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Melissa Kibler Knoll Senior Managing Director, Mesirow Financial Consulting,LLC |
| 321 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 steel, retail, automotive, distribution, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, telecommunications, natural resources, aviation and energy
- Recent past engagements include Kmart, Bethlehem Steel, Warnaco, Singer, Iridium, BMK, Assisted Living Concepts, Physician Partners and various others
- Advises clients in fraudulent conveyance and other avoidance actions and restructuring-related litigation, including advising counsel to Citibank and other lenders defending the Enron "Mega Complaint" litigation regarding solvency
- 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
- Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor (CIRA)
- Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP)
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Illinois, Oregon, Texas
- Contributor to major trade publications such as the ABI Journal
- CIRA Gold Medal Winner, 2003
- Recognition in Crain's Chicago Business "40 Under 40", 2004
- Frequent speaker at American Bankruptcy Institute, Turnaround Management Association and other industry events
- B.B.A, Texas A&M University
- M.B.A., Southern Methodist University
- American Bankruptcy Institute, board of directors and executive committee, vice president of membership
- 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
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, member
- Illinois Society of Certified Public Accountants, member
- Chicago Children's Choir, board of directors, first vice chair
