Chicago, IL
+1 312.595.8500

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
• 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, Kmart 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 in 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 Price Waterhouse LLP
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Illinois, Oregon, Texas
• Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor (CIRA)
• Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP)
• Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF)
• Certification in Distressed Business Valuation (CDBV)

• Women to Watch Award (Experienced Leaders), ICPAS and AICPA Women’s Executive Committees, 2011
• IWIRC's "Woman of the Year in Restructuring," 2010
• Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, 2010
• Crain's Chicago Business "40 Under 40", 2004
• CIRA Gold Medal Winner, 2003
• 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, summa cum laude
• M.B.A., Southern Methodist University

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