2008 Distressed & Turnaround Investment Conference

The Number One
Distressed & Turnaround Investment Conference of 2008

iiBIG’s 2008 “Distressed & Turnaround Investment Forum” will convene in New York, May 14-15, 2008 at the Marriott Marquis.

Following our WEST event in Las Vegas, our EAST event in NYC has attracted a 45+ member speaking faculty, and ten (10) sponsoring organizations – making this, the NUMBER ONE Distressed & Turnaround Investment conference of 2008!

New Opportunity Funds focusing on distressed investing are opening almost daily as asset valuations and the credit crunch are creating outstanding prospects for investors and turnaround managers. Join with leading deal-makers who will be discussing where to find the BIGgest opportunities in this market.

Click here to REGISTER TODAY!

Register today to join the leaders in opportunity investing from companies and organizations like these:
(updated as of May 7, 2008)

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority
ANALYTX
APEX Fundamental Partners LLC
Bank of New York Mellon
Bartell & Bartell
Bassich & Associates, Inc.
BBK
Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP
BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.
CAI Capital Management
Candlewood Partners
Cappello Partners, LLC
Catella Investments
ClearBid Capital
CM&D Capital Advisors, LLC
Cohen & Steers Capital Advisors, LLC
Concordia Advisors, LLC
Conway, MacKenzie & Dunleavy
CRG Partners
Cushman & Wakefield, Inc.
Debtwire
Deloitte & Touche
Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP
Enron Creditors Recovery Corp.
Federal City Capital Partners, LLC
First American Title Insurance Company of New York
Foley & Lardner, LLP
Foley Hoag LLP
Fortress Investment Group
Garrison Investment Group LP
General Electric
Goldman Sachs International
Grisanti, Galef and Goldress, Inc.
Hahn & Hessen LLP
Hunt Special Situations Group
Insight Equity Holdings, LLC
International Process Plants
Investment Dealers' Digest
JSA Business Development

Kapitalpartner AG
Kargman Associates
MarketAxess
Morgan Stanley
National City Capital Markets
NewStar
Nixon Peabody LLP
Northwestern Mutual Financial Network
Novo A/S
Orix Finance
Paige Capital Management
Palladium Equity Partners LLC
Peter J. Solomon Company
Polygon Investment Partners
QORVAL LLC
Redwood Capital Advisors, LLC
Republic Financial Corporation
Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP
RZB Finance, LLC
Seton Hall University School of Law
Signature Capital Partners, Inc.
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Stone Tower Capital, LLC
Strategic Management Partners
T5 Equity Partners
Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP
Transition Services, Inc.
Trimaran Capital Partners
U.S. Education Finance Group
Vanquish Capital Group, LLC
Versa Capital Management, Inc.
Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis LLP
Water Tower Capital, LLC
Watermark Advisors
Wells Fargo Business Credit
Wharton School/U. Penn
WilmerHale
Wingate Partners
York Capital Management

An ‘iiBIG’ Thank You to Our 2008 “EAST” Conference Sponsors
(as of March 11, 2008)

Gold Sponsors:

Versa Capital Management, Inc.

Richards Kibbe & Orbe, LLP

BBK

Hahn & Hessen LLP

Associate Sponsors:

Edward Angell Palmer
& Dodge

CM&D Capital Advisors, LLC

Insight Equity Holdings, LLC

Waller Lansden Dortch
& Davis LLP

International Process Plants

Transition Services, Inc.

Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP

Executive Speaking Faculty (updated as of April 25, 2008)

Jay I. 'Bud' Applebaum, Principal
Wingate Partners

Philip A. Arra, President
Hunt Special Situations Group

Gil Backenroth, Partner
Hahn & Hessen LLP

Jonathan Berger, Senior Managing Director
Stone Tower Capital, LLC

Ravi Bhagavatula, CFA Director,
Special Assets Group
Republic Financial Corporation

Allan A. Brown, Co-Head, Distressed Debt Group, Concordia Advisors, LLC

John Buck, Vice President
Versa Capital Management, Inc.

Mark E. Chesen, Senior Managing Director
National City Capital Markets

John Collard, CTP, Chairman
Strategic Management Partners
(Past Chair, TMA)

James Connor, Managing Director
BBK

Paul Coughlin, Founder and Managing Partner, Longroad Asset Management

Marvin A. Davis, Managing Partner
Grisanti,Galef and Goldress, Inc.

Rob Deutschman, Vice Chairman
Ernron Creditors Recovery Corp.
& President, Cappello Partners, LLC

Joshua I. Divack, Partner
Hahn & Hessen LLP

Mitchell Drucker, Managing Director
Garrison Investment Group LP

Lachlan Edwards, Managing Director
Goldman Sachs International

Michael Epstein, Managing Partner
CRG Partners

Bruce Ferguson, Managing Director
APEX Fundamental Partners LLC

John Gallagher, CDS Product Management, MarketAxess

Thomas H. Gordy, Senior Managing Director, CM&D Capital Advisors, LLC

Tom Granahan, Editor
IDD Magazine

Bobby Guy, Partner
Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP

Charles Hale, Managing Partner
York Capital Management

Larry G. Halperin, Partner
Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP

David H. Hartheimer, President
ClearBid Capital

Joon Hong, Partner
Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP

Steven T. Kargman, President
Kargman Associates

Timothy Lin, Partner
Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP

Stephen J. Lubben, Daniel J. Moore Professor of Law, Seton Hall University School of Law

Craig Martin, Attorney
Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, LLP

Anders J. Maxwell, Managing Director
Peter J. Solomon Company

Martin J. McKinley, President
Wells Fargo Business Credit

Craig Forrest Noell, Managing Principal
Signature Capital Partners, Inc.

Michele Paige, Managing Member
Paige Capital Management

Ira J. Perlmuter, Managing Director
T5 Equity Partners

Glenn C. Pollack, Managing Director and
Founder, Candlewood Partners

Dan Reid, National Managing Principal, Transaction Advisory Services,
GRANT THORNTON LLP

Sonny Saksena, Managing Director,
FINLES CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
(Hedge Fund of Funds – The Netherlands)

Ian Schneider, Managing Director
Fortress Investment Group

Gregory L. Segall, Managing Partner
Versa Capital Management, Inc.

John Stark III, Managing Principal
Water Tower Capital, LLC

Nicholas Whitney, Partner
Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP

Matthew Wirz, Editor-in-Chief
Debtwire

Shmuel Vasser, Partner
Nixon Peabody LLP

For more information regarding opportunities to become involved in the 2008 EAST coast conference, please contact:

Don Buford, CEO, iiBIG
Phone: 212-300-2521
E-mail: donb@iibig.com

OVERVIEW/SUMMARY:

As the credit crunch continues into 2008, more and more mid-market to large-cap companies will be having difficulty refinancing old debt or taking on new debt. This means that troubled companies are destined to become a larger part of the portfolios of private equity, hedge fund and other sophisticated investors.

But the financial crisis is only part of the picture. There is also a “leadership and management crisis” becoming more and more obvious in many companies. This means more opportunities for distressed investors and turnaround professionals – and those who help them to make deals, and build value in order to make profitable exits. As these trends continue, there is a growing need to employ “big-picture” strategies that encompass not only legal, financial and capital market innovations, but corporate restructuring and turnaround management savvy as well.

iiBIG’s 2008 Distressed & Turnaround Investment Forum – EAST, scheduled for May 14-15, 2008 at the Marriott Marquis in New York City is the place where professionals representing all the solutions and strategies in this highly sophisticated and lucrative market will meet.

Past Attendee List for the 2007 Distressed & Turnaround Investment Forum – WEST

Held September 24-25, 2007 in Las Vegas, iiBIG’s inaugural Distressed & Turnaround Investment Forum event was attended by 200 of the leading investors and deal-makers representing the following companies:

Accord Financial, Inc
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
AlixPartners
Aon Financial Services Group
Atlas Partners LLC
Atomic Inc.
Bank of Nevada Commercial
Banking
Bayside Capital
BBK Ltd
Berlin Industries, Inc.
Blake Dawson Waldron (Australia)
Bridge Financial Group
Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP
Candlewood Partners
Capital Placement Holdings
CapitalSource
Cappello Partners, LLC
CB Management Services
Cerberus California Inc.
Chilmark Partners LLC
CIT Group
Clear Thinking Group
Commonfund Asset Mgmt. Co., Inc.
Conway, MacKenzie & Dunelavy
Cornell University
Corporate Renewal Services, Inc.
CRG Partners
Cushman & Wakefield of CA, Inc.
D.B. Zwirn & Co. LP
Danske Private Equity
Dechert, LLP
Distressed Debt Investor
Eclipse Corporate Development
Elite Financial
Enron Creditors Recovery Corp.
Falconhead Capital LLC
First American
Fortress Investment Group
Francisco Partners
FTI Consulting
GE Commercial Finance Corporate Lending

Genpact Mortgage
Gerbsman Partners
Getzler Henrich & Associates LLC
GHP Management, LLC
Goldman Sachs & Co.
Goldsmith Agio Helms
Great American Group
Greystone Private Equity, LLC
Grisanti,Galef and Goldress, Inc.
Heenan Blaikie, LLP (Canada)
Henry Davis York
Hilco Real Estate
Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin
Hughes & Luce, LLP
Hunt Special Situations Group
Hunton & Williams, LLP
Huron Consulting Group
Hybrid Capital
Independent Corporation of America
Information Forecast Institute
Insight Equity Holdings, LLC
Jefferies & Company, Inc.
KGI Capital
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Lake Park Capital LLC
LaSalle Bank, N.A.
Lazard Freres & Co. LLC
LBA Realty
Lockheed Martin Investment Mgmt
Longroad Asset Management
Macquarie Securities (USA) Inc.
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
McGrath Nicol and Partners
Merrill Lynch Capital
MetLife
Miller Buckfire
Monomoy Capital Partners
Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell
Morris-Anderson & Associates
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
Murray Capital Management, Inc.

National City Capital Markets
Naval Special Warfare Foundation
Novo A/S
Oak Hill Advisors
Octavian Advisors
OPTrust
Peter J. Solomon Company
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Prime Locations LLC
Private Advisors, LLC
Private Investor
Proskauer Rose
Quinn Pacific
RBS Greenwich Capital
Rebecca O. Fruchtman Law Offices
Republic Financial Corporation
Richards Kibbe Orbe LLP
Robeco Investment Management
San Manuel Band of Mission Indians
SB Capital Group, LLC
Signature Capital Partners, Inc.
Silver Point Capital
Springbanc Capital, Inc.
Stairway Capital
Standard & Poor's
Steel City Capital Funding
Stony Lane Partners & Heico
Strategic Management Partners
Stutman, Treister & Glatt
Summit Investment Mgmt.
Sun Capital Partners
Superior Capital Partners
The Governance Group, Inc.
The Hilco Organization, LLC
Thompson Hine
USC Marshall School of Business
Vulcan Capital
Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis
Water Tower Capital
Wellesley College Investment Office
Wells Fargo Foothill

CONFERENCE PRICING:

$1,795 (if registered BEFORE Monday, March 31, 2008)
$1,995 (if registered AFTER Monday, March 31, 2008)
$1,595 (if registered a group of 3 or more at the same time. No deadline)

To Register, CLICK HERE.

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS

Continuing Education Credits (e.g. CLE, CPE, CME, etc.) may be available for this conference.

Upon request conference attendees will be provided with a “Certificate of Attendance” and a copy of the conference agenda, showing topics, length of sessions, and name(s) and professional affiliation(s) of presenter(s) for each session.

Attendees wishing to apply for continuing education credits for attending this conference may submit this documentation to the relevant organization in his/her state when applying for such credits.

DON'T MISS OUT ON THESE OPPORTUNITIES:

Interested in Participating?
For information on becoming involved as a presenter at this industry-leading conference, contact:

Don Buford, CEO, iiBIG
Tel: 212-300-2521
Email: info@iibig.com

Business Development Opportunities:
For more information on Sponsorship and/or Exhibition Opportunities contact:

Kellie Swanstrom, VP Business Development, iiBIG
Tel: 973-571-0867
Email: info@iibig.com

Marketing/Media Partnership Opportunities:
If you are seeking more visibility for your publication, newsletter, website or blog among business and financial leaders in the healthcare and investment communities contact:

Ria Lubis, VP Marketing, iiBIG
Tel: 212-300-2523
Email: info@iibig.com