by Al Davis | Jul 22, 2020 | In Our Experience
Over the past number of years, Revitalization Partners has taken the month of August away from our semi-weekly blog. This year, however, with the Covid-19 issues, moving from our Seattle office to coordaining working from home and making certain that we helped our...
by Al Davis | Jun 10, 2020 | Operations and Risk Management
Although it feels like an eternity, we are only three months into the coronavirus recession and most owners and lenders are still thinking in terms of “blend-and-extend”. Nevertheless, three kinds of real estate investments need more active...
by Al Davis | May 27, 2020 | In Our Experience
There is no doubt that real estate turnarounds can be laden with high emotion and drama. Dealing with that emotion and drama usually requires more experience and energy than all the technical challenges of real estate, no matter how good or bad the market...
by Al Davis | May 20, 2020 | RP Press Releases
Revitalization Partners is pleased to announce that Rod Stevens has joined the company as a Senior Director. Rod has worked in the structuring and restructuring of commercial real estate for almost 40 years and through four previous recessions. He has planned...
by Al Davis | May 13, 2020 | Lending, Banking and Financing
The term Zombie company was originally used by Japanese media around 1990, to describe companies with large historic debts that ultimately failed and resulted in the country’s 1990 market crash. The definition of Zombie companies relates to businesses...
by Al Davis | Apr 29, 2020 | Distressed Companies
COVID-19 has already decimated stock markets around the globe. On March 16th, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell nearly 3,000 points, the highest percentage decline since the infamous “Black Monday” crash of 1987. While the Dow has recovered by...
by Al Davis | Apr 15, 2020 | In Our Experience
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has made a farce out of that famous saying: “We’re from the government, we’re here to help.” And lest you believe that this blog is a rant about the President, there are enough of those to go around...
by Al Davis | Apr 1, 2020 | Receiverships and Bankruptcy
In the difficult circumstances we find ourselves today, many small companies, often backed by venture capital, private equity or significant debt financing, especially those which are not cash flow breakeven, at some point may face the prospect of running out...
by Al Davis | Mar 19, 2020 | In Our Experience
As the uncertainty related to the Coronavirus accelerates, we are beginning to see a certain amount of what appears to be panic among management of businesses affected by the Covid-19. A newspaper report in Miami, quoting leaked emails from Norwegian...
by Al Davis | Mar 4, 2020 | Operations and Risk Management
The Coronavirus (Cov-19) has now reached a new, critical phase where public health systems need to act decisively to contain the growth of the disease outside China. Clearly, the main emphasis is and should be on containing and mitigating the disease itself. But...
