Mr. Michael S. Goodman

Michael S. Goodman is a founding partner and managing director of SSG Capital Advisors, LLC in Conshohocken, Pa. He is a nationally recognized leader in the restructuring industry with almost 20 years of experience in special-situations transactions, and he has closed approximately 40 bankruptcy transactions and 90 special situations transactions overall. Mr. Goodman's investment banking and fi- nancial advisory services include mergers and acquisitions for companies both in and out of bankruptcy, restructurings, the private placement of debt and equity, complex valuations, feasibility analyses and other bankruptcy-related analyses. His past clients include publicly traded and privately held middle- market and lower-middle-market companies across almost every industry sector. Mr. Goodman frequent- ly speaks on topics ranging from the state of the capital markets to alternatives available to companies in transition, and his articles have appeared in the Dow Jones Daily Bankruptcy Review, ABL Advisor, Philadelphia Business Journal and Financier Worldwide. Mr. Goodman began his investment banking career in 1995 as an analyst at Schroder & Co., then began focusing exclusively in the special-situations area in 1998 as part of Berwind Financial, a Philadelphia-based regional financial services firm. In 2001, he became a partner with SSG Capital Advisors, which was formed to acquire the special-situations in- vestment banking practice from Berwind. Mr. Goodman is president of the Philadelphia chapter of the Turnaround Management Association. He received his B.B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1995.