Partners

The ABI Partner Program, created in 2004, is a valuable opportunity for companies to market their products and services to decision makers in the bankruptcy field. A variety of sponsorship options and exhibiting forums are available for corporate partners to help increase brand awareness, reach sales goals, and boost business development goals by net working with prospects and existing customers.
 
Financial support from ABI partners allows us to produce exceptional conferences and educational programs, publish award-winning publications and deliver innovative solutions for news and research. 
 
For more information, contact [email protected]
 
ABI is proud to partner with the following organizations:

 

 


Bloomberg Law

Phone: (888) 560-2529
Email: [email protected]
pro.bloomberglaw.com

Bloomberg Law provides comprehensive, reliable guidance to bankruptcy practitioners with integrated news, analysis, case law, dockets, Practical Guidance and renowned Bloomberg business information in one all-encompassing resource. Deep expertise and a commitment to innovation provide practitioners with a competitive edge and help them work faster and more efficiently. Bloomberg Law is the only legal research provider to include continuous enhancements to its platform at no cost to existing subscribers. Bloomberg Law: One Platform. One Price. Continuous Innovation.

 


FTI Consulting, Inc.

555 Twelfth Street NW, Suite 700
Washington, D.C. • 20004
Phone: (202) 312-9100
www.fticonsulting.com
LinkedIn

FTI Consulting, Inc. is a global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations manage change, mitigate risk and resolve disputes: financial, legal, operational, political and regulatory, reputational and transactional. The Corporate Finance and Restructuring Segment consists of more than 1,900 professionals in 64 offices across 23 countries, focusing on the strategic, operational, financial, transactional and capital needs of our clients, which include corporations, boards of directors, investors, private equity sponsors, banks, lenders and other financing sources and creditor groups, as well as other parties-in-interest. We also couple our industry experts with seasoned operators and multidisciplinary professionals, to provide optimal solutions in complex situations.

 


Wilmington Trust Company

Contacts: Steve Cimalore, Vice President
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (302) 636-6058
1100 North Market Street
Wilmington, DE • 19890
www.wilmingtontrust.com/bankruptcy

Wilmington Trust Company has been serving clients for more than a century, providing the strength, resources and credibility to meet the needs of sophisticated enterprises worldwide. We continuously strive to be a leading provider of specialized solutions and services to corporate and institutional enterprises, and we help our clients succeed by effectively focusing on default, high-yield issues, loan agency and restructuring services. In many of the world’s most attractive jurisdictions, we develop customized solutions, pairing technology and staff with world-class local expertise. Wilmington Trust is uniquely positioned as a conflict free service partner, which truly differentiates us from our competitors.

 


agencyIP/Sherwood Partners, Inc.

Contacts: Joshua Pichinson,
Managing Director
Silicon Valley | Los Angeles | New York
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (650) 454-8026
www.agencyip.com
Martin Pichinson, Co-Founder
Silicon Valley | Los Angeles | New York
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (650) 454-8001
www.sherwoodpartners.com

agencyIP, LLC is the premier intellectual property (IP) agency assisting clients to monetize their IP. With our rich database, knowledge, and worldwide relationships, agencyIP has become one of the fastest growing companies in IP monetization. We represent owners, creators, and holders of IP represent in matters associated with patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. We represent individual inventors to Fortune companies.

Sherwood Partners, Inc. Since 1992, Sherwood has built a reputation for high-quality work, excellent communications, and delivering impressive results. We work closely with owners, managers, and boards to create solutions to tough problems, when the tough decisions need to be made. Sherwood acts as corporate advisors in corporate recovery and reorganization, liquidating trust agents, as Assignees in Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors (ABCs), IP sales, licensing, strategy, and loans or purchasing against quality patents. Better Ideas | Proven Solutions.

 


Cozen O’Connor

Contacts: John T. Carroll, III,
Co-Chair, Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (302) 295-2028
Mark E. Felger, Co-Chair, Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (302) 295-2087
Address: 1201 North Market Street, Suite 1001, Wilmington, DE • 19801
Brian Shaw, Member, Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (312) 474-1644
Address: 123 North Wacker Drive, Suite 1800, Chicago, IL • 60606
www.cozen.com
LinkedIn

Cozen O’Connor’s Bankruptcy, Insolvency and Restructuring Practice focuses on domestic and international insolvency, creditors’ rights, bankruptcy, out-of-court restructurings and reorganization. Our lawyers have experience representing parties on all sides of bankruptcy matters, making them quick to anticipate the needs and priorities of divergent constituencies and devise winning strategies. They also serve as mediators in high-level disputes, making them adept at focusing on negotiations and navigating potential obstacles. With more than 825 attorneys in 30 cities, our full-service firm has nationally recognized practices in business law, litigation and government relations, with lawyers experienced in operating in all sectors of the economy.

 


Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP

Contact: John Lucas,
Partner
150 California Street, Floor 15
San Francisco, CA • 94111
Phone: (415) 263-7000
Email: [email protected]
www.pszjlaw.com

Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP (PSZJ) is the nation’s leading corporate restructuring boutique, with offices in Los Angeles, New York, Wilmington (DE), Houston, and San Francisco. PSZJ attorneys are experienced in representing all major constituencies in bankruptcy proceedings and out-of-court workouts, including debtors, committees, trustees, bondholders, asset-purchasers, and third-party plan proponents. PSZJ also handles sophisticated business litigation and transactional matters as part of its renowned practice. PSZJ is perennially named as a “Best Law Firm” for bankruptcy by U.S. News & World Report, as well as a Bankruptcy and Restructuring “Practice Group of the Year” by Law360.

 


Polsinelli

Contact: Christopher Ward,
Chair, Bankruptcy & Restructuring
222 Delaware Avenue, Suite 1101
Wilmington, DE • 19801
Phone: (302) 252-0922
[email protected]
www.polsinelli.com

Polsinelli is an AmLaw 100 law firm with over 1,000 lawyers, 22 offices, and (1) a national footprint, (2) top ranked corporate restructuring and health care practices, and (3) a mid-market rate structure with a collaborative and entrepreneurial culture. Polsinelli has represented numerous chapter 11 debtors, distressed borrowers, official committees, individual creditors, and bankruptcy litigants in both restructuring matters and their non-bankruptcy alternatives, including ABCs and business divorce litigation. Polsinelli’s representative engagements include serving as lead counsel to the chapter 11 debtors in Esco/Shoe City, Edgemere, Ector County Energy Center, Balance Point/MECTA Corporation, Hillside Village Keene, Senior Care Centers, Virtual Citadel, Lucky’s Market, Bayou Steel Group, Elements Behavioral Health, Inc., Orchids Paper Products Company, PhaseRx, Inc., The Original Soupman and ActiveCare, Inc. Polsinelli also hosts The Devil’s Dictionary of Bankruptcy Terms, the popular interactive webpage (devilsdictionary. polsinelli.com) that serves as a reference tool for all bankruptcy professionals and produces the widely cited Polsinelli BK Troller Indices.

 

 


AlixPartners

Contact: Jonathan Lurie,
Business Marketing Director
909 Third Avenue, 30th Floor
New York, NY • 10022
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (212) 490-2500
www.alixpartners.com
LinkedIn

AlixPartners is a results-driven global consulting firm that specializes in helping businesses respond quickly and decisively to their most critical challenges — from urgent performance improvement to complex restructuring, from risk-mitigation to accelerated transformation. These are the moments when everything is on the line — a sudden shift in the market, an unexpected performance decline, a time-sensitive deal or a fork-in-the-road decision. 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. 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.

 


ASK LLP

Contact: Edward Neiger,
Co-Managing Partner
60 East 42nd Street, 46th Floor
New York, NY • 10165
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (212) 267-7342

Contact: Joseph Steinfeld,
Co-Managing Partner
2600 Eagan Woods Drive, Suite 400
St. Paul, MN • 55121

Email: [email protected]
Phone: (651) 406-9665
www.askllp.com

ASK LLP is the nation’s foremost bankruptcy/mass tort law firm specializing in the litigation and recovery of preferences, mass tort and sexual abuse claims. We also represent major creditors both individually and on unsecured creditors’ committees, as well as provide post-confirmation efficiency counsel services. We offer contingent, blended, and capped hourly fees so our clients (who have already suffered losses) do not bear the additional burden of high legal fees. ASK represents clients in many of the most complex bankruptcy, mass tort and sexual abuse cases, and has recovered assets worth billions of dollars for our clients.

 


Axos Global Fiduciary Banking

Contact: Marchand Boyd,
Head of Global Fiduciary Banking and Services
Email: [email protected] 
Phone: (844) 778-7793
www.axosbank.com/GFB

Axos Global Fiduciary Banking offers a complete suite of banking solutions to fit the needs of domestic and international fiduciary professionals. From expedited account openings to easy account management, our dedicated, responsive team is invested in your success. Axos is an approved depository in every UST bankruptcy district. Axos is also well-versed with DIP depository needs, liquidating trusts, bankruptcy trusts, escrows and other fiduciary matters. Born digital on July 4, 2000, Axos Bank reinvented the banking model. Headquartered in San Diego with commercial resources across the country, Axos Bank is an FDIC-insured bank, and its holding company, Axos Financial, is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “AX.”

 


B. Riley Advisory Services

Contact: Wayne P. Weitz,
Sr. Managing Director
3445 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 1225
Atlanta, GA • 30326
Phone: (212) 457-3308
www.brileyfin.com

B. Riley Advisory Services works with lenders, law firms, private equity sponsors and companies of all types. Our Advisory Services are a unique mix of restructuring and turnaround management; valuation and appraisal services, including asset-based lending (ABL) valuations; forensic accounting and litigation support; operations management; compliance, risk and resilience services; and transaction support services, including due diligence and quality of earnings reviews. B. Riley Advisory Services is the trade name for GlassRatner Advisory & Capital Group, LLC, Great American Group Advisory & Valuation Services, LLC, Great American Group Machinery & Equipment, LLC and Great American Group Intellectual Property, LLC.

 


BakerHostetler

Contact: Elizabeth A. Green
Email: [email protected]
Photo: (407) 649-4036‬
200 South Orange Avenue, Suite 2300
Orlando, FL • 32801
www.bakerlaw.com

BakerHostetler offers creative solutions while staying attuned to cost sensitivities. Our focus covers the full spectrum of issues that arise in distressed situations in large and middle-market commercial bankruptcy cases. We will help with your business workouts, complex reorganizations and bankruptcy needs. We are backed by attorneys nationwide who specialize in such areas such as litigation, health care, tax and employment. You can count on us for complex insolvency cases, both nationally and globally, as we have done as court-appointed counsel to Irving H. Picard, SIPA trustee, for the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC.

 


Blank Rome LLP

Contact: Ira L. Herman,
Partner, Bankruptcy and Restructuring
Email: [email protected]
1271 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY • 10020
Phone: (212) 885-5052
www.blankrome.com

Blank Rome LLP’s nationally recognized and Chambers-ranked Finance, Restructuring, and Bankruptcy group includes more than 80 attorneys who advise clients on all areas of commercial finance, debt restructurings, and bankruptcy. The group counsels financial institutions; funded debt holders; official and ad hoc committees; buyers and sellers of distressed assets. It also counsels fiduciaries including indenture trustees and liquidating trustees, assignees, receivers, and foreign representatives in cross-border insolvency cases; and other significant stakeholders in bankruptcy and insolvency processes. Members of the group have served as mediators and arbitrators, employing their knowledge and skills as neutrals.

 


The Brattle Group

One Beacon Street, Suite 2600
Boston, MA • 02108
Phone: (617) 864-7900
LinkedIn
Twitter
www.brattle.com

The Brattle Group answers complex economic, regulatory, and financial questions for corporations, law firms, and governments around the world. We aim for the highest level of client service and quality in our industry.We are distinguished by our credibility and the clarity of our insights, which arise from the stature of our experts; affiliations with leading international academics and industry specialists; and thoughtful, timely, and transparent work. Our clients value our commitment to providing clear, independent results that withstand critical review.Brattle has 500 talented professionals across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.

 


CR3 Partners, LLC

Contact: William Snyder
13355 Noel Drive, Suite 2005
Dallas, TX • 75240
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (214) 415-7167
www.cr3partners.com

CR3 Partners is a national turnaround and performance improvement firm serving organizations and stakeholders across a broad range of industries during times of transition, opportunity or distress. Our team consists of seasoned executives and industry veterans who bring a profound bias for action and exceptional results, with a keen focus on turnaround management, restructuring and operational improvement services. From our offices in Atlanta; Boston; Charlotte, N.C.; Chicago; Dallas; Houston; Los Angeles; New York; and Richmond, Va., CR3 Partners infuses agility, passion, experience and value-creation into everything we do. To discover how we can transform the future of your business, please contact us.

 


Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Contact: Paul H. Zumbro,
Partner and Head, Financial Restructuring and Reorganization Practice
825 Eighth Ave.
New York, NY • 10019
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (212) 474-1036
www.cravath.com

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP has been active in restructuring since its early days and continues to represent clients in some of the largest, most complex and most high-profile restructurings. The firm has substantial experience across the full suite of restructuring, reorganization and bankruptcy matters, including debtor- and creditor-side engagements, debtor-in-possession and exit financing, liability management transactions, distressed M&A and bankruptcy litigation. Clients benefit from Cravath’s role as a strategic partner when faced with issues triggered by financial distress or insolvency, receiving complete representation from its restructuring specialists and premier finance, M&A, litigation and board advisory teams.

 


Delaware Trust, a CSC Company

Contact: Steve Giurlando,
Head of Business Development
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (302) 485-1057
www.cscgfm.com
251 Little Falls Drive
Wilmington, DE • 19808

We are the business behind business®. Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, CSC and our wholly owned subsidiary, Delaware Trust, a fully regulated institution, are leading providers of corporate trust and agency services. CSC supports alternative-asset managers, capital-markets participants, merger and acquisition professionals, corporate and institutional borrowers, debt-issuers, restructuring professionals, and lenders and bondholders. Our expert team is comprised of lawyers, corporate trust administrators and financial professionals who not only understand Delaware’s business-friendly court system, but also operate on a global scale capable of transacting wherever our clients are.

 


Deloitte Turnaround & Restructuring

Contact: Ryan Maupin,
Managing Director and National Leader
Email: [email protected]
www.deloitte.com/us/tandr

Deloitte’s Turnaround & Restructuring (Deloitte T&R) practice is a leader in helping organizations transform disruption or transition, financial difficulties, or crisis into opportunities for resilience. Having worked with both large multinational organizations and mid-market companies, we apply our deep experience and foresight to help our clients, their creditors and other stakeholders achieve successful outcomes. Whether the goal is to enhance the performance of a company or guide stakeholders through complex turnaround or bankruptcy reorganization, our team works closely with the client to quickly understand their business and their most urgent issues.

 


Development Specialists, Inc.

10 LaSalle Street, Suite 3300
Chicago, IL • 60603
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (312) 263-4141
www.dsiconsulting.com

Development Specialists, Inc. (DSI) is one of the leading providers of management consulting and financial advisory services, including turnaround consulting, financial restructuring, litigation support, fiduciary services and forensic accounting. Our clients include business owners, private-equity investors, corporate boards, financial institutions, secured lenders, bondholders and unsecured creditors. For 45 years, DSI has been guided by a single objective: maximizing value for all stakeholders. With our highly skilled and diverse team of professionals, offices in the U.S. and international affiliates, and an unparalleled range of experience, DSI has built a solid reputation as an industry leader.

 


Getzler Henrich & Associates LLC, a Hilco Global Company

Contact: William H. Henrich,
Co-Chairman
295 Madison Avenue, 20th Floor
New York, NY • 10017
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (212) 697-2400
(212) 540-4480

Getzler Henrich & Associates LLC, a Hilco Global Company is one of the nation’s oldest and most respected names in middle-market corporate restructurings and operations improvement and has successfully worked with thousands of companies to achieve growth and profitability. Working with a wide range of companies, including publicly held firms, private corporations, and family-owned businesses, Getzler Henrich’s expertise spans more than 50 industry sectors, from “new economy” technology and service firms to “old economy” manufacturing and distribution businesses. For more information on Getzler Henrich’s expertise, please visit getzlerhenrich.com.

 


Gray Reed

Contact: Jason Brookner,
Corporate Restructuring and
Bankruptcy Department Chair
Email: [email protected]
1601 Elm Street, Suite 4600, Dallas, Texas • 75201

Phone: (469) 320-6132
www.grayreed.com
LinkedIn

Gray Reed’s Corporate Restructuring and Bankruptcy Practice Group assists clients in pursuing efficient, innovative and sophisticated solutions in distressed financial situations. Our attorneys have significant experience representing troubled companies, trustees, secured and unsecured creditors, official and ad hoc committees, equity holders, owners, managers and other constituents in financial distress, workout, turnaround, restructuring, planning and bankruptcy scenarios — both in and out of court. A full-service law firm with offices in Dallas, Houston and Waco, Gray Reed has 150 attorneys who assist clients with myriad legal issues beyond corporate restructuring and bankruptcy, including commercial litigation, corporate transactions, oil and gas, tax planning and litigation, real estate, construction, health care, insurance, employment law, intellectual property, trusts and estates, and family law.

 


Hilco Global Company

Contact: Gary C. Epstein,
EVP – Chief Marketing Officer | Hilco Global
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (847) 418-2712
www.hilcoglobal.com
LinkedIn

Hilco Global is a privately held diversified financial services company and the world’s preeminent authority on maximizing the value of assets for both healthy and distressed companies. Its financial services leverage a unique blend of deep restructuring and advisory experience with capital solutions and principal investing. Hilco Global operates as a holding company comprised of more than 20 specialized business units and delivers customized solutions to undervalued, high-potential companies to resolve complex and stressed situations and enhance long-term enterprise value. Based in Northbrook, Ill., Hilco Global operates on five continents and has large offices located in Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and throughout the U.S.

 


KCC LLC

Contact: Alby Kass
Email: [email protected]
222 N. Pacific Coast Highway, 3rd Floor
El Segundo, CA • 90245
Phone: (310) 367-2313
www.kccllc.com 
LinkedIn

KCC LLC is a leading claims and noticing agent providing administrative support services and consulting to companies undergoing corporate restructurings. KCC has set the standard for claims administration services, with innovative technologies and the most experienced staff in the market offering in-depth expertise and highly responsive client service. KCC provides claims administration, noticing, public securities services, strategic communications, document production, balloting and tabulation, disbursement services, and a suite of e-services on digital capital platforms. Additionally, KCC has integrated automated chapter 11 depository services, receivership, and chapter 7 and subchapter V solutions and software in our continually expanding suite of services. 

 


Reid Collins & Tsai LLP

Contact: Eric Madden,
Partner
Email: [email protected]
1601 Elm Street, Suite 4200
Dallas, TX • 75201
Phone: (214) 420-8901
www.reidcollins.com

Reid Collins & Tsai LLP is a nationally recognized trial boutique firm that prosecutes high-stakes commercial and bankruptcy-related litigation on a success-fee basis. The firm is unique in several respects, including (1) its expertise with high-profile cases involving large-scale financial fraud; (2) its expertise in pursuing claims against officers, directors, accountants, lawyers and banks relating to the underlying fraud; and (3) its willingness to pursue those claims on a success-fee basis. Reid Collins has earned many professional accolades, such as being named a “Top 10 Plaintiffs Firm in America” by Benchmark Litigation and as “Elite Trial Lawyers” for bankruptcy and commercial litigation by The National Law Journal.

 


SC&H Capital

Contact: Ken Mann, Managing Director
Email: [email protected]
6011 University Blvd., Suite 490
Ellicott City, MD • 21043
Phone: (443) 951-4834
www.schcapital.com

SC&H Capital is a national investment bank specializing in sell-side M&A for companies with revenues ranging from $20 - $400 million. Its 35-year-old special situations team has preserved an estimated 65,000 jobs in more than six hundred M&A and financing transactions, including more than three hundred §363 sales in seventy-two districts. Other services include business valuations, M&A and ESOPs for healthy companies. SC&H Capital serves numerous industries including manufacturing, construction, agribusiness, technology, healthcare, and food & bever­age and is recognized for delivering tailored solutions to achieve true strategic value.

 


Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Contact: Paul Leake
Email: [email protected]
1 Manhattan West
New York, NY • 10001
Phone: (212) 735-3260
www.skadden.com

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP’s Corporate Restructuring Group has consistently been recognized as one of the top restructuring practices in the world. We provide innovative solutions to clients involved in distressed company situations, allowing clients to enhance value, minimize costs and properly position themselves for the future. This past year, Skadden welcomed Hon. Robert D. Drain (Ret.) to its Corporate Restructuring Practice. Skadden has recently served as company counsel for Endo International plc and Armstrong Flooring, Inc., purchaser counsel in SVB Financial Group, lender counsel in Diamond Sports Group and Voyager Aviation Holdings, LLC, and equity committee counsel to Core Scientific, Inc.

 

 


Squire Patton Boggs

Contact: Stephen Lerner, Partner and Global Chair Restructuring and Insolvency Practice
Email: [email protected]
201 E. Fourth St., Suite 1900
Cincinnati, OH • 45202
Phone: (513) 361-1220
www.squirepattonboggs.com

Squire Patton Boggs is a full-service global law firm specializing in providing insights at the point where law, business and government meet. We have one of the largest, most experienced and respected global restructuring practices, with more than 80 lawyers in 30 offices in 13 countries collaborating on domestic and cross-border restructuring matters. Our seasoned team is expert in all facets of global restructuring and insolvency engagements, including, among others, U.S. chapter 11 reorganizations, chapter 15 cross-border insolvencies, chapter 9 municipal restructurings, U.K., AU and EU insolvency proceedings, receiverships, administrations and liquidations, and global voluntary arrangements, out-of-court restructurings and related contentious work.


Stretto

Contact: Cristina Terrasini,
Vice President
Marketing 410 Exchange, Suite 100,
Irvine, CA • 92602
Email: [email protected]
www.stretto.com

Stretto delivers a full spectrum of case-management services, depository solutions, loan-modification services and technology tools to fiduciaries and legal professionals. Offering a comprehensive suite of corporate-restructuring, consumer bankruptcy, and debt resolution capabilities, along with multifaceted deposit and disbursement services, Stretto provides an unparalleled portfolio of solutions under the executive leadership of industry veterans Eric Kurtzman and Jonathan Carson. Sitting at the center of the bankruptcy ecosystem, Stretto leverages deep industry expertise and market insights to facilitate every aspect of case and cash management for its corporate-restructuring and consumer bankruptcy clients, as well as fiduciaries and other industry professionals.