Distressed & Turnaround Investment Forum - Spring 2010 – iiBIG

Business Development Opportunities:
We are currently confirming sponsors for this year’s event. If you represent the Bankruptcy & Restructuring practice of a law firm; or represent other service providers in this market including turnaround professionals, transaction or other advisory firms, this conference is an outstanding place to brand your firm as a leader in this industry. We have many conference sponsorship options available; and can work with you to customize a sponsorship role that may include a speaking opportunity if appropriate. For more information on how you can benefit by becoming a sponsor of this conference, contact:

Don Buford, CEO, iiBIG at 212-300-2521 or donb@iibig.com

SILVER SPONSORS:
	Wildman Harrold - is defined by its combination of pragmatism and innovation. We develop solutions to protect and advance our clients' interests - with innovative thinking, a collaborative spirit, and breakthrough strategies. Wildman Harrold is a business law firm based in Chicago representing Fortune 500 companies, private businesses, and entrepreneurs across the country. Our Restructuring & Insolvency Practice delivers timely and creative legal advice targeted toward solving complex business problems. Our attorneys handle all aspects of commercial restructuring, using our broad experience in commercial finance and private equity to develop workable solutions for refinancing and recapitalization matters. We are particularly experienced in guiding our clients (including debtors, creditors, equity holders, asset purchasers, fiduciaries, and other stakeholders) through the pivotal stage when a company approaches and enters the zone of insolvency. For more information, please visit: www.wildman.com

ASSOCIATE SPONSORS:
	Asset Management Resources (AMR) is a SAS 70 Type II certified services provider with a core business that revolves around Fixed Asset Inventory & Reconciliation (FAIR) services. AMR delivers FAIR and other asset accountability services around the world in connection with Financial / Tax Compliance, SOX Compliance, System Migrations, Acquisitions, Fresh-Start Accounting, Valuations, and many other reasons. AMR allows large organizations to accurately represent their fixed asset base and create the visibility to objectively analyze capital investment returns, mitigate unnecessary capital spending, and lower operating expenses.

	BlackEagle Partners, LLC is a private equity firm focused on investing in businesses with unrealized potential that can benefit from our operational expertise and experience in the lower middle market. BlackEagle targets businesses that are underperforming or distressed, non-core subsidiaries and companies in out-of-favor industries. We focus on control investment opportunities dedicating between $5 - $40 million in equity capital across a broad range of industries excluding technology, real estate and telecommunications. www.blackeaglepartners.com

	Greenberg Traurig, LLP is an international, full-service law firm with approximately 1750 attorneys serving clients from more than 30 offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. In the U.S., the firm has more offices than any other among the Top 20 on The National Law Journal’s 2008 NLJ 250. In the U.K., the firm operates as Greenberg Traurig Maher LLP. Additionally, Greenberg Traurig has strategic alliances with the following independent law firms: Studio Santa Maria in Milan and Rome, TA Lawyers GKJ in Tokyo, and Weber Law Office in Zürich. For additional information, please visit www.gtlaw.com.

	Hilco Real Estate, LLC helps businesses improve leverage and cash flow by repositioning and restructuring their real estate commitments. Our focus is on optimizing value in the shortest time frame possible. Principal services: Property disposition Lease termination Lease renegotiation Sale/leaseback transactions Appraisals for leased and owned assets Fee and leasehold property acquisitions Real estate debt advisory services Asset and property management Our clients include retail businesses and industrial concerns that may be closing under-performing facilities, consolidating as a result of a merger or acquisition, expanding into new markets, or streamlining their organization. We serve healthy companies as well as those in turnaround and renewal or in bankruptcy. Two fundamentals drive every transaction handled by Hilco Real Estate specialists: speed is critical and we must meet or exceed the client's expectations. Our integrated services structure enables you to consolidate all your requirements with one resource. This versatility not only saves time and expense, it provides you with more options to bring about a satisfactory end result.

	For over fifty years, Mohawk has been an Industry leader in buying and selling quality machine tools worldwide. Whether you're searching for machinery you need or looking to sell machinery you no longer use, we can help you get the best possible value. No matter what your equipment needs, we can help. Buy Sell Liquidate Used Machinery and entire plants including aerospace and shipyards - large and small equipment, all types CNC, metal fabricating, gear machinery, lathes, boring mills, lasers, shears, stamping presses, coil equipment, press brakes, rotary surface & centerless grinders, also liquidators of industrial plants and equipment. For more information: www.mohawkmachinery.com

	Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP combines a broad national practice of corporate, business reorganization and restructuring, commercial law, intellectual property, and litigation with a general business, tax, estate planning and real estate practice within the State of Delaware. The firm is regularly involved as lead counsel or co-counsel in matters of national and international significance, as well as those affecting its immediate community. www.morrisnichols.com

	THENORTHSTARGROUP is a national team of experienced real estate professionals led by principals Peter Forsch and Tom Fous. We advise clients on the evaluation, restructuring, repositioning, management, and disposition of resort, residential, and amenitized master planned real estate projects. Our group develops strategic, financial and operational solutions to assist in evaluating, enhancing, and optimizing the value of our clients’ real estate assets. For more information go to: www.THENORTHSTARGROUP.net

	Saybrook Capital, LLC is a financial services firm that believes superior performance is achieved by applying specialized expertise to inefficient markets. For over a decade, Saybrook’s capital management and financial advisory teams have produced demonstrable results by knowing more about an asset class, for longer, with fewer distractions. Founded in 1990, the firm is headquartered in Los Angeles. Saybrook’s capital management professionals direct over $600 million in private equity and fixed income investments for a cadre of domestic and off-shore blue-chip investors, including public pension funds, insurance companies, private clients, fund-of-funds and private partnerships. For more information go to: www.saybrook.net

	Sonenshine Partners is a leading boutique investment bank based in New York and specializing in Mergers and Acquisitions and Restructurings of Companies. The firm’s partners are former partners of major Wall Street firms, including Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, Salomon Brothers, Wachovia and Credit Suisse First Boston. The Firm is known for excellence in corporate strategy, access to companies worldwide, and negotiation of complex transactions. The Firm’s practice is highly international in scope. The firm represents Fortune 500 and Middle Market companies and financial institutions. Clients have included Alcoa, Hewitt, Borders Books, Philadelphia News Group, Riverstone Networks (now Alcatel), Atrica Networks (now Nokia Siemens), Structural Dynamics (now Siemens), Abaqus Software (now Dassault Systemes), Manufacturers Services (now Celestica), Beverages & More, 1-800 Contacts, Proquest, NewSouth Communications (now Nuvox), KKR, Madison Dearborn, New Mountain Capital and many others. The firm is led by Marshall Sonenshine, formerly Head of Media M&A at Bankers Trust and Deutsche Bank and partner to Paul Volcker and James Wolfensohn at Wolfensohn & Company.

	Streambank is an advisory firm, specializing in the valuation, marketing, and sales of intangible assets for businesses at all stages. Streambank identifies, preserves, and extracts value for clients through the application of experience, diligence and creativity. The firm’s experience spans a broad range of industries including apparel, automotive, consumer products, food, manufacturing, medical technologies, retail and textiles. Streambank provides sound advice on value maximization strategies and liquidity options. Streambank is headquartered in Needham, MA and has offices in New York, NY and Portland, ME. For more information, please visit www.streambankllc.com.

	Stutman, Treister & Glatt is the preeminent bankruptcy boutique law firm. For more than 50 years, Stutman, Treister & Glatt has been a leader in the field of business reorganization and restructuring. Other firms may have bankruptcy "departments," or say they do what we do, but no other firm in the country has the depth and experience provided by ST&G's "experts only" bankruptcy professionals. The bottom line is this: In the field of bankruptcy law, ST&G's lawyers have experience and expertise that are second to none. Whether involving a small, closely-held company, or a nationally recognized public company, ST&G has what it takes to get the best result, every time. For more information go to: www.stutman.com

	ThinkFire is a full service intellectual property advisory, brokerage and licensing services firm. ThinkFire helps global technology companies and other intellectual property owners develop and execute IP strategies that maximize the return on their investment in IP. Since its founding in 2001, ThinkFire has helped its clients realize over $1 billion of value from their IP assets. ThinkFire’s advisory and transactional services include: IP Portfolio Analysis and Strategy Development; Private Equity IP Due Diligence; Patent Brokerage; Patent Licensing; Litigation Management; and Trademark Licensing. ThinkFire supports the development and execution of successful IP strategies for our clients by deploying a fully integrated team with the following capabilities: Business and market analysts; technology & patent analysts; patent & trademark licensing executives; IP attorneys; and patent brokers. ThinkFire team members bring to the firm extensive IP and client service experience as leaders of corporate IP and technology organizations, IP law firms and strategy and technology consulting companies including Lucent, Intel, General Electric, Bell Labs, IBM, Bain & Company, McKinsey and Accenture. For more information, please visit our website: www.thinkfire.com.