The first lecture of the 2021-2022 academic year, “Distressed Investing”, will feature Larry Halperin. Larry will discuss the basics of distressed investing, the investment process, industry trends, and how to break into the industry.

Larry is a partner in Chapman's Bankruptcy and Restructuring Group, and Co-Office Leader of the firm's New York office. Larry focuses his practice on financial restructuring of distressed companies, high yield and distressed debt transactions, commercial lending transactions and mergers and acquisitions. He typically represents agents, private funds, investment banks and financial institutions in connection with their investments in, and financing transactions to, mid-cap companies. As part of his M&A practice, Larry has counseled clients who desire to acquire portfolio companies in need of restructuring by acquiring such companies' distressed debt. He has also counseled lenders in connection with an orderly exercise of remedies to achieve a practical, business oriented restructuring solution for the company and the acquiring fund. He also advises clients participating in the global secondary market for troubled and non-performing loans and claims. Larry speaks at industry conferences on distressed investing and restructuring topics and lectures to restructuring classes for undergraduate business and MBA students. He is also an adjunct professor teaching a corporate restructuring class at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and has co-authored three case studies. Larry received his B.B.A. from the University of Michigan and his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

This virtual event will be run as a Zoom Meeting with your questions/comments encouraged.