‹ back to Managing PartnersLisa M. Poulin

Lisa Poulin is a senior executive with more than 27 years of turnaround management and advisory experience, bringing direction and structure to companies in transition. Her strengths include determining the optimal strategy, defining the tasks to be achieved, creating a working group, problem solving, financial analysis, business plan development, obtaining financing and enhancing communication with interested parties. Ms. Poulin’s experience covers a variety of industries, including:

Ms. Poulin has been instrumental in a number of prominent, complex restructurings, with varied responsibilities, including:

• Advised a privately held company offering independent care and assisted living facilities with a network of 23 campuses on its negotiation with their lenders as it attempted to raise equity and refinance some of its debt.
• Provided expert testimony on feasibility  and comparison of competing plans in Asarco LLC case for equity who successfully retained equity and obtained dismissal of $8 billion avoidance action judgment.
• Chapter 11Trustee for USA Investment Partners LLC, and its related entities including USA Investors VI, Tree Moss LLC, HMA Sales LLC with debt in excess of $200 million and Capital Land Investors, LLC. Additional holdings include real estate interest in over 75 entities and properties with over 40,000 acres of land in various stages of development as well as an Internet company.  Also served as Chapter 11Trustee of PurchasePro , living.com and Shaw Furniture Galleries.
• Advised Musicland Group Inc., a $1 billion specialty retailer, during its bankruptcy
• Served as chief restructuring officer (CRO) of Environmental Elements Corporation, an engineering company with operations in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada, through the sale of the business in a Chapter 11 proceeding
• Advised Oakwood Homes Corporation, an $800 million manufactured housing company, during its bankruptcy process, including obtaining a $250 million DIP loan
• Interim CRO of Seitel Inc. after the CEO and CFO left the company, where she was involved with cost reductions, developing and implementing underwriting policies, business plan development, designing a compensation program, performing investigations and negotiating a forbearance agreement with bondholders

Ms. Poulin has served as an advisor to numerous companies both in and out of court and has testified on a wide range of issues. She is a frequent speaker and author on insolvency and turnaround management. Ms. Poulin is a Certified Turnaround Professional and a Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Bucknell University and a master’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh. Ms. Poulin serves as a vice president of the Turnaround Management Association Board of Directors and is a member of AIRA, ABI and the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation. In addition, Ms. Poulin has held numerous board positions with Nexus Recovery Center, Inc. Dallas, TX and is currently on the audit committee of Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care, Inc. in Washington, DC.