Eileen Frino is a seasoned finance professional with over ten years of experience spanning investment banking and credit advisory to operational and regulatory consulting.
With executive and entrepreneurial experience spanning close to 40 years, William Snyder has restructured, managed, and guided a multitude of companies in a wide variety of industries.
Barak Tulin is a creative, analytical, and effective executive with over 20 years of experience in performance improvement, restructuring and turnaround, financial planning and analysis, transaction services and general management.
Carve out of business entity as going concern, saving jobs
Achieved higher than expected recovery
Pre-packaged Chapter 7 process
The company was a $4MM recurring monthly revenue (RMR) home security provider to homes and businesses in the eastern U.S. with over 200 employees. After it became clear that the sale process would not yield a full recovery to the company’s lenders, CR3 was engaged to provide a CRO and additional personnel to manage the wind-down and increase recoveries to the constituents. CR3 successfully managed cash, oversaw and executed cost reductions, generated proceeds from incremental asset sales, accelerated payments from the original asset purchaser, and wound down the business ahead of a Chapter 7 bankruptcy process to allow a Trustee to recover the remaining proceeds.
The Situation
$4MM recurring monthly revenue (RMR) home security provider to homes and businesses in eastern U.S. with over 200 employees
Company began wind-down by selling security accounts to large competitor with agreed-upon sale process of 12 months
Buyer decided to extend process by six months without increasing purchase price of assets, which created additional cash-flow consumption and threatened to reduce recovery to secured lenders
Lenders required appointment of CRO to manage wind-down and increase recovery to stakeholders
The Work
Engaged to provide CRO and additional personnel to manage wind-down
Analyzed various in-court and out-of-court insolvency options to determine recoveries to constituents
Managed company personnel on-site to preserve operations and increase value of home-security accounts being sold
Negotiated sale of recently created dealer division to additional purchaser and generated incremental sale proceeds
Reduced personnel and service costs over time as accounts were sold and transferred to purchaser
Secured sale of excess inventory, vehicles, and equipment to liquidator to generate additional recoveries
Negotiated with buyer to accelerate timing of holdback payments on sale of accounts
Assisted in preparation of damages claims against company’s software provider and defense of various causes of action
Prepared company for Chapter 7 filing after all significant assets had been sold
The Results
Lenders received higher-than-expected recovery as a result of cost reductions and incremental asset sales
Dealer division was integrated into asset purchaser’s organization and continued to employ 30 FTEs who previously worked for company
Created fully packaged Chapter 7 bankruptcy process to generate future asset recoveries and dispose of significant liabilities
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