SUCCESS STORIES

Banking & Specialty Commercial Finance

 

Our success has been considerable, including:

C.R.O. to largest commercial lender to vending industry.
Experienced three consecutive years of profit after sizable losses due to substantial increases in delinquency. Streamlined credit, collections, & loss recovery units. Formed Senior Credit Committee & strengthened underwriting policies. Reduced delinquency from over 20% to less than 5% in 18 months. Restructured bank group and financing, eliminated forbearance conditions/agreement, and established completely unsecured, term/revolver facility at LIBOR plus 1.5.

 

Numerous successful and complex field exams, collateral audits, and credit file reviews for a wide variety of commercial borrowers in very diverse industry settings.

 

Commercial and industrial lending training curriculum custom developed and presented to a regional financial institution in excess of $12 billion in assets. Program was custom developed to help facilitate strategic goals and objectives to expand the C & I business, and to provide deeper inventory of skills and capabilities across a lender-base primarily experienced in CRE lending.

 

Financial advisory services to a variety of asset-based,
CRE and commercial lenders
Uncovered a complex $30 million borrowing base and financial reporting fraud that facilitated successful litigation and recovery from multiple parties. Discovered and documented complex $1.5 million embezzlement and reporting fraud that provided the basis for recovery litigation as well as a successful criminal prosecution of the perpetrator. Identified a $35 million borrowing base and reporting fraud for a wholesale distributor of consumer products. Numerous enterprise going concern valuations for credit file reviews and administration for a variety of businesses; upscale chain of hair salons, multi-location hotel ownership and management company, distributor of banking equipment and systems, several commercial contractors and construction firms. Facilitated numerous loan purchase and sale transactions for a variety of commercial debt facilities, CRE debt, and revolving lines of credit.

 

Our financial institution clients include:

 

Arvest Bank

Bank Midwest

Bank of The West

Cornerstone Bank

Enterprise Bank

Wittern Financial Services – Vending.com

Summit Financial Resources

Greystone Financial