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Buying Distressed Businesses: “Loan to Own” and Other Strategies, Part 1—OSB CLE Quick Call (Replay)
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1 General CLE credit
There have never been more opportunities to acquire distressed businesses. Tight credit and a slow and uneven economic recovery have converged to force many businesses into capital shortages and default. There is substantial value in those businesses if they can survive the economic storm—and therein lies the opportunity. Get a practical interdisciplinary guide to the legal and financial aspects of helping your clients identify value in distressed businesses, structure transactions in and outside of bankruptcy to capture that value while limiting liability, and position the acquisition for growth in the future.
Day 1—August 19, 2010
- State of the market in buying and selling distressed businesses
- Identifying and quantifying value in distressed businesses
- Legal framework of buying/selling distressed businesses
- Acquiring value while limiting successor liability
- Nonbankruptcy strategies for acquiring/selling businesses
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Day 2—August 20, 2010
- Bankruptcy framework for buying distressed businesses
- Buying assets and businesses at bankruptcy auctions—how they work, the players, and traps for those new to the process
- “Loan to own” strategies for acquiring distressed businesses
- Major liability issues when buying a bankrupt business and techniques for limiting liability
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Speakers: John Murdock is a partner in the Nashville office of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, where his practice includes business acquisitions and dispositions, commercial lending, and commercial law generally. He is a member of the Commercial Financial Services Committee of the ABA Business Law Section and formerly served as chair of its Lender Liability Subcommittee. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers.
Thomas M. Kim is senior managing director in the Denver office of r2 Advisors LLC, a corporate renewal and restructuring firm focusing on lower middle market companies facing financial or operational distress. Earlier in his career, Mr. Kim was an originator and asset manager with Republic Financial Corporation, a private investment company, and an attorney with LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae LLP. He serves on the board of the Turnaround Management Association and is a member of its executive committee.
Roger G. Jones is a partner in the Nashville office of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, where his practice includes bankruptcy and insolvency, workouts, acquisition and disposition of distressed businesses, and commercial finance. He is the coauthor of Norton Creditor’s Rights Handbook, published by West. Before entering private practice, he served as a judicial clerk for Judge Thomas Millburn of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
(Original program date: May 11 & 12, 2010)
