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EM Capital, Inc. / FreemanPartners
Advisors - Managers - Merchant Bankers – Investors

U.S. & EMERGING MARKETS RESTRUCTURING, TURNAROUND MANAGEMENT & DEBT AND EQUITY

Offices in San Francisco, Detroit, New York, Mexico City, La Paz, London, Athens, Tokyo, Moscow, Shanghai & New Delhi

 

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Hope is not a strategy!, Seth R. Freeman, CEO

 
 

 

 


Solving Tough Financial and Operational Problems, Now!


 

The Fundamental Principle of our Turnaround & Restructuring practice:

Our interests are aligned with our clients’.

EM Capital, Inc. is one of the few leading, internationally recognized turnaround management and restructuring firms that actually manifests the principle of aligning the interests of key advisors with those of the client.  We routinely negotiate performance or success-based engagements based on achieving measurable results.

 

Who we work for:

EM Capital Turnaround & Restructuring works for venture capital firms, private equity firms, high-net worth investors, institutions, agencies, lenders, landlords, boards, accountants, corporate and insolvency counsel and the senior management of entities facing critical financial and operational issues, often leading to limited capital resources, strained customer and financial community relations, liquidity problems and insolvency.

 

We have unique global capabilities:

Over the past five years we have built the largest network of global offices in major and emerging markets than any other independent turnaround management and restructuring firm.  We are uniquely capable of assisting clients with complex and urgent cross-border creditor and out-sourcing related situations.  Our global network of EM Capital offices, each led by a bi-lingual senior managing director provides important local market expertise and on-the-ground running problem-solving skills.

 

Clients usually don’t hire us soon enough:

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.

 

Just a few of our typical services:

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 transactions

·          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 and manage 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 virtually anywhere in the world within 12 hours, if requested.   Professionals are available on an hourly consulting or retained basis as required.

 

Staying Alive: Reducing Costs and Recovering Cash

EM Capital focuses its immediate attention to assisting stakeholders in preserving value and generating cash to provide the opportunity for recovery.  Rapid implementing of cash control and cost reduction is far more certain than rapidly increasing sales.  We evaluate and cut unnecessary recurring costs, perform staff reductions, investigate and recover 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.  Specializing 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 CEO, Seth R. Freeman, MBA, CIRA, leads the team of senior advisors with an average of 25 years experience as corporate and government agency senior executives, asset managers, interim senior managers and investors in distressed businesses, troubled real estate investments, start-ups and international financial and operational improvement managers.

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 member 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.

EM Capital, Inc.

International Turnaround and Restructuring Advisors

51 Moraga Way, Suite 204

Orinda, CA 94563

U.S.A Tel: (925) 376-8700

  Fax: (925) 955-1652
U.S.A. Toll Free: (800) 933-1850

London Tel: 44-20-70784081
Mexico City Tel: 52-55-53515288

 srfreeman@emcapital.com

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