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Turnaround & Restructuring
Perspective on turnaround & restructuring, from the senior people who do the work.
Turnaround & RestructuringThe 13-Week Cash Flow Forecast, Explained
A plain-English guide to the 13-week cash flow forecast — what it is, why it is the single most important tool in a turnaround, how a rolling weekly model is built and used, and what separates a forecast a lender will trust from one it will not.
Higher Education AdvisoryThe Enrollment Cliff Meets the Balance Sheet
A former university president on the board-level turnaround playbook for colleges facing the enrollment cliff and balance-sheet pressure at the same time — the early-warning signals, the financial discipline, and the governance decisions that keep a mission-driven institution solvent.
Turnaround & RestructuringMost companies wait too long to call. Here's the moment they should have.
Most owners call a turnaround firm only after the decision has been made for them. Here are the financial, operational, and crisis warning signs — and the moment to act while you still have options.
Turnaround & RestructuringWhat a Century of Turnaround Work Taught Us About Lenders
Over a century of combined turnaround experience on how seasoned restructuring teams earn lender trust, manage forbearance, read the special-assets desk, and turn a bank workout into a path forward for the middle market.
Turnaround & RestructuringFewer Banks, More Workouts: What Regional Consolidation Means for Borrowers in 2026
How 2026 regional-bank consolidation and the commercial debt maturity wall are reshaping middle-market borrower relationships, deal flow, and special-assets workout activity — and the three moves borrowers should make now.
Turnaround & RestructuringSection 363 Sales Without the Legalese
A plain-English guide to Section 363 sales — how the stalking-horse bid, the auction, the timeline, and the stakeholders work together to sell a distressed business free and clear and preserve enterprise value a slow liquidation would destroy.
Firm NewsInglewood Launches Higher Education Consulting Group to Support Colleges and Universities
Inglewood launches its Higher Education Services Group, led by Sam Steinhouse, to help colleges and universities navigate financial headwinds.
LeadershipThe Briefest of Management Philosophies
John Lane distills a career of turnaround work into a four-word management philosophy: life is too short. Here is why it holds up under pressure.
LeadershipListen to Your Angel: Coping With Business Failure and Despair
A reflection on the quiet epidemic of deaths of despair, and why business owners facing collapse are rarely as alone as they feel.
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