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Chad Kurtz

Managing Director
917-514-6500
ckurtz@force10partners.com
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Education

  • Williams College
  • New York University, Stern School of Business
  • Recent engagements

    • Rubio’s Coastal Grill
    • Tuesday Morning
    • Olympia Sports
    • Litigation Practice Group
    • Better Nutritionals
    • Storcentric
    • Mixed-use real estate development located in Buena Park, CA.
    • YogaWorks
    • South Coast Behavioral Health
    • PME Funds

    From the newsroom

    • Force 10 Retained by Refreshing USA in Connection with their Chapter 11 Reorganization
    • The Original Mowbray’s Tree Service Inc. has retained Force 10 Partners to provide a Chief Restructuring Officer for its Chapter 11 reorganization.
    • The Unsecured Creditors’ Committee of Irwin Naturals selected Force Ten Partners as Financial Advisor.
    • Force 10 was retained by the Litigation Practice Group Post-Chapter 11 Confirmation Liquidating Trust
    • Force 10 Retained by Rubio’s in Connection with its Chapter 11 Reorganization

    Chad specializes in insolvency matters, buying and selling side M&A transactions, and complex modeling/financial analysis. Chad works closely with clients to develop cash collateral forecasts, analyze and improve business operations/cost structures, prepare bankruptcy compliance forms, develop bankruptcy plan projections, and analyze creditor claims.

    Prior to joining Force 10, Chad worked at BSW & Associates. Chad also spent 10 years at Ernst & Young LLP, including serving as a Director in its Corporate Finance practice, where he led restructuring advisory engagements. In that capacity, Chad has represented debtors, secured lenders, and creditors’ committees, advising on businesses that ranged from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. He started his career with Ernst & Young’s audit department in New York City and ultimately transferred to the Los Angeles office, where he helped lead the West Coast restructuring group that was part of the Corporate Finance practice.

    Chad received his MBA from New York University, Stern School of Business and his bachelor’s degree from Williams College, and he is a CPA (inactive).

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    I am grateful to have navigated the Chapter 11 process with Force 10.
    Brian Cooper
    CEO, YogaWorks

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