Bankruptcy

The Michel-Shaked Group’s Israel Shaked, and Brad Orelowitz published an article in the February 2022 issue of the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal discussing beta, the measure of a company’s systematic risk, and its application to valuation. The article describes how to calculate beta and situations...

Retained by the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Chesapeake Energy Corporation, The Michel-Shaked Group led by Israel Shaked and Stephen Kempainen, provided consulting and expert testimony regarding the valuation of Chesapeake Energy Corporation upon the company’s expected emergence from bankruptcy. The case was tried...

In a bankruptcy, financial projections play a significant role in many different aspects of the process. In many cases, the Court’s preference is to rely on management’s projections, as management usually has vast experience within the company. However, there are instances where projections produced...

The Michel-Shaked Group’s Israel Shaked (Managing Director) and Paul Dionne (Manager) discuss what quantitative bankruptcy prediction models are and how the discretion given to the financial expert applying these methodologies can lead to the abuse of the models in both bankruptcy and tax litigation settings....

The valuation of relatively healthy companies involves many unknowns. However, the valuation of distressed companies includes additional elements of uncertainty. The Michel-Shaked Group’s Israel Shaked (Managing Director) and Brad Orelowitz (Senior Vice President) published an article in the Jan/Feb 2018 issue of the TMA’s Journal...