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Contingency Planning & Bankruptcy Advisory

Turnaround & restructuring situations need a plan, a backup plan, and a Plan B for your Plan B. You need to get this planning right, be ready to deliver filings and required materials, and simultaneously prepare yourself for the what-ifs.

Our experts handle the bankruptcy details: motions, declarations, petitions, and other filings. And beyond that, we build a well-thought-out contingency plan to maximize value— including re-organization, auction and sale support, and retention plans. It’s not easy to plan for multiple scenarios. But we don’t tackle the “easy.” We tackle the right thing for your business.
PAIN POINT

Lacking experience to lead you through bankruptcy.

What Accordion brings:
Complete initial court filings & motions.
Complete first-day motions, declarations, petitions, and related filings.
Manage court & trustee communications.
Manage court/US Trustee reporting and meetings: initial debtor interview, §341 meeting, SOFAs & Schedules, Monthly Operating Reports, Post-Confirmation Reports, and more.
Coordinate lease & contract decisions.
Coordinate lease and executory contract assumption/rejection.
Oversee financial planning & negotations.
Plan for DIP/cash collateral budgets, reporting and negotiations.
Prepare statements.
Prepare Disclosure Statement (including liquidation analysis, projections, claims, and more).
PAIN POINT

Need a “Plan B” to preserve value for all stakeholders.

What Accordion brings:
Proactively manage business transformations.
Proactively manage significant business change, rather than reactively trying to make the best of a new situation.
Conduct claims analysis.
Run claims analysis and management.
Protect shareholder value.
Recover and protect shareholder value and protect jobs.
Secure capital.
Raise fresh equity for growth.
Guide strategic recovery.
Deliver a rescue or a controlled exit that could not otherwise be achieved.
PAIN POINT

Lacking know-how/bandwidth for exit.

What Accordion brings:
Facilitate a smooth exit.
Complete exit financing sizing and negotiation.
Maximize value through auction & sale support.
Provide §363 auction and sale support.
Craft incentive plans to retain key talent.
Formulate KEIP/KERP plan development.
We consistently create value for the world’s most sophisticated private equity firms and their portfolio companies.
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We consistently create value for the world’s most sophisticated private equity firms and their portfolio companies.
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Meet a few
of our experts.

Melissa Kibler
Melissa Kibler
Senior Managing Director

Melissa has over 35 years of experience providing financial advisory, restructuring and turnaround services to Fortune 500 and mid-sized companies and their stakeholders. She also heads the Litigation Advisory & Testimony practice area at Accordion and has extensive investigative, litigation and valuation experience, including insolvency-related litigation, avoidance actions, fraud investigations, M&A disputes, director and officer...

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Will Holden
Will Holden
Managing Director

Will has held senior finance, operational and strategic positions for private and public companies of all sizes and across all stages of the business cycle from early-stage high-growth businesses to mature global conglomerates. His 25+ years of experience has focused on working with companies facing critical financial, operational and strategic challenges and leading complex solution focused initiatives which include...

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John Bittner
John Bittner
Senior Managing Director

John is a Senior Managing Director with over 30 years of strategic, financial and operational restructuring advisory experience. He has served as a lead restructuring advisor, interim CEO, CFO, CRO and CTO for companies in transition, as well as representing creditor groups and other stakeholder groups in out-of-court restructurings, Chapter 11 proceedings, disputes, operational improvement projects, and both acquisition and divestiture...

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Matthew Pascucci
Matthew Pascucci
Senior Managing Director

Matt is a Senior Managing Director with more than 20 years of experience providing financial advisory, restructuring, and turnaround services to large and middle market companies and their stakeholders. Matt’s practice has primarily focused on assisting companies stabilize operations, improve performance, and explore strategic alternatives. He also has significant experience assisting clients with acquisition due diligence for...

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