Lender & Stakeholder Advisory

“Covenant breach.” Those two words keep lenders, bondholders, and investors up at night. Tenuous situations require expertise and experience—steady hands to understand unique business plans, complex operational challenges, restructuring strategies, and optimization and implementation needs.

Our team of veterans have seen it all and are here to help. We’ve preserved and unlocked value while maximizing the monetization of distressed assets across a wide array of sectors. With years of expertise managing liquidity, capital structure Issues, and operational and financial restructuring, we drive resolutions for companies and their stakeholders.

PAIN POINT

Incomplete picture of your situation and available options.

What Accordion brings:

Evaluate cash flow for debt coverage.

Determine if a company is generating sufficient cash flow to service their debt obligations.

Explore debt restructuring options.

Provide a view of all debt restructuring alternatives available.

Identify capital structure improvement opportunities.

Identify opportunities for capital structure improvement.

Review liquidity & cash conversion strategies.

Review of short-term liquidity projections and analysis of cash conservation efforts and controls.

Assess business plan.

Assess business plan feasibility from an operational and financial perspective.

PAIN POINT

Facing an active or potential covenant breach.

What Accordion brings:

Conduct root cause & financial health analyses.

Evaluate the cause of the issue, the business plan, and current financial situation.

Assess stakeholder roles.

Assess various stakeholder positions and who should contribute towards stabilization.

Review operations.

Evaluate operations and the current business plan.

PAIN POINT

Lack of clarity about your long-term prospects.

What Accordion brings:

Leverage deep experise.

Apply our Turnaround & Restructuring expertise to the subject business.

Maximize stakeholder recovery.

Choose the right path that maximizes stakeholder recovery —even if it's hard.

Turn restructuring into transformation.

Transition restructuring strategies into transformation or recovery plans.

CLIENT STORY

Providing financial and M&A advisory in the sale and partial wind-down of a salon operator

You’re an operator of approximately 90 hair salons. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, your company suffers ongoing operating losses and you’ve largely exhausted your remaining capital resources. You need help selling your remaining salons and orchestrating an orderly wind-down of the business.

CLIENT STORY

CRO & restructuring advisory in a franchisees sell-back to a leading fitness franchisor

You’re a franchisee of 15 flagship, large-format group fitness locations in major metropolitan areas. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, you’re burning cash and incurring additional indebtedness to support operations. You need a deep diagnostic and advice on your options.

We consistently create value for the world’s most sophisticated private equity firms and their portfolio companies.

We consistently create value for the world’s most sophisticated private equity firms and their portfolio companies.

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of our experts.

Andrew Hede

President, Business Transformation & Transactions

Andrew is our President of Business Transformation & Transactions. He has 30 years of financial and operational transformation and restructuring experience in both the United States and Australia, advising clients in numerous formal and out-of-court restructurings.

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Keith Maib

Senior Managing Director

Keith is a Senior Managing Director in Accordion’s Turnaround and Restructuring practice. He has been with Accordion and Mackinac Partners, which Accordion acquired in 2021, for 18 years. Keith has over 40 years of diversified business experience. In addition to serving as a partner in two international accounting firms, Keith has extensive experience in leading companies through periods of pervasive change and turmoil and is...

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Melissa Kibler

Senior Managing Director

Melissa is a Senior Managing Director with over 30 years of experience providing financial advisory, restructuring, and turnaround management services to Fortune 500 and mid-sized companies and their stakeholders. She also has extensive investigative, litigation, and valuation experience, including insolvency-related litigation, avoidance actions, fraud investigations, merger and acquisition disputes, director and officer claims, and other...

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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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Rupesh Shah

Senior Managing Director

Rupesh is a Senior Managing Director with three decades of strategic operational advisory, corporate financial and business transformation experience with clients ranging from small startups to large multinational companies. Rupesh specializes in the providing strategic and tactical leadership to both growth and underperforming companies.

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Kasey Rosado

Senior Managing Director

Kasey Rosado is a Senior Managing Director based in New York, with over 25 years of financial, operational, and leadership experience specializing in financial restructurings and operational turnarounds, including advising under-performing and distressed companies. Kasey has assisted companies, lenders, and financial sponsors in addressing complex financial and operational matters. She has worked on domestic and international engagements...

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Ready to get stuff done? Let’s talk.

We consistently create value for the world’s most sophisticated private equity firms and their portfolio companies.

Lender & Stakeholder Advisory

Incomplete picture of your situation and available options.

Facing an active or potential covenant breach.

Lack of clarity about your long-term prospects.

Providing financial and M&A advisory in the sale and partial wind-down of a salon operator​

CRO & restructuring advisory in a franchisees sell-back to a leading fitness franchisor​

Meet a fewof our experts.

Ready to get stuff done? Let’s talk.

Providing financial and M&A advisory in the sale and partial wind-down of a salon operator

CRO & restructuring advisory in a franchisees sell-back to a leading fitness franchisor

Meet a few
of our experts.