Receivers' Huddle Series: So, You Want to Be a Receiver?

Wednesday, July 13 | 2:00 - 3:30 PM ET (11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PT)

NAFER Members: FREE
Non-Member Attendees: FREE

Presented by:

Steve Donell FedReceiver, Inc.	Kevin Duff Rachlis Duff & Peel	Chantal Eikey Rehmann	Greg Hays Hays Financial Consulting	Nate Jones Moglia Advisors	Hal Levenberg Yip Associates

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Yip Associates is a national firm specializing in forensic accounting, financial investigations, fiduciary services, financial data analytics, valuation, integrity-monitoring and bankruptcy tax services.  The firm serves its clients from offices in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, New Jersey and New York. The firm’s clients include litigators, bankruptcy trustees, State and Federal Receivers, and several governmental agencies in a wide variety of matters.  Our experts have provided testimony before State and Federal Courts, and domestic and international arbitration tribunals.  Additionally, our experts have served as Receiver, Liquidating Trustee, Monitor, Examiner and Assignee.  Our team members hold several designations, including Certified Public Accountants (CPA), Certified Fraud Examiners (CFE), Master Analyst in Financial Forensics (MAFF), and Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors (CIRA).  The firm has professionals fluent in English, Spanish, and Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese) which allows the firm to work efficiently on international matters. Yip Associates is certified as a woman-owned and minority-owned business.

About Our Speakers

Steve Donell
FedReceiver, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA

Stephen J. Donell, CPM®, ARM®, CCIM is President of both Jalmar Properties. Inc., and FedReceiver, Inc. both of which are based in Los Angeles, California. Mr. Donell has administered and/or been appointed as a receiver in over 700 cases. Mr. Donell has decades of experience in receivership matters involving residential and commercial real estate, asset and business operations and liquidations, oil and gas partnerships, post judgment enforcement actions, hotel/motel, assisted living facilities, single family and condominium construction completion/entitlements, gas station/c-stores, marital dissolutions, sub-standard housing, complex partnership disputes and appointments in federal court as receiver in numerous actions filed by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and other government enforcement actions. He is a past Co-President of the Los Angeles/Orange County chapter of the California Receivers Forum (CRF) and Past- President of NAFER.

Kevin Duff
Rachlis Duff & Peel
Chicago, IL

Kevin Duff is a partner at Rachlis Duff & Peel, LLC, in Chicago, Illinois. Within his complex commercial litigation practice, Mr. Duff serves as a federal equity receiver and counsel to receivers. He is the Immediate Past President of NAFER.

Chantal Eikey
Rehmann
Grand Rapids, MI

Chantal is a consulting manager in Rehmann's turnaround and restructuring practice, working with team members to develop creative solutions for troubled businesses, both domestic and international. Chantal began her career at Rehmann in 2009 as an audit intern. She gained collections experience with an accounts payable audit company in 2010 before joining Rehmann’s turnaround and restructuring practice. Chantal has significant experience managing a company’s operations until sale, as well as ensuring orderly wind-down or liquidation on insolvent projects. She is also knowledgeable about and worked in both Federal & State Receiverships.

Chantal is a Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor (CIRA); an industry recognition of her high degree of specialized knowledge in business bankruptcy and insolvency. 

Greg Hays
Hays Financial Consulting 
Atlanta, GA

Mr. Hays is a court appointed fiduciary and forensic accountant that specializes in recovering funds from insolvent companies and investment offerings. He is routinely appointed by federal and state courts as a receiver or bankruptcy trustee to manage businesses in order to maximize recovery for creditors. He has been appointed as a fiduciary by courts in seven states.

Mr. Hays is a recognized expert in Ponzi schemes and receiverships and has been quoted in many articles in national publications. The TV show American Greed featured a story on the Al Parish Ponzi scheme where he served as receiver. Other cases in which he has served as a fiduciary have been the subject of TV broadcasts including CNN's Anderson Cooper, CBS Evening News, and local news programs.

He has spoken on bankruptcy, receiver and fraud issues at conferences sponsored by the ABI, ACFE, AIRA, IAAR, INSOL, NABT, NACM, NAFER, NCBJ, TMA and other professional organizations.

Mr. Hays has thirty-five years of financial experience including twenty-five years managing bankruptcy and receivership cases and investigating fraudulent activity.  He manages a firm of corporate financial consultants that specializes in turnarounds, workouts, asset recovery, forensic accounting, litigation support, and interim management. He is a Certified Turnaround Professional (“CTP”) and a Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor (“CIRA”) and serves on the Board of Directors for the Association of Insolvency & Restructuring Advisors. He is also a Past President of the National Association of Federal Equity Receivers (“NAFER”). 

Nate Jones
Moglia Advisors
Memphis, TN

Nate Jones is a Corporate Advisor for Moglia Advisors, a national financial and operational advisory firm based in Chicago, IL serving underperforming and distressed businesses.  Moglia Advisors' professionals serve in a variety of capacities including fiduciary roles such as receiver, trustee, CRO, or assignee, and also as fraud investigators, litigation consultants, and expert witnesses.  Nate has advised in several projects including multiple large national and international bankruptcies, state court receiverships, CRO engagements, and assignments for the benefit of creditors.

Hal Levenberg
Yip Associates
Miami, FL

Hal A. Levenberg, CIRA, CFE is a Partner at Yip Associates and has over fourteen (14) years of experience in forensic accounting within the context of bankruptcy, fraud investigations, and litigation support. Mr. Levenberg has provided forensic investigation services to debtors, creditors, receivers, assignees, bankruptcy trustees, examiners and liquidating trusts. He has extensive experience in the financial investigation of Ponzi schemes, tracing of funds, embezzlement, securities and mortgage fraud. Mr. Levenberg also has experience calculating economic damages in breach of contract cases and other disputes.

Mr. Levenberg has provided services to and worked in conjunction with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, United States Department of Justice, Internal Revenue Service, and the Federal Public Defender. In addition, Mr. Levenberg regularly guest lectures at the University of Miami and Florida International University on forensic accounting, Ponzi schemes and bankruptcy fraud.

Prior to joining Yip Associates, Mr. Levenberg worked at FTI Consulting in New York, New York in their forensic and litigation consulting group where he worked on numerous forensic investigations in connection with cases involving diversion of funds and fraudulent accounting activity. During his tenure\ at FTI Consulting, Mr. Levenberg also worked on a team of professionals in connection with the court appointed Trustee under SIPA in the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities.