Ms. Cynthia Nelson

Cynthia A. Nelson is a senior managing director with FTI Consulting, Inc.?s Corporate Finance practice in Los Angeles, where she assists stakeholders in evaluating, developing and implementing turnaround plans and restructurings in both judicial and non-judicial circumstances. She has assisted debtors, investors, lenders and creditors? committees in analyzing and developing plans of reorganization, analyzing financing options and market rates of interest, evaluating asset-disposition and development plans to maximize value, conducting due diligence in connection with acquisition and financing, negotiating resolution of troubled credits, and providing litigation support and testimony in adversarial proceedings. In addition, Ms. Nelson has more than 30 years of experience in the real estate industry and specializes in advising stakeholders with interests in real estate. She has experience with development and oper-\nating companies, including those with interests in master planned communities, resorts, retail, office, hospitality, multi-family and mixed-use properties. Ms. Nelson has been involved in some of the largest and most notable real estate restructurings of the last decade, including advising the unsecured creditors committee for General Growth Properties, serving as the chapter 11 trustee in connection with South Edge LLC, aka Inspirada, a ?New Urbanism? community located in near Las Vegas, and serving as re-\nceiver for Talisker Club in Park City, Utah. She is advising the UCC with respect to real estate matters in the Toys ?R? Us bankruptcy as well. Prior to its acquisition by FTI Consulting, Ms. Nelson was a partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers? Business Recovery Services group. Before that, she was a senior associate\nof investment services at Jones Lang Wootton USA, an associate at Laventhol & Horwath in its Real Estate Advisory practice, and a real estate development assistant at Valencia Company/Newhall Land & Farming. Ms. Nelson is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars; she has been a panelist at programs sponsored by the ABI, the California Bankruptcy Forum, the Financial Lawyers Conference, the American College of Bankruptcy and other organizations. In addition, she co-chaired the 2016 National TMA Conference and has published articles in the ABI Journal, CPA Expert, Daily Bankruptcy Review,\nTurnaround Management, Socioeconomic Planning Sciences, Location and Stigma, Urban Land and\nFTI Journal. Ms. Nelson received her B.S. in urban planning from California State Polytechnic University and her M.B.A. and M.P.L. from the University of Southern California.