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2025 Revitalizers – Turnaround Advisors

Revitalizers are the experts who step in when pressure starts to build inside a business or a sector. They spot early signs of distress, help companies stabilize before challenges compound and give lenders a clearer view of what is truly at risk. In a market where warning lights can flip quickly, they are the steady hands that protect value and keep pathways to recovery open.

Restructuring Heat Map: Advisors Warn Distress Is Spreading Across Key Sectors

Distress is rising across commercial real estate, healthcare, trucking, consumer goods and more, driven by tariffs, rising costs, labor shortages and tighter lending. Top restructuring advisors share where the pressure is building, how companies are getting tripped up and what to expect as the market heads toward a busier 2026. Howard Brod Brownstein, CTP, President, The...

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2025 Revitalizers

Arch + Beam advises companies and creditors of all sizes on turnaround, restructuring and bankruptcy matters, including operational turnarounds, recapitalizations, sales and Chapter 11.

Avant Advisory, with seasoned
experience and credentialed
expertise, helps companies navigate complex situations involving mergers and acquisitions, financial and operational distress or fraud and financial manipulation.

Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Aurora Management Partners is a nationally recognized turnaround and restructuring consulting firm.

The Brownstein Corporation is a nationally recognized turnaround and crisis management firm serving companies in distress across industries and geographies.

Cedar Croft Consulting guided Ted’s Hot Dogs through a successful senior-debt refinancing, strengthening its balance sheet and positioning the company for long-term expansion.

Croley, Martell & Associates (CM&A) is a Cleveland-based business advisory firm focused on turnarounds, workouts and interim leadership for middle-market companies facing operational or financial distress.

J.S. Held integrates Phoenix
Management and MorrisAnderson
expertise to deliver tailored
solutions that stabilize and transform organizations experiencing growth, underperformance or
credit distress.

In March 2020, the state of Massachusetts appointed KCP Advisory Group, a trusted financial advisory and restructuring firm, to manage COVID-19’s impact on senior living facilities.

Keystone, a national Turnaround & Restructuring firm that emphasizes making a difference with clients, lenders and private equity firms, recently helped save a company facing a liquidity crisis, earning the TMA Turnaround of the Year and M&A Advisor Distressed M&A Deal of the Year awards.

PKF O’Connor Davies partners with companies in crisis to deliver restructuring, turnaround and transaction advisory services. The firm helped a trucking firm restructure operations and secure new financing.

Through an Article 9 restructuring, Second Wind was able to shed unsupportable MCA debt, while conveying the going concern assets to a strategic buyer – one of Hawaii’s leading last-mile carriers.

For 25 years, SSG has closed more than 500 special situations investment banking assignments for middle market companies and is a leader in the industry.

AEG PARTNERS

AEG Partners provides comprehensive turnaround solutions, combining decisive action and deep expertise to stabilize businesses, restore confidence and achieve lasting results during critical challenges.

BDO USA

BDO’s Turnaround and Restructuring practice works with distressed organizations and their creditors, to assess concerns and develop strategies to stabilize, create value and improve performance.

BIZCAP

Since 2002, BizCap has executed non-dilutive financing and restructuring transactions totaling approximately $4.5 billion across a diverse range of industries, geographies and financial structures.

CAMBRIDGE FINANCIAL SERVICES

Since 1985, Cambridge Financial Services has specialized in turnaround and financial advisory for middle-market companies, setting itself apart through proven expertise, customized strategies and measurable client outcomes.

CR3 PARTNERS

CR3 Partners, a national turnaround and performance improvement firm, assists, guides and collaborates with management teams and their constituents facing transition, opportunity, stress or distress.

DORSET PARTNERS

When success matters. Turnarounds, debt restructurings and capital for challenged businesses globally. Serving private, PE and public companies with revenues under $1 billion.

EISNER ADVISORY GROUP

EAG drives transformation by preserving jobs, boosting cash flow and enhancing shareholder value. The firm serves as advisors and interim C-Suite executives both in and out of court.

FOCUS MANAGEMENT GROUP USA

Focus Management Group USA, is a financial advisory and restructuring firm focusing on solving the cash flow and operational issues, deals with borrower lender relationship stress.

FTI CONSULTING

FTI Consulting’s Corporate Finance & Restructuring experts guide companies, creditors and boards worldwide through crisis, transactions and transformation by driving stability, negotiating solutions and maximizing stakeholder outcomes.

HOLLIS MEDDINGS GROUP

Turnaround firm specializing in owner-managed, lower middle market companies, offering a hands-on approach focused on preserving and restoring value while understanding situational challenges of working with owner-operators.

NEWPOINT ADVISORS CORPORATION

Newpoint Advisors delivers business and capital recovery by solving liquidity and operational issues for companies with revenue of $5 million to $50 million, utilizing tech-enabled advisors using Newpoint’s TAME methodology.

NOVO ADVISORS

Novo Advisors offers big-firm expertise with the agility of a boutique consultancy. Its listening-first approach is critical to their success supporting companies facing financial crises.

PROVINCE

Province is an award-winning advisory firm that helps clients navigate strategic, operational, financial and legal challenges with tailored solutions and global expertise.

RESTRUCTURING SOLUTIONS GROUP (RSG)

RSG, a financial advisor focused on debt restructure and placement, is industry and location agnostic working with middle market companies facing a variety of challenges.

SHERWOOD PARTNERS

As a premier financial advisory firm, Sherwood is the gold standard for Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors (ABCs), Liquidating Trust Agents and Receiverships.

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