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Paul D. Leake is a partner at Jones Day and head of the Business Restructuring and Reorganization Practice. He has over 25 years’ experience representing all major constituencies in restructurings and focuses on U.S. and transnational business reorganizations. Leake has published and lectured extensively on U.S. and transnational insolvency matters. He can be reached at […]

Kelly Beaudin Stapleton is a managing director with Alvarez & Marsal in New York. The national practice leader for the Unsecured Creditors’ Committee Practice, she specializes in creditor representations, fiduciary roles, and fraud investigations across various industries. Stapleton began as a prosecutor and later worked for a large national law firm before being appointed U.S. […]

Mark N. Parry is a partner in the Business Reorganization, Bankruptcy, and Creditors’ Rights practice group of Moses & Singer LLP. The views expressed in this article are his alone.

David W. Prager is a managing director at Goldin Associates, a boutique financial consulting firm specializing in restructuring advisory and interim management, litigation support and investigation, independent monitoring, and investment fund services. Prager leads Goldin’s Energy Practice and can be reached at dprager@goldinassociates.com.

Rob Vanderbeek is a managing director at Goldin Associates. He has significant experience in the energy space and can be reached at rvanderbeek@goldinassociates.com.

Margaret Bogenrief is a partner with ACM Partners, a boutique advisory firm focused on providing crisis management, turnaround, restructuring, and performance improvement services to middle-market businesses. She holds an MBA and master’s degree in public policy from the University of Chicago and has been featured as an expert on the topics of  turnaround and restructuring […]

Matt LoCascio is a managing director with Heritage Equity Partners, a boutique investment banking firm that provides comprehensive solutions to financially troubled companies. LoCascio has been with the firm since 2005 and has completed over 100 client engagements, including 10 in the food and beverage sector, involving restructuring and sale transactions, in and out of […]

Joseph H. Huston Jr. is co-chair of Stevens & Lee, P.C.’s Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Group. He is resident in the firm’s Wilmington, Delaware, office. He has represented virtually every type of constituency in the reorganization process and related litigation, focusing particularly on official and ad hoc committees of creditors and interest holders. Huston can […]

Lauren Murphy, a vice president in the Retail Finance Division of Wells Fargo Capital Finance, is responsible for managing a portfolio of senior secured financing for middle market and large corporate retailers across the United States. Prior to joining Wells Fargo in 2010, she worked as an asset-based field examiner focusing on small and middle […]

Irene Rosen Marks, a managing director for Wells Fargo’s Retail Finance team, leads the originations effort for all asset-based transactions with retailers in the United States and Canada. In her nearly two decades of focus on the retail industry, she has worked with clients in all sectors of the retail industry and has had experience […]