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CAPITAL, INC.

RESTRUCTURING GROUP

 

EM Capital, Inc. and FreemanPartners

 International Turnaround & Restructuring Advisors

 

 

“Hope is not a strategy”

 

Solving Tough Financial and Operational Problems, Now.

EM Capitaltm assists venture capital firms, private equity firms, high-net worth investors, lenders, landlords, boards, accountants, corporate and insolvency counsel and the senior management of entities facing critical operational and financial issues, often leading to constrained capital resources, liquidity problems and insolvency.

One of the most common and ultimately biggest mistakes made by business stakeholders is to delay addressing serious present and indicated financial problems.  Engaging professional financial advisors early preserves stakeholder options and provides for better and more complete information gathering, analysis, evaluation, planning and enhanced turnaround execution.  Working closely with client professionals, EM Capital is a trusted member of the team of advisors.

EM Capital provides fast, creative strategic and tactical financial advice, working with client management and staff and/or directly implementing agreed upon initiatives as an internal work team: 

·        Business financial feasibility analysis

·        Financial modeling and due diligence for investors, boards, senior management and prospective M&A transactors

·        Draft business plan revisions and investment proposals

·        Investigate and advise on alternative capital resources

·        Investigate immediate cost reduction opportunities

·        Develop thoughtful alternatives

·        Design measurable, executable strategies

·        Report on recommended actions

·        Execute and implement agreed upon initiatives

·        Prepare lease and occupancy costs evaluations

·        Negotiate cost reductions, accounts payables discounts and cash recoveries

·        Serve as out-sourced CFOs and controllers

·        Valuations & liquidation analysis

·        Pre Chapter 11 planning

·        Organize Chapter 11 information for counsel

·        Investigate preference payment recoveries

·        Investigate fraudulent transfers

·        Prepare Chapter 11 Plans of Reorganization with counsel

·        Serve as Financial Advisor to creditor committees

EM principals and staff operate with a sense of urgency and are prepared to assemble and provide the necessary resources to begin an engagement within 24 hours, if requested.   Professionals are available on an hourly consulting or retained basis as required.

Reducing Costs and Recovering Cash

EM Capital focuses its immediate attention to assisting stakeholders in reducing recurring costs, evaluating and implementing staff reductions, investigating possible vendor and supplier over-billing and over-payments and looks for other creative ways to stretch cash and reduce operating costs, including:

·         Restructuring long term debt

·         Evaluate and negotiate real estate lease rate and payment concessions

·         Renegotiating equipment and machinery leases.

·         Investigating and identifying new facilities

·         Negotiating new price and payment terms with vendors and suppliers

·         Negotiating structured accounts payable settlements with vendors and suppliers

·         Preparing and implementing staffing reductions

·         Re-bidding contracts for insurance, maintenance, security, telecommunications, etc.

·         Auditing accounts payable and recovering erroneous payments

·         Investigating purchasing procedures to reduce inventories

·         Identifying and recommending other sources of cost reductions.

Firm Background and Key Principals
EM Capital, Inc. is an international crisis management, business turnaround and restructuring advisor and merchant banking boutique.  Specialists in cross-border and international turnaround and restructuring strategies, EM Capital possesses an international network of local offices in most major markets.  Particular expertise in important emerging markets such is India, China, Mexico, South and Central America.

EM Capital's president, Seth R. Freeman, MBA, CIRA, has 22 years experience as senior manager, asset manager, interim senior manager and investor in distressed businesses, troubled real estate investments, start-ups and as an international financial and marketing advisor. Mr. Freeman is Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor (CIRA),  a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors (formerly the Association of Insolvency Accountants), a CIRA and a member of the Turnaround Management Association.  He is a past Chairman of the Editorial Board of TMA's "Journal of Corporate Renewal".  Mr. Freeman earned his MBA in International Management from Thunderbird - American Graduate School of International Management.  He is a frequent speaker at major national and international conferences on the topics of business credit and collateral issues, business turnarounds and capital formation.  Mr. Freeman is a licensed California real estate broker.

Additional professional and staff resources as accountants, appraisers, financial analysts, interim executives and managers, marketing consultants, public relations, etc., are drawn from EM Capital's international network of qualified professional firms and specialist consultants.

EM Capital, Inc.

International Turnaround and Restructuring Advisors

51 Moraga Way, Suite 204

Orinda, CA 94563

Tel: (925) 376-8700

  Fax: (925)955-1652

US Toll Free: (800) 933-1850

 srfreeman@emcapital.com

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