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Gordian Group

Gordian Group is a leading national investment bank specializing in resolving distressed situations and multi-faceted challenges for clients across a wide range of industries. Gordian Group is consistently cited by Turnarounds & Workouts and The Deal as one of the nation’s top restructuring firms.

Founded in 1988, Gordian Group is an affiliate of Allied Capital (NYSE:ALD). With a nationwide practice spanning across all industry lines, Gordian Group’s analytical and tactical expertise is second to none. Its professionals are experienced negotiators, particularly in pressure situations, with an arsenal of skills and tactics honed under the most difficult of circumstances. Services include:

• advising companies in connection with financial restructurings;
• providing M&A services in connection with distressed and/or complex situations;
• providing companies and boards of directors with advice on enhancing equity value;
• raising equity and debt capital;
• rendering fairness, solvency, and valuation opinions; and
• litigation support/expert witness services.

Representative Engagements:

• Ben & Jerry's - Gordian Group advised Ben & Jerry’s in its award-winning sale to Unilever.
• Enron - Gordian Group currently advises a major financial institution with significant exposure to Enron.
• Farmland Industries - Gordian Group advised Smithfield Foods, the successful buyer of significant assets in Farmland’s chapter 11.
• LTV Steel - Gordian Group recouped a bank’s $225 million securitization exposure after the court declined to recognize the “bankruptcy remote” receivables vehicle.
• Mississippi Chemical - Gordian Group financially reorganized the company in chapter 11.
• Vlasic Foods - Gordian Group advised, and testified for, the Trustee for Vlasic Foods Liquidating Trust in litigation against Campbell Soup.

Other Publications:

• Gordian professionals Peter Kaufman and Henry Owsley published the definitive work in the field Distressed Investment Banking: To the Abyss and Back in May 2005.