Corporate Bankruptcy: Significant Issues for 2014 and Beyond

David Berliner has more than 25 years of experience in matters involving business restructurings, bankruptcy and insolvency, forensic investigations, bankruptcy litigation, transaction due diligence, accounting and auditing. 

Mr. Berliner has been involved in many bankruptcies representing unsecured creditors, debtors, and secured lenders. He has significant experience in bankruptcy and restructuring matters involving the retail, alternative energy, media, manufacturing, distribution and service industries. 

Mr. Berliner has provided testimony at depositions and in bankruptcy court on solvency issues and other bankruptcy issues. He has also assisted attorneys in analyzing financial documents, developing questions for depositions and trial testimony, evaluating testimony of witnesses, and preparing and responding to interrogatories. 

Mr. Berliner is a member of BDO’s Retail and Consumer Products practice and has written articles and been quoted in publications on both retail industry and bankruptcy & restructuring issues, and spoken at various educational conferences.

Mr. Darr has over 30 years of experience providing accounting, auditing and financial consulting services to business organizations, many of which are experiencing significant financial and operating difficulties. His experience also includes providing litigation support and expert testimony in bankruptcy and non-bankruptcy matters involving preference and fraudulent conveyance actions, professional liability claims, patent infringement, royalty and intellectual property disputes, construction claims, wrongful employment discharge and lender liability and business tort claims. He has testified in U.S. Bankruptcy Court proceedings in Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont on a wide range of bankruptcy matters.

Mr. Darr is a CPA. CIRA and CDBV; He also holds FINRA Series 7, 24 and 79 registrations.

Peter Kaufman is President of Gordian Group, the leading investment bank focused solely on advising corporations, private equity firms and government agencies in distressed situations.  He heads the firm's Restructuring and Distressed M&A practice. Peter  has been ranked the #1 investment banker nationally in financial restructuring.  He is co-author of the definitive book on distressed investment banking, Distressed Investment Banking: To The Abyss and Back, Beard Books, 2005