Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring

Praise for Creating Value through Corporate restructuring second editionProfessor Stuart Gilson's Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring, Second Edition is a 'must-have' reference guide for beginners and experienced professionals alike. The use of case studies illustrates critical elements of restructuring transactions, from valuation techniques (and their use as a tactical tool in bankruptcy), to the objectives and behavior of vulture investors in distressed situations, to the handling of competing claims to the treatment of tax loss carry forwards, and much more. Comprehensive, fact filled, and really useful!-Henry S. Miller, Chairman, Miller Buckfire & Co., LLCThis book is the gold standard for learning and teaching about corporate restructuring. Gilson's notes and cases are classic and contemporary. With the economic turbulence of recent years, Gilson's lessons here have only grown in importance.-Robert F. Bruner, Dean and Charles C. Abbott Professor of Business Administration, Darden School of Business, University of VirginiaGilson's book presents the Harvard case study method at its best-practical, insightful, and deliciously interesting. The competing perspectives of the CEOs, investment bankers, attorneys, investors, labor union leaders, and others who lived these cases day by day bring the stories to life. It's a great read.-Elizabeth Warren, Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Harvard UniversityFrom my perspective as one of the early pioneers and real-world practitioners of corporate restructuring and crisis management during the past three decades, Professor Gilson's work provides an important resource for professionals in the business, legal, and academic communities, as well as in the government sector.? ?-Tony Alvarez II, co-Chief Executive Officer, Alvarez & MarsalProfessor Gilson has once again captured the multilateral dynamism that is the core of rescue and restructuring throughout the world. This volume encompasses a broad spectrum of crises facing an enterprise and its management and, in each case, identifies the central players and their agendas, as well as an assessment of potential techniques or tools available for constructive resolution. It is a marvelous and thought-provoking read!-Corinne Ball, Partner, Jones Day