Merrill Corporation is a leading provider of outsourcing solutions for various complex business communication and information management needs. Merrill’s services include document and data management, financial printing, litigation support, language translation, captioning, branded communication programs, fulfillment, imaging and printing.

Merrill DataSite™ is a comprehensive virtual data room (VDR) solution that accelerates the due diligence process by providing a secure online document repository for confidential time-sensitive documents. Merrill DataSite overcomes the many limitations of a traditional paper data room by enabling companies to maintain and share critical business information in a secure Web-based environment. Merrill DataSite allows multiple parties to participate concurrently in the deal – anywhere, at any time. As a result, transaction time and expense are dramatically reduced. Our team can scan, upload and organize up to 50,000 pages of content from any source in 72 hours or less. Our multilingual staff is available 24 hours a day worldwide. Currently, Merrill DataSite is the industry’s only ISO 27001 certified VDR solution.

For more information visit:
www.merrillcorp.com

Wingate Partners is a Dallas based private equity firm focused on making control equity investments in 'story deals'--businesses with annual revenues between $50 and $250 million going  through significant transition, including under-performing companies, companies  in difficult or changing industries, or those with incomplete management  teams.  Since 1987, Wingate Partners has acquired 65 companies in 17 industries and built businesses with combined revenues in excess of $6 billion.

O’Keefe & Associates was established to provide transactional financial services to clients experiencing non recurring or “life” events. These events would be significant to the Company’s growth or survival.  The concept was to allow ownership a management resource not typically found within the organization structure, but was required to address an immediate concern to ownership. 
We are creative, highly specialized, service oriented, experienced and motivated to apply our financial skills to achieve the best results possible for our clients. 
Regardless of whether we are representing a client restructuring their finances and operations or preparing for litigation, we uncover the truth, frame it and deliver complex information and strategies in a framework that is commonly understood and solution oriented.
O’Keefe & Associates believes its only sustainable competitive advantage is its reputation.

For more information visit:
http://www.okeefac.com/

With more than 2,000 attorneys in 22 offices on four continents, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and affiliates serves clients in every major financial center. Our strategically positioned U.S. and international locations allow us proximity to our clients and their operations and ensure a seamless and unified approach at all times.

For 60 years, Skadden has provided a wide array of legal services to the corporate, industrial, financial and governmental communities around the world in many of the most significant corporate transactions and litigations. Our clients range from a variety of small, start-up companies to a substantial number of the 500 largest U.S. corporations and many of the leading global companies. We have represented numerous governments, many of the largest banks — including virtually all of the leading investment banks — and major insurance and financial services companies. The firm has more than 40 practice areas and advises clients in matters involving, among others, mergers and acquisitions, litigation and arbitration, corporate finance, corporate restructuring, securities law, banking, project finance, energy and infrastructure, antitrust, tax and intellectual property.

For more information visit:
www.skadden.com

Shearman & Sterling LLP, a global law firm with approximately 1,000 attorneys in 20 offices worldwide, has been advising many of the world's leading corporations and financial institutions for over 130 years.  The firm’s Bankruptcy & Reorganization practice is a market leader in U.S. and international restructurings, recapitalizations and bankruptcies, with significant experience representing buyers, sellers, creditors and financiers in distressed M&A transactions.  The firm can quickly assemble an integrated team of lawyers from its expansive practice areas across the globe to handle a client’s legal and business issues efficiently, skillfully and effectively.  The firm represented two of the largest chapter 11 debtors to file in 2007, including the first prepackaged chapter 11 in the automotive sector.

For more information visit:
www.shearman.com

Rothschild is an international investment banking firm focused on Mergers & Acquisitions, Restructurings and Private Placements.  With over 40 offices in 31 countries, Rothschild has more than 800 advisory bankers worldwide.

Rothschild’s culture of innovation, client service and integrity has resulted in a reputation for value-added practical advice.  Rothschild is exclusively focused on M&A advisory, Financing and Restructuring services. With this approach, Rothschild bankers can provide objective financial advice, unencumbered by the need to cross sell other products.

The Restructuring group is currently composed of 50 bankers globally with offices in New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Milan and Singapore. Rothschild has significant experience working with companies in a variety of industries, and the firm’s Restructuring assignments have included both in-court and out-of-court transactions.

For more information visit:
www.rothschild.com

Cadwalader’s Financial Restructuring Department is a premier bankruptcy, insolvency and workout group. Distinguished by broad experience, the diverse nature of our clients, and significant global expertise, our team delivers extra-ordinary results and provides added value to our clients. Our practitioners, many of whom are internationally recognized leaders in their fields, bring clients the business acumen and in-depth legal knowledge necessary to successfully navigate complex restructurings and reorganizations. With dedicated experience and professionals in both the United States and the United Kingdom, our attorneys respond quickly to cross-border issues.

Our clients include many of the largest investment management firms, hedge funds, mutual funds, insurance companies, pension funds, and commercial and investment banks in the world. We also represent many Fortune 500 companies and other leading public and private businesses. We advise these clients in their capacity as debtors, bondholders, creditors’ committees, senior lenders, asset purchasers, or other roles in financial restructuring transactions or complex reorganization or workout cases in a wide range of industries, including aerospace and air transportation, cable, commodities, electronics, energy, financial products and services, gaming and resorts, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, media, military and defense, oil and gas, rail, real estate, retail, shipping, steel, telecommunications, and utilities.

With many years of combined experience, diverse talents and different areas of focus, our attorneys provide clients with counsel in all facets of the restructuring process. Whether shaping an overall legal strategy for a debtor, or creating a plan to give creditors maximum recovery, our clients have access to some of the best legal talent in the industry. Our attorneys assist them with everything from negotiating debtor-in-possession and exit financing to raising money for troubled companies or gaining consents from creditors. They also have extensive litigation expertise and are equally adept at enforcing creditors’ rights through litigation as they are at defending debtors in actions in bankruptcy and other courts. They provide strategic advice to both creditors and debtors to anticipate, or minimize the risk of, potential insolvency-related litigation and are also skilled at handling the intricacies of international chapter 11 cases and chapter 15 proceedings brought in the U.S. on behalf of foreign representatives. Our attorneys are able to readily assess the multiple perspectives underlying a complex restructuring and take pride in their ability to quickly and efficiently negotiate solutions.

For more information visit:
www.cwt.com

AlixPartners is a global restructuring, consulting, and financial advisory firm. 

The AlixPartners’ “one-stop-shop” suite of services ranges from operational performance improvement and financial restructuring across all major corporate disciplines to financial advisory services and technology-enabled claims management.  We deliver these services using small teams of experienced, senior operating and financial executives, and align our incentives with those of our clients.

AlixPartners pioneered many of today’s most effective turnaround strategies.  In the process, we have earned a reputation for building consensus, managing expectations, driving the process and changing the outcome for the better.  Regardless of where our clients are, we bring our signature hands-on approach and relentless focus on obtaining results. 

For more information please visit
www.alixpartners.com

Insight Equity I LP is a private equity firm that makes control investments in strategically viable, middle market companies with some level of historical underperformance. Insight’s experienced principals have acquired and managed businesses with over $3B in aggregate revenue since 1998. Insight is comfortable in complex or challenging situations and has the ability to execute quickly in circumstances where speed is a priority.  The firm leverages a proven collaborative value creation model to facilitate operational improvements leading to significant cash generation and growth. Insight Equity’s headquarters is conveniently located near the Dallas/Ft. Worth International Airport in Southlake, Texas.

For more information please visit
www.insightequity.com

Lone Star New Markets LP ("LSNM"), a Certified Development Entity (CDE), received a tax credit allocation under the Treasury's New Market Tax Credits Program. Lone Star Growth Capital LP ("LSGC") co-invests with Lone Star New Markets LP. Together, LSNM and LSGC (collectively, “Lone Star New Markets Funds”) will make $1 million - $10 million equity-oriented investments in private middle market Texas based companies.  All investments are in companies domiciled in low to moderate income areas of Texas.

For more information please visit
www.lonestarnewmarkets.com

Yorkville Advisors, LLC is the investment manger to a dedicated private investment fund that provides innovative financing solutions to public and private companies (“Issuers”) worldwide.  Yorkville works closely with management to design custom-tailored, alternative financing structures that meet the Issuer’s capital needs and corporate goals.  Yorkville has structured transactions with numerous companies listed in the US, UK, Australia, Brazil, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Italy and Hong Kong.  Yorkville seeks to structure investments using convertible and straight debt, bridge loans, convertible or straight equity and equity lines while making investments in a broad range of transactions, including late-stage venture, growth and mature enterprises, control and non-control transactions, special situations and management or leveraged buyouts.

For more information please visit
www.yorkvilleadvisors.com

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Debtwire publishes real-time news and data for financial professionals in the distressed debt and leveraged finance markets around the world.

With the largest network of dedicated event driven journalists based in 53 locations across North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East & Africa, Debtwire offers the most comprehensive leveraged finance news service available today.  

Debtwire is part of the Mergermarket Group, a division of the Financial Times Group, publisher of the Financial Times newspaper, FT.com, Les Echos, Expansion and FT Deutschland.  The FT Group is a division of Pearson plc, the international media group.  

For more information visit:
www.debtwire.com

Hedge Connection is the only web-based platform that offers hedge funds direct access to pre-qualified, opt-in investors that are actively allocating to hedge funds. Investor members join for free and can review videos and presentation material from our hedge fund members. All members receive invitations to member's only events and partner discounts.

For more information visit:
www.hedgeconnection.com

ABF Journal – the most widely read and distributed independent trade publication focused on all facets of the asset-based lending industry. ABF Journal provides asset-based lenders, turnaround managers, factors and service provider advertisers with unparalleled national connections to the asset-based lending industry by reaching thousands of decision makers and business leaders every month.

abfjournal.com - provides Banner, On-line Directory and Classified Employment advertisers with daily reach to the most targeted audience of ABL industry prospects via the Internet.

abfjournal.com’s Daily E-News Update – Advertising on the Daily E-News Update is the most effective way to reach ABL industry prospects via e-mail…EVERY DAY. 

For more information visit:
www.abfjournal.com

AltAssets is the world's most popular online private equity news and
research service. Targeted specifically at institutional investors, the
platform is also visited by thousands of private equity firms and
general partners. It contains current news coverage of the industry,
plus opinions and analysis of the trends apparent in today's private
equity market, all written by our team of in-house journalists and
researchers.

AltAssets also provides an online library of private information in the
form of thousands of articles and reports aggregated and commissioned
from expert sources. AltAssets provides analysis and research to 1,000
institutional investors and 2,000 private equity and venture capital
firms worldwide. Each week 434,000 private equity professionals visit
the site, downloading 3 million pages of information. AltAssets is
operated as part of the research division of placement and advisory firm
Almeida Capital.

For more informatin visit:
www.altassets.net

The Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors (AIRA) is a nationwide non-profit organization serving the needs of business turnaround, restructuring and bankruptcy practitioners. AIRA is the recognized leading organization in this field. Membership consists of accountants, financial advisors, attorneys, workout consultants, trustees, and others involved in insolvency and bankruptcy matters.

AIRA's goals are to foster an understanding of the insolvency reorganization and business turnaround practice, to gain recognition for our specialized services, to sponsor relevant education programs and to administer the Certified Insolvency Restructuring Advisor (CIRA) and the Certification in Distressed Business Valuation (CDBV) programs.

For more information visit:
http://www.airacira.org

We are an international, not-for-profit organization of hedge fund managers, service providers, and investors. Objectives include education of legislators, the media and investing public about the true facts of hedge fund investing, and in so doing, to improve the image of hedge funds.  

As hedge funds still suffer from misperceptions about high risk and volatility, the HFA aims to educate the investing public and legislators around the world on the true benefits as well as potential risks associated with investing in the different hedge fund strategies.

Our members enjoy:  Access to a wealth of information;  Great networking opportunities; Link from HFA web site to member sites;  Meaningful HFA discounts resulting in "no-cost" membership ;  Prestige associated with use of HFA logo on your literature ; Opportunity to contribute to hedge fund industry and participate in HFA decision-making.

For more information visit:
www.thehfa.org