Distressed Investing Summit 2021 | The M&A Advisor | 29 September 2021 | The New York Athletic Club, 180 Central Park S, New York, NY 10019, United States

The 2021 Distressed Investing Summit featuring the 15th Annual Turnaround Awards is right around the corner. This year in midtown Manhattan, the Summit will be held at the New York Athletic Club, welcoming the best and brightest turnaround and deal community members back to exclusive in-person socializing!

Now in its 15th year, the Summit assembles the most active restructuring dealmakers, distressed asset investors, bankruptcy judges, advisors, consultants, and other key market experts – academics, media, government, and political influencers - and celebrates the leading distressed M&A, restructuring, and refinancing transactions, product & services, firms, and professionals.
The Summit facilitates dialogue and maximizes exposure to insights and new business development opportunities via several exclusive gatherings and discussions, including M&A Connects One-on-One Meetings, M&A Direct Networking, Thought-Leadership Discussion Sessions, formal Gala receptions, and the presentation of the 15th Annual Turnaround Awards, honoring the accomplishments of the top distressed investing, restructuring and turnaround practitioners, and firms.

Dynamic Topics:
The Interactive Forum features an interactive roundtable format for delegates to participate with their peers - investors, advisors, adjudicators, media, and academics, in meaningful dialogue about the key challenges and opportunities in our distressed investing and restructuring.
• An Economist’s Perspective: What Government Stimulus Money Has Done to the Distressed Investing Market
• Stalwarts Panel: The State of the Restructuring Industry Today & Beyond
• Distressed Hedge Funds – Emerging from a Global Pandemic and Beyond
• Is it Better to Just Walk Away? Determining If It Is Too Late for a Distressed Company to Turnaround
• Bringing Certainty to Distressed Deal Outcomes by Leveraging Insurance Capital
• Overcoming a Stalled Restructuring
• Panel Discussion: Diving-In to Industries Primed for Restructuring
• Distressed Liability Management Transactions: Examining Recent and Upcoming Trends
• The Future of Work: How the Global Pandemic Has Forever Shifted the Way We Work & Close Deals

2021 Speakers

Derek Reisfield
Former Chairman & Co-Founder, Marketwatch

Mark Kronfeld
Managing Director, Province

David M. Feldman
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Bassem Mansour
Co-CEO, Resilience Capital Partners

Bill West
Managing Director, Newpoint Advisors Corporation tbc

Ken Yager
President, Newpoint Advisors Corporation

Cynthia Romano
Global Director, Restructuring and Dispute Resolution Practice, CohnReznick LLP

Henry Owsley
Gordian Group

Christopher Sontchi
United States Bankruptcy Court

John Sherwood
U S Bankruptcy Judge, District of New Jersey

Kefvin Carey |
Partner, Hogan Lovells US LLP

Dan T. Moss
Partner, Jones Day

Steve Spitzer
Managing Director, AlixPartners LLP

Leanne Gould |
Principal, GOULD Consulting Services

Pat Reinhardt
Managing Director, G2 Capital Advisors LLC

Andrew Troop
Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Carrianne Basler
Managing Director, AlixPartners LLP

PANELISTS:

Amy Alcoke
Quackenboss, American Bankruptcy Institute

Bill Brandt
Development Specialists, Inc. (DSI)

Brian Davies
Capstone Partners

Cheryl Carner
SLR Credit Solutions

Kathleen Lauster
DLA Capital Advisors

Kent Percy
AlixPartners LLP

Layne D. Grindal
Seabury Securities