Greg Baracato

His U.S. and international industry experience includes evaluation of operations, developing reserve-based borrowing capacity models, public offerings converting debt to equity, bank group negotiations, and cost reduction initiatives. Greg is an active member of the restructuring professional community and served as President of the Turnaround Management Association - Dallas Chapter.

Representative Experience

• CRO to ValuePart, an industrial parts distributor resulting in an award-winning, successful Chapter 11 reorganization.

• Interim CFO to Capital Associates International, a public company that leased industrial equipment and funded the leases with a series of public and private income funds. Oversaw delisting of the company to take it private.

• CRO of $200MM industrial products distribution company. Stabilized and restructured the operations in order to cure technical defaults on the bank loan. Assisted the investment bank in finding a purchaser resulting in the sale of the company to a private equity sponsored strategic company which preserved the jobs for a substantial majority of the employees.

• Assisted a Halliburton Company, an international energy services company, in its financial and strategic restructuring in order to eliminate uncertainty due to its $5B liability from over 300,000 asbestos lawsuit claims.

• Assisted Bridas Corporation a $1.6B Argentina multinational energy company in a dispute with a former Russian state to minimize the impact of the dispute on operations and prepared expert reports filed in an ICC arbitration resulting in damage awards in excess of $2B.