"FINANCING
THE MIDDLE MARKET COMPANY"
DATE: Tuesday, September 20th
Please register before Friday, September 16th 2005
Event Flyer > (.pdf)
PLACE:
The Jonathan Club
545 South Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, California
TIME:
| 1:30 – 2:00 |
Registration & Networking |
| 2:00 – 3:00 |
Current Trends in Capital Markets:
Where We Were, Where We Are, and Where
We're Going
| Cameron Breitner |
Centre Partners
Management LLC |
| Matthew Grimes |
Tennenbaum Capital Partners,
LLC |
| E. Stephen Krawchuk |
Wachovia Capital |
| Kimberly Reed |
American Capital Strategies |
|
| BREAK |
COFFEE
BREAK
SPONSORED BY GIULIANI CAPITAL
ADVISORS |
| 3:15 – 4:15 |
Early Warning Signs in a Turnaround:
Signs of Distress & When to Act
| Marc A. Bilbao |
Giuliani
Capital Advisors |
| M. Freddie Reiss |
FTI Consulting, Inc. |
| Steven Varner |
Alvarez & Marsal,
LLC |
| Robbin L. Itkin |
Kirkland & Ellis,
LLP |
|
| BREAK |
COFFEE
BREAK
SPONSORED BY GIULIANI CAPITAL ADVISORS |
| 4:30 – 5:30 |
How Lenders Can Use the Bankruptcy
Code to
Their Advantage:
Tips, Tricks and Strategies
| Joel R. Ohlgren |
Sheppard,
Mullin, Richter
& Hampton LLP |
| Jeffrey N. Pomerantz |
Pachulski Stang. Ziehl
Young
Jones & Weintraub |
| Martin R. Barash |
Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff
& Stern,
LLP |
| Rebecca
J. Winthrop |
Jenkens & Gilchrist, LLP
|
|
| 5:30 – 7:30 |
Cocktail Reception |
COST:
Member Reservations - $125.00 per person
Members at the Door - $140.00 per person
Non-Members Reservations - $150.00 per person
Non-Members at the Door - $165.00 per person
* Includes validated self-parking
The Symposium Qualifies For Continuing Education Credit
3.5 hours of CPE Credit Available
3.0 hours of MCLE Credit Available
Arranged through the AIRA
| SPEAKER
PROFILES |
| Martin
R. Barash |
Mr. Barash is a partner
in Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff
and Stern LLP. Mr. Barash
concentrates his practice
on chapter 11 cases, out-of-court
workouts, bankruptcy litigation and appeals, and
has
represented debtors, debtors in possession, secured
creditors, creditors' committees, and large
creditors
in a variety of industries including
manufacturing,
retail, real estate, and high
technology, including
in the chapter 11 cases of
All Star Gas, Crescent
Jewelers, Dep Corporation,
Iridium, Outsource International, Pacific Gateway
Exchange, and Samuels Jewelers. |
| Marc A. Bilbao |
Mr. Bilbao is a Managing Director
in the Los
Angeles office of Giuliani Capital Advisors
LLC. He
focuses on representing companies, senior
lenders
and creditors in all phases of workouts and
restructuring transactions
including the
development of turnaround business strategies,
debt and equity
restructurings, and M&A
transactions. Mr. Bilbao has had significant
experience in various out-of-court related
restructurings including: M&A
transactions, debt
restructurings, debt for equity swaps, and
partnership
negotiations. |
| Cameron Breitner |
Mr.
Breitner joined Centre Partners in 1998. Prior
thereto, he worked in the
mergers and acquisitions
department at Bowles Hollowell
Conner & Co. He
currently serves on the Board
of Directors of
Garden Fresh Holdings, Inc., BumbleBee
Seafoods
L.P., Firearms Training Systems, Inc., Quickie
Holding, Inc., and Bravo Sports. |
| Matthew Grimes |
Mr. Grimes is a
Director of Tennenbaum Capital
Partners, LLC. Prior to joining TCP, he served as
First Vice President at Congress Financial. As a
Business Development Officer at Congress
Financial, his responsibilities included sourcing
and structuring middle market transactions and
negotiating loan documents. |
| Robbin L. Itkin |
Ms.
Itkin is a partner in Kirkland's rapidly
expanding West Coast
restructuring practice,
resident in its Los Angeles
office. Ms. Itkin
represents debtors, creditors’,
equity and
bondholders’ committees,purchasers
and trustees
in corporate restructurings and bankruptcies
in a
wide variety of industries, including entertainment,
retail, transportation, and hospitality, and advising
high profile individuals and corporations in out-of-
court
workouts and financial transactions. |
| E. Stephen Krawchuk |
Mr. Krawchuk joined
Wachovia in 2003 and
currently oversees business
development efforts
for its Western Region. Prior
to joining Wachovia,
he worked with various institutions
including
Deutsche Bank, NationsBank, and Foothill
Capital.
His corporate finance background includes
asset-
based finance, leveraged lending, venture finance,
bridge and mezzanine finance. |
| Joel R. Ohlgren |
Mr. Ohlgren is
a partner in the Finance and
Bankruptcy Practice
Group in the firm's Los Angeles
and Santa Barbara
offices. Mr. Ohlgren's areas of
practice are bankruptcy,
creditors' rights, complex
bankruptcy litigation,
international insolvency
issues and commercial law.
He has represented
various interests in a wide range
of industries,
including agriculture (growers, packers
and
distributors), building and construction, real
estate,
healthcare, petroleum and energy, shipping
companies, hotel and hospitality, retail, wholesale
and manufacturing businesses. |
| Jeffrey N. Pomerantz |
Mr. Pomerantz's
practice includes representing companies in complex
in and out-of-court financial restructurings. Mr.
Pomerantz has particular expertise in retail restructurings.
Mr. Pomerantz also has an active creditors' committee
practice. Mr. Pomerantz is an active member of the
American Bankruptcy Institute, serving as co-chair
of its annual Southwest Bankruptcy Program. |
| Kimberly
Reed |
Kimberly Reed joined
the Los Angeles office of
American Capital in April, 2002. Previously, she
was responsible for the development, evaluation
and execution of venture capital, growth capital
and LBO investments at Waterview Partners. Ms.
Reed is a graduate of Columbia University. |
| M. Freddie Reiss |
Mr. Reiss is a
senior managing director in FTI's
Corporate Finance/Restructuring
practice and the
national leader of Company-Side
and Interim
Management practice. Mr. Reiss has 25
years of
experience in strategic planning, cash
management,
liquidation analysis, covenant
negotiations, forensic
accounting and valuation.
He specializes in advising
on bankruptcies,
reorganizations and business restructurings
and
in providing expert witness testimony for
underperforming
companies. |
| Steven Varner |
Mr. Varner is a
Managing Director in charge of the
Los Angeles office of Alvarez & Marsal, LLC. With
over 14 years of restructuring experience, Steven
has advised boards of directors, debtors-in-
possession, investors, lenders and creditor
committees in numerous turnaround, restructuring
and reorganization situations. He has provided
business, financial and accounting advice to both
debtors and creditors including formulating and evaluating business plans, turnaround
strategies,
capital structures, and plans of reorganization. |
| Rebecca
J. Winthrop |
Rebecca J. Winthrop.
Ms. Winthrop is a
shareholder and one of the founding members of
Jenkens & Gilchrist's Pasadena Office. She has
over 20 years experience counseling and
representing asset-based lenders and other
financial institutions in complex Chapter 11
bankruptcy cases. Ms. Winthrop also advises and
represents indenture trustees and bondholders in
workouts and bankruptcies involving high-yield
securities, as well as bankruptcy trustees and
unsecured creditors in large Chapter 11 cases. |
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