Financial Restructuring Advisor Toisa is an industry leading OSV and deepsea tanker and bulk carrier operator The plunge in offshore drilling activity resulted in a depression for offshore supply vessel (OSV’s) employment The decline in revenue made it impossible for the company to meet scheduled debt payments necessitating a restructuring of $1 billion of secured bank debt (ongoing)
Sale to Velocity Express CD&L (AMEX: CDV) is a leading customized full-service, time-critical ground delivery service. Scura Partners assisted CD&L in negotiations with Velocity Express (NASDAQ: VEXP) and rendered a fairness opinion. The Board of CD&L voted to approve the merger and an announcement was made July 5, 2006.
Sale to the Comvest Group VEXP’s special committee engaged Scura Partners to conduct a sale process in response to a management buyout proposal. VEXP filed a Chapter 11 three months later. Post filing, Scura Partners was engaged to represent the company in a 363 sale process which was successfully concluded with the acquisition of the company by ComVest.
Expert Witness Testimony Provided expert testimony to the U.S senate subcommittee on transportation Subject was to assess the impact on the U.S. airline industry of leveraged buy-out