K. Brad Hayes
Senior Vice President
Mesirow Financial Consulting, LLC

Chicago, IL
+1 312.595.8519

Corporate Recovery

  • More than 10 years of experience in restructuring and client financial advisory services
  • Experience includes bankruptcy, financial and operational restructurings, due diligence, merger and acquisition advisory, corporate financial reporting, business plans and strategic analyses and litigation support
  • Industry experience includes aerospace and defense, automotive, chemicals, electronics, healthcare, industrial products, information technology, manufacturing and distribution, media and entertainment, metals, printing and publishing and software

Due Diligence

  • Has led numerous due diligence teams in buy- and sell-side transactions for both strategic and financial buyers and sellers
  • Extensive experience advising clients in a transaction setting, including analysis related to quality of earnings, working capital requirements, post-closing working capital disputes, customer and product profitability, unrecorded liabilities, balance sheet and cash flow analysis, capital expenditures, projection and business plan reviews and valuation matters

Operations and Performance Improvement

  • Provides financial advisory services involving business organizations seeking to enhance performance or experiencing significant financial and operating difficulties

Litigation, Investigative and Intelligence Services

  • Provides assistance in support of fraudulent conveyance and other avoidance actions and restructuring-related litigation
Profile
  • Previously served as a manager in the Transaction Services practice and Senior Associate in the Audit practice at KPMG, LLP
  • Certified Public Accountant, Illinois
  • Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor (CIRA)
Accomplishments
  • Contributor to Association of Insolvency & Restructuring Advisor Journal
  • Managed engagement team which earned two 2010 Turnaround Awards from The M&A Advisor in the Distressed M&A Deal of the Year (below $100 million) and the Media, Entertainment or Telecom categories for work on the acquisition of Sun-Times Media Group
Education
  • B.S., Indiana University
  • M.B.A., The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
Affiliations
  • American Bankruptcy Institute, member
  • Turnaround Management Association, member
  • Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors, member
  • Ladder Up, Associate Board of Directors, associate director