Services, we strive to earn our partners’ trust with exceptional service, unparalleled industry insights, and innovative technology that delivers results. Whatever the scope or complexity of the project, the Verita team is always ready to streamline our clients’ path forward. We offer both a strategic perspective and proven solutions that they can depend on for every step of their engagement.
