BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:63d14fdbf80059ec84b7d42dcba94ed067 CATEGORIES:New York Metro SUMMARY:Webinar | Directors in Distress DESCRIPTION:
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Pacific)
03:00 PM - 04:30 P
M (Mountain)
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Central)05:00 PM - 06:30 PM (Eastern)
Zoom invitation will be shared the day before the event.< /em>
Companies look for indepe ndent directors with varied expertise and experience, but one thing they ra rely look for (and hope never to need) in a candidate is restructuring and insolvency expertise. For this reason, when unwanted and unexpected financi al distress occurs, many boards are ill-equipped to handle it.
< p>Be prepared and learn the basics from those who have lived it. This 90-minute discussion will address:Jonathan Friedland |
Jonathan Friedland, a partner with Sugar Felsenthal Grais & Helsinger LLP, focuses a significant part of his practice on r epresenting corporate directors and boards connected with workout, restruct uring, and winddown situations (both in and out of bankruptcy). His vast ex perience includes companies owned by owner-operators, families, investor gr oups, venture capital funds, private equity funds, ESOPs, and corporate par ents. Jonathan is rated AV® Preeminent™ by Martindale-Hubbell, 10/10 by AVV O, and has earned many other similar distinctions. He is also the lead auth or of several books, including Strategic Distress for and Against Distr essed Businesses (Thompson Reuters 2021). View Jonathan's Link edIn profile for more details.
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ence Taylor |
Mr. Taylor is a C-level exe cutive, advisor, and board member with more than 30 years of business exper ience. He has guided organizations through complex restructuring, acquisiti ons, corporate development activities and capital transactions totaling ove r $15 billion. His experience spans start-ups to private companies to publi cly traded companies. He possesses extensive knowledge of finance, strategy , and operations. He has developed strategic, financial, operating and turn around strategies across multiple industries, including casino gaming, hosp itality, manufacturing, aviation, real estate, retail, and healthcare. He c urrently serves on the boards of Barrie House Coffee and CLP Holdings III, LLC. At Barrie House Coffee, he chairs the M&A committee and serves on the strategic planning committee. For 25 years, Mr. Taylor has served on t he boards and committees (M & M&A, Strategic Planning, Restructuri ng, Finance and Compensation) of multiple companies across various industri es.
Nicole Staple |
Nicole Staple is an entrepreneur and consultant for consumer and social impact bus inesses. In 2012 she co-founded Brideside, a direct-to-consumer retailer in the bridal industry, leading the company as CEO and growing from concept t o national eCommerce platform with six retail stores and 120 employees. Dur ing her tenure, Brideside became one of the largest woman-owned venture bus inesses headquartered in Chicago. Previously, Nicole held positions as a ve nture capital investor in Silicon Valley and investment banker. She serves on the Board of Directors for the cancer support nonprofit Gilda’s Club NYC . She is a graduate of Wellesley College and has an MBA from the Kellogg Sc hool of Management at Northwestern, where she is also a guest lecturer.