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Bradley Gardner is an associate in Polsinelli’s Kansas City office, where his areas of focus are loan enforcement and creditors’ rights. He has worked for clients in a variety of industries, including finance, transportation, and manufacturing, and has represented clients in prelitigation negotiations, trials, appeals, and bankruptcy matters. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the […]

Tony Groom is chief executive of K2 Business Partners, a firm of turnaround and transformation specialists in London. He has spent 25 years investing in and managing companies that need fundamental change and a completely new business model. A founder director and past president of TMA UK, Groom is a Fellow of the European Association […]

Patrick C. Lagrange is president of Pelagic Strategic Partners LLC, the management company of Continental Shelf Investment Capital Corp., a firm that invests in subsea and marine science and technology companies that primarily serve the oil and gas and telecommunications industries (conshelf.com). Lagrange is also a past chairman of TMA Global.

Lee E. Buchwald is founder and president of Buchwald Capital Advisors LLC, an investment banking firm in New York City specializing in financial reorganizations. A 30-year-plus veteran investment banker, he provides financial advisory, trustee, independent director, and expert testimony services. Prior to founding the firm in 2001, Buchwald had been an executive at Rothschild Inc., […]

Patrick D. Pilch is a senior managing director in the Turnaround & Restructuring group at Ankura. Based in New York City, he provides strategic and financial advisory in the healthcare industry. Pilch has more than 30 years of experience in performance improvement, healthcare turnarounds, strategic planning, corporate finance, M&A, creditor relations, physician relations, governance, and […]

Brad Coulter is a Certified Turnaround Professional with more than 15 years of experience working with financially troubled organizations. He is the first private-sector turnaround consultant named as an emergency manager in Michigan and acted in that position for the City of Lincoln Park from July 2014 to December 2015. Coulter is currently the full-time president […]

Dr. David Friend is a co-founder and the chief transformation officer of BDO’s Center for Healthcare Excellence & Innovation. He has more than 35 years of global healthcare experience, having served as an operating executive, board director, and advisor. Previously, Friend was chief clinical officer of Golden Living, a post-acute healthcare provider, where he was […]

Dion Oglesby is a managing director in the Bankruptcy and Restructuring Group of EisnerAmper LLP.  He has extensive experience in restructuring and operations and has worked in a wide variety of industries, including healthcare. Among the healthcare matters he has been involved with are KidsPeace Corporation and 710 Long Ridge Road Operating Company. Oglesby holds […]

Robert Hauptman, CFA, ASA, is a director at Stout Risius Ross. He provides valuation and financial advisory services to for-profit and non-profit healthcare businesses for acquisitions and divestitures, fairness and solvency opinions, purchase price allocations, joint venture formations, regulatory compliance, and other corporate, tax, and litigation-related matters. Hauptman’s experience includes working with hospitals and health […]

Edward M. Wolkowitz is a partner at Levene, Neale, Bender, Yoo & Brill in Los Angeles. A bankruptcy attorney, trustee, and receiver for more than 30 years, he was managing principal of Robinson, Diamant & Wolkowitz before its merger with Levene Neale. Wolkowitz holds a law degree, cum laude, from Southwestern Law School, where he […]