1. Turnaround, Restructuring, Bankruptcy Specialist (VP level & Director Level), 6-7 years experience or more – New York
2. Infrastructure Analyst/Senior Analyst (Infrastructure Advisory firm) – Washington
3. Marketing/Communications Manager, 5 years plus experience – New York
4. HR Manager/Director (Generalist) 5-7 years experience, financial experience preferred – New York

If (and only if) you match the requirements and are interested in either of the roles above, drop me an email.

A contact is looking for projects which are ready to build and or to invest.

• The permissions / approvals, executive summary / business plan 1 page, in case of power projects PPA, etc. have to be ready to build the projects.
• Existing profitable plants, etc.

As usual, drop me a note if you have something to discuss.

A very interesting and novel piece by Nizar Alshubaily was written as a sequel to an equally brilliant piece by the same author. I’m extracting a few of my favourite lines, but the full article can be found here.

Countless firms no longer have the financials on their web sites and you have to register to request them. I had myself and 4 of my friends register with one and we have had no success so far. Far be it for me to assume that their financials are a disaster. Where one firm were making a least some attempt at financial transparency by disclosing their defaults  the management being interviewed on television couldn’t remember the total amount of default involved, they said they didn’t have that number immediately available.

Of course let us not forget the ever increasing number of CEOs who have suddenly left their organizations “for personal reasons”. One company claimed its CEO resigned to concentrate on more personal issues relating to spending more time with his family. Three months later his picture was in the paper as having become a CEO of another company. I feel sorry for his family; I guess they now know their dad thinks they’re boring.

Denial. Some call it The Ostrich Effect, an aversion to receiving negative information. If you don’t talk about it, it hasn’t happened; it will just go away on its own. It is based on the myth of the Ostrich burying its head IN the sand to avoid danger. Not true, the Ostrich places its head ON the sand to relax its neck muscles and hide from predators. Why so many otherwise intelligent people still use this analogy is beyond me. If the Ostrich buried its head, it would die from lack of air.

Once again, the full article can be found here.

Private Companies

• We seek private companies with a minimum of USD$2 million in EBITDA.
• We are open to all sectors and geography.
• If your company is not yet cash flow positive we can provide a legally binding comittment to invest all the money you need once you  are listed. You can then leverage that into an IPO/RTO which we can facilitate as well.

Public Listed Companies

We seek listed public companies and the investment criteria list adopted by us is as follows:

• You can achieve significant public announcement milestones during the developmental period.
• You determine when you take the capital as and when you need it.
• You use the proceeds to grow your business and your EBITDA.
• Your funds are spent over a developmental period.

If you believe you fit our funding criteria a review and analysis of your business plan will be required as the next step. Please contact me directly.

I am in contact with an industry pioneer that controls the bid process, compliance, due diligence, and facilitates life settlement transactions for insurance companies, agents, registered representatives, and their affiliated broker/dealers.

Currently some policies are not receiving bids due to tight credit markets and lack of liquidity from institutional funders, creating a temporary arbitrage opportunity. This allows policies to be cherry picked and purchased at substantial discounts just above cash surrender value. They currently have a portfolio of 43 policies, w/ face value of $155M, and average age 77 that can be purchased for about $7M.

Any interest? Contact me now. This is a very short-term temporary opportunity.