Restructuring & Dispute Resolution

Changing economic conditions, operational challenges, or the natural business life cycle can cause businesses to find themselves in complex situations where their profitability or viability may be on the line. From potential bankruptcies to costly legal disputes, these events require careful assessment, modeling, planning, negotiations, and other steps to determine the best path forward.

Many of the country’s top companies, lenders, law firms, and investment firms call on CohnReznick to assist in transitional, stressed, and distressed situations. With decades of industry and situation-specific experience, our professionals can identify and implement financial and operational strategies to improve process, profit, and recovery – driving value and decreasing risk for stakeholders.

What’s your next move? Changing market and economic conditions may require businesses to implement tactics and strategies designed to reduce expenses, improve operations, and boost revenue. Our team of performance improvement specialists are objective, industry-experienced, and situation-tested. We help companies align people, process, and technology to maximize value and transition from bad to good and good to great.

Profit enhancement assessment and execution
Budget planning, forecasting, and reporting
Lean and Six Sigma process improvement
Supply chain optimization
Organizational design
Digital innovation and implementation
Executive augmentation (CxO, Controller, VP Sales)
Cybersecurity and privacy
Risk management

Business owners can face significant financial and operational issues such as liquidity challenges, operational disruption, resource constraints, or strained stakeholder relationships. Our award-winning turnaround and restructuring professionals combine industry-specific knowledge and situational experience to help stabilize cash and operations and protect and create value for long-term recovery.

Liquidity, turnaround, and viability assessments
Cash flow management and modeling
Crisis and interim management (CxO)
Lender, sponsor, and vendor workout
Capital sourcing and asset monetization
Fiduciary oversight (trustee, receiver, ABC)
Bankruptcy advisory (pre- and post-filing)
Tax planning for balance sheet restructuring

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Unfavorable economic conditions can trigger financially motivated disagreements and even crimes, resulting in personal, corporate, and government disputes. These disputes can cause crippling financial, operational, and reputational damage., Our team of financial, legal, and forensic specialists can help organizations resolve disputes thoroughly, confidentially, economically, and in a time-sensitive manner. Leveraging eDiscovery, data analytics, and other tools, we can help uncover improprieties, and research and present the information needed to make the case – whether in-court or out-of-court.

Fraud and forensic accounting
Internal and government investigations
Asset tracing/recovery of misused funds
White collar crimes investigation
Computer forensic and eDiscovery
ESI processing
Expert witness testimony and reports
Legal hold, data preservation and collection

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When exit options are being discussed, it makes sense to involve a team that listens, understands critical goals, and has the experience to help realize them. Whether winding down a business, transferring ownership to family member, or selling to a strategic investor or private equity firm, our professionals can craft and implement strategies to create and protect stakeholder value. We plan and manage exits to maximize recovery and minimize risk.