Melissa Kibler Knoll Senior Managing Director, Mesirow Financial Consulting,LLC
353 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL 60654  |  312.595.8500  |

Corporate Recovery

• Provides financial advisory services to companies, unsecured creditors, secured lenders and other parties in restructurings and turnarounds
• Extensive experience in addressing a variety of financial, accounting, liquidity and leverage issues for companies in industries including aviation, automotive, energy, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing and distribution, media and entertainment, natural resources, real estate/construction, retail, steel, and telecommunications
• Recent past engagements include Kmart, Bethlehem Steel, Warnaco, Singer, Iridium, Engineered Plastic Products, Havens Steel and various others

• Advises clients in fraudulent conveyance and other avoidance actions and restructuring-related litigation, including Tronox, ASARCO, Neff, Tribune, Amaranth, Chrysler, Quebecor, Enron and various others
• Delivers a wide variety of litigation support services in matters including breach of contract, intellectual property, lender liability and other commercial litigation, and provides expert testimony
• Provides assistance with forensic accounting, investigative analysis and insurance claim resolution in fraud and white collar crime matters

• Experience operating and managing companies in receiverships and trusteeships
• Past engagements include Providence Trust Company, Trust Company of America, WKP/SPR International, and West Campus Square, as well as serving as the financial advisor to the Receiver of Capital Consultants in one of the country's largest investment company frauds

• Provides a variety of valuation services in support of corporate recovery and litigation engagements

• Provides financial advisory services involving business organizations experiencing significant financial and operating difficulties

• Previously served as a partner in the U.S. corporate recovery practice of KPMG LLP and started career at Pricewaterhouse LLP
• Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor (CIRA)
• Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP)
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Illinois, Oregon, Texas
• Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF)
• Certification in Distressed Business Valuation (CDBV)

• Illinois CPA Society's Women to Watch Award Winner, 2011
• IWIRC's "Woman of the Year in Restructuring," 2010
• CIRA Gold Medal Winner, 2003
• Crain's Chicago Business "40 Under 40", 2004
• Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy
• Frequent speaker at American Bankruptcy Institute, Turnaround Management Association and other industry events, and contributor to major trade publications such as the ABI Journal

• B.B.A, Texas A&M University
• M.B.A., Southern Methodist University

• American Bankruptcy Institute, board of directors and executive committee, immediate past president
• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Forensic and Litigation Services Committee, Bankruptcy Task Force
• International Federation of Insolvency Professionals, member
• Turnaround Management Association, former treasurer and director of Northwest chapter, member
• Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors, member
• International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation, member
• Chicago Finance Exchange, member
• Illinois Society of Certified Public Accountants, member
• Chicago Children's Choir, board of directors and immediate past chair