Mr. Franklind Davis Lea

Franklind D. Lea, CIRA is a managing director with J.S. Held LLC in Alpharetta, Ga., and has more than three decades of experience working on complex business, financial and real estate matters. His experience includes 17 years as a commercial lender, credit officer and commercial real estate appraiser, and an additional 17 years as the founder and president of Tactical Financial Consulting, where he specialized in litigation and restructuring support for third parties. He also served as principal of The Brattle Group. Mr. Lea has been a senior lender, credit officer and special-assets manager at a commercial financial services company and commercial bank, and he has experience as a commercial real estate appraiser, credit manager and lending officer. He has worked in nearly 40 states on a broad array of assignments spanning many industries and business types, most of it on deals valued between $2 million and $20 million. Mr. Lea is a nationally recognized expert in the areas of bankruptcy, credit and lending, financial restructuring, insolvency, interest rates and workouts, and he is one of only approximately 1,000 individuals in the U.S. designated as a Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor. He is routinely called upon to serve as an expert witness and speak at industry conferences on insolvency, interest rates, real estate, risk-assessment and valuation issues, and professional journals have published his articles on these topics. Mr. Lea sits on ABI?s Board of Directors and is an At-Large member of its Executive Committee. He also is a former co-chair of ABI?s Asset Sales Committee and serves on the advisory board of ABI?s Judge Alexander L. Paskay Memorial Bankruptcy Seminar. In addition, he is a member of the Turnaround Management Association and the Association for Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors. Mr. Lea received his B.S. in management and his M.B.A. from Florida State University, and a Master?s degree in real estate and urban analysis from the University of Florida.