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Food Trucks

Food Trucks

The food truck craze is in high gear, and we recently had the opportunity to visit OutFront Food Trucks, a company that is an industry leader in the engineering and build-out of all kinds of food trucks.

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Why you should revalue your collateral

Why you should revalue your collateral

fracking equipmentAugust 27, 2015 – Section 362(d)(1) of the US Bankruptcy Code provides relief from the automatic stay “for cause including the lack of adequate protection.” Section 361 defines adequate protection as “providing either cash payments, an additional or replacement lien or ‘such other relief as to provide an indubitable equivalent…of interest in such property’.” A secured creditor that is over-secured is often denied a motion to lift the automatic stay based on 362(d).

In our blog The High Cost of Cheap Gas, we reported that this year alone, oil and gas companies have accounted for one third of the corporate-debt defaults worldwide. Companies like SandRidge Energy Inc., and Halcon Resources Corp. have had to issue new secured debt, which will make it difficult for unsecured bondholders to be repaid if the companies are in default. The markets are ripe for some really big defaults from the energy sector, and also those suppliers to the energy industry.

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NAA Conference & Show 2015

NAA Conference & Show 2015

NAA Conference & Show 2015 fun auctionJuly 23, 2015 – As a newcomer to the industry, the 66th International Auctioneers Conference & Show, held in Dallas, Texas was to be my introduction to the world of auctioneers. I’m a marketing guy by nature. I’ve spent the last 15 years working for various financial institutions, primarily in marketing or digital marketing/product related roles. I had no idea that for the last 66 years, the Conference & Show existed.

We had planned to arrive Tuesday, but mother nature decided to thwart those efforts. Our connection through Chicago was canceled and there was no hope of re-routing. That meant no Eddie Deen’s Ranch for me. After another pre-dawn wake up on Wednesday, the planes were on time and I was on my way.

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