New Session Focusing on the Auto Sector Added to Agenda at Next Week's Distressed Debt Conference, NYC

NEW YORK, June 5 -- Strategic Research Institute's presents the 9th Annual Distressed Debt Investing Forum, scheduled for June 15-16 at the Marriott Marquis, in New York City. As part of the largest and longest running distressed debt series in the U.S., this year's carefully researched program will focus on:

  * Where the market stands in the current credit cycle
  * Effect of hedge funds, both as distressed investors and lenders, on the
    distressed market
  * How the rush of new entrants is changing the industry
  * Risk of a liquidity crisis (and if so, what will the consequences be?)
  * The "hands on" approach to distressed investing
  * Credit derivatives and the role in portfolio management

  CONFERENCE PREVIEW:

NEW SESSION ADDED TO AGENDA: Industry Focus: Opportunities for Distressed Investors in the Automotive Sector

  Speakers:
  Jim Gillette, CSM Automotive Market Foresight
  Thomas H. Gordy, CM&D Capital Advisors LLC

FEATURED PANEL: Taking Control: Pros and Cons of a Hands-On Approach to Distressed Investing

  Moderator:
  F. John Stark, III, Corporate Financial Advisors, LLC

  Speakers:
  Mark Holdsworth, Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC
  Bassem Mansour, Resilience Capital Partners LLC
  Stephen Presser, Monomoy Capital Partners
  Marc Puntus, Miller Buckfire & Co. LLC

Over 120 decision-makers have already signed up. Partial list of delegates includes:

  Accord Financial
  Arnstein & Lehr LLP
  Avenue Capital Group
  Back Bay Capital
  Ballentine Capital
  Banc of America Securities LLC
  Bayside Capital
  Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP
  Bingham McCutchen, LLP
  Boston College
  C.P. Eaton Partners, LLC
  Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec
  Cappello Partners, LLC
  Carl Marks Advisory Group LLC
  Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec
  Columbia University
  ComVest Investment Partners
  Corporate Financial Advisors, LLC
  Dbzwirn & Company
  Dechert LLP
  Ernst & Young
  Fortress Investment Group LLC
  GarMark Advisors, LLC
  GE Capital
  GE Commercial Finance
  General Electric
  Goldman
  Gradient Partners, L.P.
  GSC Partners
  Halcyon LLC
  Imperial Capital, LLC
  Irell & Manella LLP
  Kargman Associates
  Kestrel Consulting
  KeyBanc Capital Markets
  Kilimanjaro Advisors, LLC
  Kurtzman Carson Consultants
  Littlejohn Distressed Securities, LLC
  Lone Star U.S. Acquisitions
  Lyra Capital
  Maslon Edelman Borman & Brand, LLP
  Miller Buckfire & Co. LLC
  Monetary Authority of Singapore
  Monomoy Capital Partners
  Pantheon Ventures
  Pardus Capital Partners
  Ramius Capital Group, LLC
  Resilience Capital Partners LLC
  Reuss & Partner
  Schultze Asset Management
  Service Employees International Union
  Siguler Guff & Company
  Societe Generale
  SSG Capital Advisors
  Starwood Capital Group
  State of Michigan Retirement System
  Sun Capital Partners, Inc.
  TD Capital Private Equity Investors
  Tennenbaum Capital
  Treadstone Partners, LLC
  Tricadia Capital LLC
  Triple F. Funding, LLC
  UBS Investment Bank
  Viking Global

  FOR COMPLETE CONFERENCE AGENDA AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION:

  Log onto: www.srinstitute.com/CX586
  Contact: info@srinstitute.com
  Phone: 800-599-4950 / 212-967-0095
  Fax: 212-967-8021

  * Please mention keycode DPR001488 when registering.

  Christopher Petersen
  Executive Vice President
  Strategic Research Institute
  Phone: 310-649-7838
  cpetersen@srinstitute.com
  www.srinstitute.com/CX586