In good economic times and in bad, businesses of all types and sizes can run into trouble. When a refinancing or other stand-alone solution is unworkable, the optimal strategy for the distressed enterprise may be a sale of all, or part of, the company.

Yet the task of selling the troubled company has become increasingly complex as a result of dramatic changes in the legal and economic environment:

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Distressed Debt Portfolio Managers
• Asset-Based and Commercial Lenders
• Hedge Funds and Other Non-Institutional
  Capital Providers
• Crisis Managers and Loan Workout Specialists
• Restructuring, M&A and Corporate Finance
  Attorneys
• Officers, Directors, Management and
  Advisors of Troubled Companies
• Private Equity Groups

TOPICS INCLUDE

• Evaluating the competing interests of creditors and current issues in inter-creditor agreements
• Reviewing the impact of recent changes in bankrupcy law
• Strategically evaluating alternatives available to the financially troubled company and its creditors
• Illustrating the unique issues facing senior and subordinated secured lenders, unsecured creditors, bondholders, shareholders and directors, as well as buyers
• Effectively valuing the distressed company
• Explaining methods for capturing value in the distressed company
• Managing expectations and establishing achievable goals for the distressed sale process
• Evaluating the costs versus benefits of an in-court versus out-of-court M&A solution
• Conducting the sale process
• Evaluating bids and comparing creditor
  distributions from alternative transactions