Distress Investing: Principles and Technique
Distress Investing is a comprehensive guide to distress investing around the world. Increasingly, corporate rehabilitation is more interesting than corporate liquidation to governments and capital markets. And increasingly a mezzanine industry of mutual funds, hedge funds, and private investors has stepped up to fill the role of the traditional corporate lender. This book covers distress investing from theoretical underpinnings to practical applications. It features cases studies of some of the biggest distress investing situations including Kmart and Pacific Gas & Electric. From the recent changes to U.S. bankruptcy code to creditor rights to cash bailouts, readers will learn how to analyze distressed situations including pricing issues, arbitrage opportunities, political and tax disadvantages to deal expenses and reorganization funding plans. Written by the leading practitioner of distress investing and co-authored by teaching academics, this book is certain to become the bible on the topic for professional investors and students.
