Genesis
CAPITAL MARKETS · M&A · RESTRUCTURING · SPECIALIZED ADVISORY

A Boutique Firm with a Global ReachBuilt to advise companies, sponsors, lenders, and creditors in the U.S. and abroad

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ABOUT GENESIS

Genesis specializes in providing financial advisory and investment banking services to corporate, investor, and fiduciary clients.

Our professional advisors deliver expertise and counsel grounded in actual practice, enhanced by our global perspective and relationships.

ALIGNMENT
Independent advisory across the capital structure
Senior Team
Senior-level professionals in every engagement
Interdisciplinary
Bankers, traders, investors, consultants, and operators from respected multinational institutions
ADVISORY SERVICES

Four business lines, one team

Genesis delivers advice to clients across the deal life cycle — performing, stressed, and distressed.

Capital Markets

Primary Credit

We provide debt capital advisory services to corporate borrowers (including sponsor-owned businesses) seeking to refinance or raise new financing — including asset-backed, cash flow, and specialty financing credit facilities.

Financing Types
  • ▪ Acquisitions
  • ▪ Dividend recapitalizations
  • ▪ Management buyouts
  • ▪ Project finance
  • ▪ Refinancings
  • ▪ Single Case and Portfolio Litigation Financing
Secondary Credit

We facilitate the full or partial sale and purchase of performing and non-performing loans and loan portfolios, on behalf of bank and private credit lenders.

Why Lenders Sell
  • ▪ Change in underlying credit risk
  • ▪ Difficulty refinancing or exiting current investment
  • ▪ Portfolio concentration
  • ▪ Shift in portfolio mix strategy
SELECTED ENGAGEMENTS
Project Alpha
Construction Services

Incumbent bank tapped Genesis to find a new lending partner for a borrower, as part of a lower-middle-market asset-based refinancing.

Advisor to the Borrower
Project Baxter
Specialty Finance

Led concurrent refinancing and secondary loan sale process for specialty finance opportunity backed by litigation claims.

Advisor to the Selling Lenders
Project Charlie
IT SERVICES

Conducted targeted bank and private credit outreach to refinance a sponsor-backed portfolio company for general improvement in terms.

Advisor to the Borrower
Project Foxtrot
INDUSTRIALS

Assisted founder-owned manufacturing business in the refinancing process of its existing bank debt in forbearance.

Advisor to the Borrower
EQUITY CAPITAL ADVISORY

We advise companies, founders, and sponsors on equity capital raises and all aspects of deal execution by developing tailored models, employing proprietary databases, and leveraging our team's combined cross-border relationships and expertise.

Global Reach
  • ▪ Asia
  • ▪ Europe
  • ▪ North America
  • ▪ South America

Securities offered through Genesis Alternative Strategies LLC, Member FINRA/SIPC. 

Mergers & Acquisitions

SELL-SIDE and BUY-SIDE ADVISORY

Drawn from bulge-bracket and elite boutique investment banks, our professionals bring decades of global sell-side and buy-side experience, leading corporate acquisitions, divestitures, and carve-outs in both performing and special situations.

CAPABILITIES
  • ▪ Broad, limited, and targeted auctions
  • ▪ Cross-border transactions
  • ▪ Divestitures and carve-outs
  • ▪ Exclusive negotiations
  • ▪ Valuation
BREADTH OF EXPERTISE

Genesis' bankers thrive in complex business contexts.  Our team's specialized experience includes transactions in normal course M&A, distressed and Section 363 sales, and other special situations, across a broad range of industries.

SELECTED SECTORS
  • ▪ Consumer and Retail
  • ▪ Healthcare
  • ▪ Industrials
  • ▪ Power, Energy, and Infrastructure
  • ▪ Technology

Securities offered through Genesis Alternative Strategies LLC, Member FINRA/SIPC. 

Turnaround & Restructuring

LENDER AND CREDITOR ADVISORY

Out-of-court, we advise lenders and ad hoc groups, in stressed and distressed situations, from forbearance to amendment discussions, or to the evaluation of strategic alternatives.

In-court, we guide lenders, bidders, creditors, and committees, through the bankruptcy process. Our advisors pioneered supplementing and leading committee-side sale processes and possess some of the foremost experience in advising official bankruptcy committees (over 100 representations).

OUT-OF-COURT CAPABILITIES
  • ▪ Amendment and forbearance negotiations
  • ▪ Assessments of liquidity, business plan, and valuation
  • ▪ Secondary loan sales
  • ▪ Strategic alternatives, including refinancing, M&A, and restructuring
IN-COURT REPRESENTATIONS
  • ▪ Ad hoc committees of lenders, creditors, and litigation claimants
  • ▪ Debtor-in-Possession (DIP) lenders
  • ▪ Official bankruptcy committees
  • ▪ Secured lenders
  • ▪ Stalking horse bidders
COMPANY AND DEBTOR ADVISORY

Out-of-court, Genesis acts as financial advisor and/or investment banker to offer critical assistance to companies that are under-performing or experiencing crisis or change.

In-court, we leverage our substantial Chapter 11 experience to assist Debtor-in-Possession clients with value maximization through the reorganization of assets and liabilities, full or partial sales, and/or the procurement of new capital.  We negotiate with creditors and other parties in interest, and provide testimony on behalf of our clients and their Plans of Reorganization.

OUT-OF-COURT CAPABILITIES
  • ▪ Independent director services
  • ▪ Lender and stakeholder negotiations
  • ▪ Management services, including Chief Restructuring Officer
  • ▪ Strategic alternatives evaluation and business plan development
IN-COURT SERVICES
  • ▪ Liquidity management
  • ▪ Marketing and structuring of DIP financing
  • ▪ Plan of Reorganization and Disclosure Statement
  • ▪ Pre-filing preparation and post-filing reporting
  • ▪ Section 363 sale process
SELECTED ENGAGEMENTS
Red Lobster
CONSUMER AND RETAIL

Advised the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy process, which resulted in a restructuring of the go-forward business with ownership transferring to the existing lenders.

Advisor to the Creditors Committee
Compac USA
INDUSTRIALS

Acted as valuation expert to the Debtor in support of its Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization.

Valuation Expert to the Debtor
The Villages Healthcare
HEALTHCARE

Advised the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy process, resulting in a sale of the business to a third party.

Advisor to the Creditors Committee
Project Tower
CONSUMER AND RETAIL

Advised the Company on the wind-down of its foreign retail and wholesale business.

Advisor to the Company

Specialized Advisory

Fiduciary Services

As a trusted fiduciary, we perform litigation, wind-down and liquidating trustee or plan administrator services, often acting as financial advisor to the trust.
In addition to collaborating with stakeholders to maintain access to relevant information and key parties, Genesis assists with drafting and negotiating the trust or plan administrator agreement, retaining trust professionals, and overseeing litigation and settlement negotiations.

Example Services
  • ▪ Administration of plan distributions
  • ▪ Asset recovery and sale efforts
  • ▪ Financial and tax reporting oversight
  • ▪ Reconciliation and liquidation of claims
  • ▪ Safeguarding estate assets and data
  • ▪ Tax documentation for beneficiaries
EXPERT SERVICES

We resolve complicated accounting and valuation disputes for investors, shareholders, and corporate boards.

Example Services
  • ▪ Enterprise and transaction valuation
  • ▪ Investor and shareholder litigation
  • ▪ Corporate board engagements
FORENSIC ADVISORY
We investigate fraud, trace assets and funds, scrutinize corporate governance and insider and related-party transactions, and deliver our findings through declarations, expert reports, and testimony at deposition and trial.
Example Services
  • ▪ Asset tracing and recovery
  • ▪ Fraudulent transfer investigation
  • ▪ Transfer pricing analysis
Litigation Support

We provide analytical, operational, and litigation finance expertise to law firms, fiduciaries, corporations, and other parties to contentious litigation; with a particular focus on mass tort and class actions.

Example Services
  • ▪ Discovery, research, and settlement negotiation
  • ▪ Expert witness testimony
  • ▪ Valuation and solvency opinions
SELECTED ENGAGEMENTS
Cano Health Litigation Trust
Healthcare

Conducted sale process of holdover pharmacy distribution assets and provided financial advisory and litigation support services to the trust.

Advisor to the Trust
ECL Creditor Trust
IT SERVICES

Advisor to the litigation trust responsible for managing and distributing proceeds and litigating disputes.

Advisor to the Trust
Hello Bello Litigation Trust
CONSUMER AND RETAIL

Provided financial advisory and trustee services to the trust, with asset recovery efforts resulting in full administrative expense distributions to a previously insolvent estate.

Trustee and Advisor to the Trust
Project Golf
LITIGATION SUPPORT

Litigation finance and support services to consumer plaintiff representative and legal counsel for portfolio of foreign consumer litigation.

Advisor to the Plaintiffs
LEADERSHIP

Senior team, by design

Seasoned professionals, with cross-border experience in investment banking, restructuring, private credit, venture capital, and operations.  

Edward Kim
Partner
ekim@gencp.com
Jorge González
Partner
jgonzalez@gencp.com
Andre Artidiello
Director
aartidiello@gencp.com
Eric Méndez
Director
emendez@genalts.com
Ivan Radi
Vice President
iradi@gencp.com
EK
Edward Kim
Partner
Mr. Kim has over 25 years of experience across investment banking, restructuring, healthcare and real estate operations.

Prior to joining Genesis as a founding member, Mr. Kim was a partner at Force 10 Partners and Province, and previously worked at Fresenius Medical Care, Alvarez & Marsal, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, and Goldman Sachs.

Mr. Kim earned a BA in Economics from Columbia University.
ekim@gencp.com
JG
Jorge González
Partner
Mr. González has over 20 years of experience across investment banking, restructuring, transaction advisory, and public accounting.

Prior to joining Genesis as a founding member, Mr. González was a partner at Force 10 Partners and Province, and previously worked at Credit Suisse, Ernst & Young, and Deloitte.

Mr. González earned an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, as well as a BS in Accounting, a BS in French, and a BS in International Studies from The Pennsylvania State University.

Mr. González is a CPA (Inactive) and completed Level II of the CFA examination.
jgonzalez@gencp.com
AA
Andre Artidiello
Director

Mr. Artidiello has over 10 years of experience across investment banking, credit investing, and restructuring.

Prior to joining Genesis, Mr. Artidiello worked at Force 10 Partners, H.I.G. Capital, Province, and HSBC Securities.

Mr. Artidiello earned a BA in Finance from Florida International University.

aartidiello@gencp.com
EM
Eric Méndez
Director
Mr. Méndez has over 20 years of experience across investment banking, restructuring, corporate finance, development finance, and management consulting.

Prior to joining Genesis, Mr. Méndez was the CFO at Tailored Industry, and previously worked at SMBC, BlackRock, PepsiCo, Moelis & Company, International Finance Corporation, Merrill Lynch, and Accenture.

Mr. Méndez earned an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BA in Economics from The University of Chicago.
emendez@genalts.com
IR
Ivan Radi
Vice President
Mr. Radi has 10 years of experience across investment banking and restructuring.

Prior to joining Genesis, Mr. Radi worked at Force 10 Partners, Canaccord Genuity, and JP Morgan.

Mr. Radi earned a BA in Finance from Florida International University.
iradi@gencp.com