Sheon Karol
Managing Director, Mesirow Financial Consulting, LLC
666 Third Ave., 21st Floor, New York, NY 10017  |  212.808.8354  | 

Corporate Recovery

  • Vast professional experience including extensive reorganization and turnaround responsibilities
  • Applies multi-disciplined approach with respect to turnaround, management and legal expertise across various disciplines
  • Develops and implements statistical methodology and analysis of preference actions
  • Advised companies and debtors in numerous engagements, including Impath, Inc. and Farmland Industries, Inc.
Interim Management

  • Serves in an interim management role, with expertise in retail, real estate and food industries
  • Manages multi-division distressed companies through restructuring process
  • Expertise in M&A, wind-downs, corporate governance issues and preference actions
Profile
  • Played an integral role in the engagement team which earned the Turnaround Management Association 2007 Turnaround of the Year Award for Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc., including the management of the sale of assets in excess of $200 million and the disposition of 326 stores in a 90-day period and serving as acting Head of the Winn-Dixie Real Estate Department
  • Served as senior vice president – general counsel and secretary of Lechters, Inc.
  • Prior to his corporate experience, specialized in general corporate, securities and banking law, including mergers and acquisitions, private placements, securities law, financings representing both lenders and borrowers, and corporate and bank representation and negotiations in restructuring matters
Accomplishments
  • Frequent panelist at American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) events
  • Speaker at US Shopping Center Law Conference (ICSC) on "Use of Auctions as a Value Enhancing Business Strategy"
Education
  • B.A., Yeshiva College
  • J.D., Yale Law School
Affiliations
  • Turnaround Management Association, member
  • American Bankruptcy Institute, member