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Seasoned Turnaround Professional, Mike Bergthold, Joins Stapleton

08.14.20

Stapleton Group is pleased to announce that Mike Bergthold joined the team as a Managing Director to support increasing demand for the firm’s comprehensive strategic advisory and restructuring services. As one of the largest independent providers of financial advisory and professional fiduciary services in the Western U.S., Stapleton has completed more than 250 engagements exceeding […]

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Stapleton Group Expands Team in Response to Strong Demand

05.27.20

Stapleton Group announced it has expanded its team with three key hires and promoted Jake Diiorio to managing director. Michael Husted has joined Stapleton as a director specializing in operations; Joan Hadeed as associate director, Financial Advisory Services; and Emily Chen as associate director, Accounting Services. Stapleton, one of the largest independent providers of financial […]

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Getting Lenders out of Non-performing Hotels

10.31.18

Receivership Sale – Better than Hotel Foreclosures Non-performing hotels can cause unique challenges for their lenders when asbestos is present. Foreclosing is unattractive due to the threat of future environmental liability risk for all parties on the property’s chain of title. A Receivership Sale, however, provides a path to recovery without the future environmental liability risk. From Non-Performing […]

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Resuscitating Troubled Healthcare Companies

09.25.18

Resuscitating Troubled Healthcare Companies As receivers and turnaround consultants, our engagements span a variety of industries.  Lately, we have been getting more calls from banks and attorneys about troubled healthcare companies.  With the healthcare industry comprising 18% of GDP (Statista), and healthcare companies often lacking sophisticated management systems, we expect this trend to continue. Recent Healthcare Results […]

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No End in Sight for Real Estate Plight

06.27.18

As FOR LEASE / FOR SALE signs continue to proliferate retail properties across the U.S., creditors are asking us: What can we do to maximize returns from troubled retail real estate secured loans?  In our two decades of professional experience representing lenders with troubled loans, we’ve learned that the best outcomes generally result from early actions: […]

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Northwest Receivership & Insolvency Professionals Forum

06.5.18

David Stapleton was a panelist at the 2018 Northwest Receivership and Insolvency Professionals Forum in Seattle, Washington.  Lane Powell, PC sponsored the event designed for receivers, Chapter 11 trustees, plan administrators and bankers. Multiple panels were presented covering the challenges in receivership administration and evolving receivership statutes in the Pacific Northwest. Stapleton presented “Receiverships and Bankruptcies: When […]

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Financial Advisory for Lender with Troubled Borrower

05.23.18

How a Bank Maximized its Recovery … without Repo’ing a Yacht Our goal for every engagement we undertake, ranging from financial advisory to ABCs to receiverships, is to unravel the subject company’s financial information to facilitate informed, corrective action.  What do you think are some of our more surprising discoveries during the unraveling?  In this […]

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Stapleton Group Continues to Sponsor AbilityFirst

02.21.18

Stapleton Group invites you to join us in celebrating another year in support of the AbilityFirst Stroll & Roll.  The annual event will be held on Sunday, April 8, 2018 at the Los Angeles State Historic Park. AbilityFirst provides life-changing employment, recreational and socialization special needs programs for adults and children with developmental disabilities to help […]

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The Receivership Obstacle Course

11.1.17

Owning the Obstacle Course The death knell for a leading specialty e-commerce company was its failure to face its obstacles head-on.  Management didn’t reduce operating expenses in line with an industry-wide downturn in sales.  Lengthy litigation with its lender depleted cash flow, resulting in a bankruptcy filing that was dismissed.  The bank sought the appointment […]

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Stapleton Named Assignee in ABC of PART

08.1.17

Stapleton Group has been engaged as assignee in the ABC of Pacific Aerospace Resources & Technologies (PART), a leading supplier to the aviation industry offering a full range of aircraft MRO services.  The Victorville-based PART is an ARC Aerospace Industries Company and Boeing Fleet Services Partner.

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