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Turnaround and Restructuring Agribusiness Transportation & Logistics
Harney Partners was called in to provide leadership at the Company and, ultimately, to wind down operations and liquidate assets
Harney Partners was called in to provide leadership at the Company and, ultimately, to wind down operations and liquidate assets

Company in Central CA Coast wine country provided trucking services to move grapes, bulk wine, and bottled wine for vineyards using 110 tankers, vans, reefer units and flatbed trailers. They…Read More

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Turnaround and Restructuring Agribusiness
Grain Distributor was found to be in a material over advance position after financial reporting errors were discovered by a new CFO. ​
Grain Distributor was found to be in a material over advance position after financial reporting errors were discovered by a new CFO. ​

Company had developed a program of high quality Organic & Non-GMO soybean seeds and a strong farmer network to serve very demanding international markets. However, it had significant turnover in…Read More

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Turnaround and Restructuring Retail & Consumer Products Transportation & Logistics
Harney Partners appointed CRO by Company’s Board of Directors to create and execute plan that ultimately led to successful liquidation of business
Harney Partners appointed CRO by Company’s Board of Directors to create and execute plan that ultimately led to successful liquidation of business

A central California-based company provided trucking services to move grapes, bulk wine, and bottled wine for vineyards using 110 tankers, vans, reefer units and flatbed trailers. The company also stored…Read More

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Turnaround and Restructuring Transportation & Logistics
Helped long haul and short haul trucking company address operating deficits and increase profitability of struggling areas of business.
Helped long haul and short haul trucking company address operating deficits and increase profitability of struggling areas of business.

$90MM long haul and short haul trucking company operating in seven Midwestern States with 5 transfer terminals suffered operating deficits and was behind in loan payments as well as employee…Read More

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Turnaround and Restructuring Transportation & Logistics
Provided turnaround services to specialty transportation company to reduce costs and resume profitability.
Provided turnaround services to specialty transportation company to reduce costs and resume profitability.

$114MM transportation provider of specialty materials throughout the U.S. operated from 15 terminals and corporate offices with 680 employees and serving 136 active customers, where the top ten represented 80%…Read More

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Forensics and Litigation Technology
Forensic Audit Uncovers Fraud by Tech Company CEO
Forensic Audit Uncovers Fraud by Tech Company CEO

Harney Partners was engaged by a law firm on behalf of an Investigations Committee of the Board of Directors for a Texas-based technology company. The Board was suspicious that their…Read More

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Turnaround and Restructuring Manufacturing & Distribution
Restructured and implemented cash flow efficiencies for specialty furniture importer
Restructured and implemented cash flow efficiencies for specialty furniture importer

Harney Partners was engaged to improve the reporting of the cash available to an established specialty furniture importer that supplied furniture to  big box retailers. In 2021, following the COVID-19…Read More

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Bankruptcy Advisory Restaurants, Hospitality & Leisure Retail & Consumer Products
Celis Brewery Completes Recapitalization Through Successful Chapter 11
Celis Brewery Completes Recapitalization Through Successful Chapter 11

Celis Brewery, the original craft brewer in Austin, Texas, was founded in 1991. After a sale to Miller Brewing Company in the mid ’90s, the company shut down and was…Read More

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Fiduciary Services Financial Services Real Estate
Multi-State $400 Million Fraud Ranked as Top Twenty Ponzi Scheme in U.S. History
Multi-State $400 Million Fraud Ranked as Top Twenty Ponzi Scheme in U.S. History

The principals behind the fraud, using approximately 40 different entities, obtained approximately $400 million in investments through a pattern of misdirection and outright fabrication regarding the nature and existence of…Read More

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Turnaround and Restructuring Healthcare & Life Sciences
Led successful out of court restructuring of large, multi-office OB-GYN physician practice
Led successful out of court restructuring of large, multi-office OB-GYN physician practice

The 50 year old Practice comprised forty physicians, seventeen separate legal entities, eight locations in Houston and surrounds and generated in excess of $40Mil in revenue  per annum. In it’s…Read More

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Transaction Advisory Turnaround and Restructuring Retail & Consumer Products
Completed a complex tri-party refinancing for struggling sports retailer
Completed a complex tri-party refinancing for struggling sports retailer

The Company was a producer of non-apparel merchandise under license agreements with most professional sports leagues and a large number of colleges, theme parks, restaurant chains and cruise lines. They…Read More

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Bankruptcy Advisory Manufacturing & Distribution
Arandell Corp Emerges from Bankruptcy with $31M Sale to Saothair Capital Partners
Arandell Corp Emerges from Bankruptcy with $31M Sale to Saothair Capital Partners

100-year-old commercial catalog printer, the third largest in the U.S., with revenues exceeding $80MM and pre-petition loan and lease obligations of $50MM. The company ran into setbacks related to the…Read More

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Fiduciary Services Business Services Financial Services
Fraudulent Mortgage Scheme Stopped by Regulators
Fraudulent Mortgage Scheme Stopped by Regulators

The two receivership entities were mortgage processing companies in Houston, Texas, or “Money Service Businesses” (as defined by Texas Statute), with approximately 18,000 customers.  Both companies were sued by the…Read More

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Fiduciary Services Engineering & Construction Real Estate
Longstanding Shareholder Dispute Resolved Through Appointment of State Court Receiver
Longstanding Shareholder Dispute Resolved Through Appointment of State Court Receiver

Two families who each owned 50% of five (5) different entities related to the operation of a 359-acre gravel quarry operation and residential concrete construction company near San Antonio, Texas…Read More

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Fiduciary Services Manufacturing & Distribution
Family Business Sold After Dispute with Multinational Technology Company
Family Business Sold After Dispute with Multinational Technology Company

Austin Baccus Company (ABC) was the exclusive online domestic retailer of refurbished Dyson vacuum cleaners through its warehouse showroom and multiple online sales channels, including eBay and Amazon, as well…Read More

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Fiduciary Services Technology
Going-Concern Sale of Sole Service Provider to Dell Technologies
Going-Concern Sale of Sole Service Provider to Dell Technologies

The client company was strategically located adjacent to Dell Technologies, in Round Rock, Texas, and provided 100% of Dell’s flat panel monitor warranty repairs.  The company was a subsidiary of…Read More

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Bankruptcy Advisory Healthcare & Life Sciences
Helped large memory care provider successfully navigate complex Chapter 11
Helped large memory care provider successfully navigate complex Chapter 11

A Dallas-based designer, developer, owner and operator of 41 stand-alone memory care communities in nine states filed for Chapter 11 protection in order to preserve value and jobs and to…Read More

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Turnaround and Restructuring Healthcare & Life Sciences
Provided financial advisory for the orderly wind down of a physician practice
Provided financial advisory for the orderly wind down of a physician practice

A multi-location medical group specializing in diagnostic and interventional radiology requested assistance in an orderly wind down of the practice, including resolution of: Current and future payment obligations to active…Read More

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Bankruptcy Advisory Healthcare & Life Sciences
Supported one of nation's largest single specialty PPM companies through Chapter 11
Supported one of nation's largest single specialty PPM companies through Chapter 11

One of the nation’s largest single-specialty physician practice management (“PPM”) companies expanded by acquiring operating assets of ophthalmic practices across the U.S.   The company developed comprehensive eye care networks by…Read More

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Turnaround and Restructuring Healthcare & Life Sciences
Served as Interim CFO for global PE-backed Pharmaceutical Company
Served as Interim CFO for global PE-backed Pharmaceutical Company

A PE-backed global provider of clinical packaging/labeling, storage and logistics, clinical trial material procurement, and program design was experiencing significant financial issues. They had exhausted their revolver, were short on…Read More

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Fiduciary Services Financial Services
Fraudulent Investment Scheme Stopped by Regulators
Fraudulent Investment Scheme Stopped by Regulators

James Warr, through seventeen (17) affiliates entities was perpetrating an investment fraud on unsuspecting investors and was in the infancy of a Ponzi scheme when he was sued by the…Read More

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Process Optimization & Operations Advisory Manufacturing & Distribution
Led comprehensive assessment of the order to shipping process across all product families
Led comprehensive assessment of the order to shipping process across all product families

A multi-site capital and process-intensive paper products company that provides quality paper for various print and converting customers was facing multiple challenges related to long lead times, efficiency issues, and…Read More

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Turnaround and Restructuring Retail & Consumer Products
Led comprehensive turnaround of premium hair and skin products business.
Led comprehensive turnaround of premium hair and skin products business.

A minority-owned CPG business that provides premium hair and skin care products to the multi-cultural consumer was facing multiple challenges. Launched in the founders’ garage in 2014, the company grew…Read More

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Bankruptcy Advisory Real Estate
Former 110-acre Motorola Site Sold in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Auction During Pandemic
Former 110-acre Motorola Site Sold in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Auction During Pandemic

Motorola’s 110-acre campus located six miles from downtown Austin and near Austin Bergstrom International Airport was largely abandoned and sat stagnant for more than a decade prior to purchase by…Read More

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Chief Restructuring Officer and President for 262-Room Austin Airport Hilton Hotel

A member of Harney Partners served as Chief Restructuring Officer and President of Austin Bergstrom Landhost Enterprises, Inc. (ABLE), a non-profit public facilities corporation acting as an instrumentality of the…Read More

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Bankruptcy Advisory Fiduciary Services Turnaround and Restructuring Energy Real Estate
Guided Offshore E&P Company Through Successful Exit from Bankruptcy as Chief Restructuring Officer
Guided Offshore E&P Company Through Successful Exit from Bankruptcy as Chief Restructuring Officer

A member of Harney Partners (Greg Milligan) was appointed as Chief Restructuring Officer of Galveston Bay Properties, LLC, an E&P company with approximately 20,000 acres under lease from the State of Texas…Read More

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Interim Management Turnaround and Restructuring Automotive & Industrials
Automotive parts supplier avoids bankruptcy and lenders recover 100% of balances
Automotive parts supplier avoids bankruptcy and lenders recover 100% of balances

Harney Partners was engaged in a variety of advisory roles from 2007 to 2014 during a very tenuous time for this aluminum die casting company, helping them navigate the 2008…Read More

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Turnaround and Restructuring Transportation & Logistics
Specialty packaging and logistics company restores profitability and is recapitalized
Specialty packaging and logistics company restores profitability and is recapitalized

A privately held transportation company in the business of packaging highly flammable and combustible products in the oil field service business was losing money, was in default with their senior…Read More

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Fiduciary Services Real Estate
Partnership Dispute Leads to Voluntary Liquidation of RV Parks and Manufactured Home Communities in Multiple States
Partnership Dispute Leads to Voluntary Liquidation of RV Parks and Manufactured Home Communities in Multiple States

Family members of an industry leading owner/operator of RV parks and manufactured home communities across the country became involved in a partnership dispute regarding four properties located in three different…Read More

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Bankruptcy Advisory Restaurants, Hospitality & Leisure
Harney Helps to Pioneer Unique Benefits of New Bankruptcy Rules for Serial Entrepreneur
Harney Helps to Pioneer Unique Benefits of New Bankruptcy Rules for Serial Entrepreneur

Harney Partners was retained by serial entrepreneur who was facing the triggering of large personal guarantees on real estate leases and mortgages related to a chain of dine-in movie theaters…Read More

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