David R. WoodfordManaging Director
Mesirow Financial Consulting, LLC
New York, NY
+1 212.808.8362
Corporate Recovery
- Over 20 years of experience in corporate and operational restructurings while providing advisory services to financially distressed businesses and their stakeholders
- Provided restructuring services to organizations in transition while serving as chief financial officer/treasurer
- Relevant experience includes: interim management of under-performing companies, stabilizing crisis situations, restructuring of operations; restructuring of corporate indebtedness; developing and negotiating plans of reorganization; analysis of operations and business plans, preparation of operating budgets, cash flow projections and long-term strategic plans; preparation of going concern analyses and development of liquidation valuations; and studies of operational efficiencies and supervising the design and implementation of enhanced systems and processes
- Transaction experience includes assistance with the sale and acquisition of businesses, due diligence reviews on behalf of potential acquirers and negotiation of purchase price
- Assistance with the marketing of businesses for sale, including development of offering memoranda and identification and solicitation of potential buyers
- Litigation support services, including expert witness testimony, in support of forensic accounting investigations and complex financial analyses
- Served as chief financial officer/treasurer of organizations in transition
- Relevant experience, including: overall responsibility for accounting and financial reporting functions; overall responsibility for treasury function, including cash and investment management; assessment and evaluation of internal controls and implemented recommendations designed to enhance controls and improve operating efficiencies; and design and implementation of general ledger accounting systems and financial management reporting systems
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA), New Jersey and New York
- Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor (CIRA)
- B.S., University of Connecticut
- M.B.A., University of Connecticut
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, member
- New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants, member
- American Bankruptcy Institute, member
- Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors, member
- Turnaround Management Association, member

