KCP Advisory Group merged consulting group Remuda Advisors into its operations and appointed Steven Bellah, Remuda Advisors’ founder, a senior managing director. In this role, Bellah will head KCP’s Dallas office and will also serve as the practice leader for the firm’s lender services group. He will contribute to KCP’s turnaround and restructuring practice and will be a senior presence developing and supporting the business, working across practice groups.

Bellah has more than 35 years of commercial finance, managerial and advisory experience. He is experienced in multiple aspects of investment management, ranging from new business origination and underwriting to distressed workouts. He has helped build and manage portfolios at institutions such as CIT, GE Capital and Wells Fargo Foothill.

Bellah has experience with complex transactions, including management buyouts, leveraged buyouts, turnarounds, debtor-in-possession financing, changes of control and special situations. His advisory and management expertise includes work in portfolio management, cash-flow management, profitability analysis, asset-based lending, subordinated capital, securitizations, leasing, term loans and factoring.

“The addition of Remuda Advisors provides KCP with an experienced group for the Dallas office and our lender services practice,” Jacen Dinoff, CEO of KCP Advisory Group, said. “Steve Bellah heading the Dallas office is a welcome and exciting addition for the entire senior team.”