A Boutique Firm with a Global ReachBuilt to advise companies, sponsors, lenders, and creditors in the U.S. and abroad
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.
Four business lines, one team
Genesis delivers advice to clients across the deal life cycle — performing, stressed, and distressed.
Capital Markets
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.
- ▪ Acquisitions
- ▪ Dividend recapitalizations
- ▪ Management buyouts
- ▪ Project finance
- ▪ Refinancings
- ▪ Single Case and Portfolio Litigation Financing
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.
- ▪ Change in underlying credit risk
- ▪ Difficulty refinancing or exiting current investment
- ▪ Portfolio concentration
- ▪ Shift in portfolio mix strategy
Incumbent bank tapped Genesis to find a new lending partner for a borrower, as part of a lower-middle-market asset-based refinancing.
Led concurrent refinancing and secondary loan sale process for specialty finance opportunity backed by litigation claims.
Conducted targeted bank and private credit outreach to refinance a sponsor-backed portfolio company for general improvement in terms.
Assisted founder-owned manufacturing business in the refinancing process of its existing bank debt in forbearance.
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.
- ▪ Asia
- ▪ Europe
- ▪ North America
- ▪ South America
Securities offered through Genesis Alternative Strategies LLC, Member FINRA/SIPC.
Mergers & Acquisitions
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.
- ▪ Broad, limited, and targeted auctions
- ▪ Cross-border transactions
- ▪ Divestitures and carve-outs
- ▪ Exclusive negotiations
- ▪ Valuation
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.
- ▪ Consumer and Retail
- ▪ Healthcare
- ▪ Industrials
- ▪ Power, Energy, and Infrastructure
- ▪ Technology
Securities offered through Genesis Alternative Strategies LLC, Member FINRA/SIPC.
Turnaround & Restructuring
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).
- ▪ Amendment and forbearance negotiations
- ▪ Assessments of liquidity, business plan, and valuation
- ▪ Secondary loan sales
- ▪ Strategic alternatives, including refinancing, M&A, and restructuring
- ▪ Ad hoc committees of lenders, creditors, and litigation claimants
- ▪ Debtor-in-Possession (DIP) lenders
- ▪ Official bankruptcy committees
- ▪ Secured lenders
- ▪ Stalking horse bidders
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.
- ▪ Independent director services
- ▪ Lender and stakeholder negotiations
- ▪ Management services, including Chief Restructuring Officer
- ▪ Strategic alternatives evaluation and business plan development
- ▪ 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
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.
Acted as valuation expert to the Debtor in support of its Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization.
Advised the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy process, resulting in a sale of the business to a third party.
Advised the Company on the wind-down of its foreign retail and wholesale business.
Specialized Advisory
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.
- ▪ 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
We resolve complicated accounting and valuation disputes for investors, shareholders, and corporate boards.
- ▪ Enterprise and transaction valuation
- ▪ Investor and shareholder litigation
- ▪ Corporate board engagements
- ▪ Asset tracing and recovery
- ▪ Fraudulent transfer investigation
- ▪ Transfer pricing analysis
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.
- ▪ Discovery, research, and settlement negotiation
- ▪ Expert witness testimony
- ▪ Valuation and solvency opinions
Conducted sale process of holdover pharmacy distribution assets and provided financial advisory and litigation support services to the trust.
Advisor to the litigation trust responsible for managing and distributing proceeds and litigating disputes.
Provided financial advisory and trustee services to the trust, with asset recovery efforts resulting in full administrative expense distributions to a previously insolvent estate.
Litigation finance and support services to consumer plaintiff representative and legal counsel for portfolio of foreign consumer litigation.
Senior team, by design
Seasoned professionals, with cross-border experience in investment banking, restructuring, private credit, venture capital, and 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.
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.
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.