Year-End Restructuring Market Event: A Preview of 2014 Capital Markets and an Understanding of the Increasing Impact of Private Equity & Hedge Funds on the Restructuring Process

Josh Fried will be a panelist at this Turnaround Management Association meeting that will preview capital markets for 2014, focusing on the impact of private equity and hedge funds on restructuring:

• More frequent out-of-court restructurings and prepackaged & negotiated plans
• Ever increasing presence of 363 sales to effectuate formal restructurings
• Shorter bankruptcies and less tolerance for in-court operational restructurings
• Blur between private equity and hedge funds and the emergence of “Investment Firms”
• Continued crawl of investment firms up the capital stack
• Faster trigger in converting chapter 11s to chapter 7s