Eric Danner

Eric Danner is partner with CohnReznick Advisory’s Restructuring and Dispute Resolution Practice. He has over 20 years of experience in providing financial consulting and economic analysis to publicly and privately held companies. He has assisted clients in a number of different fields, including: Consumer Products, Distribution, Environmental Services, Financial Services, Healthcare, Industrial Products, Manufacturing, Media, Real Estate, Retail, Technology, Telecommunications, Textiles, Transportation.

Eric has worked in crisis management situations creating and implementing turnaround business plans and has acted in chief restructuring officer (CRO), chief financial officer (CFO), and chief operating officer (COO) roles in both out-of-court and bankruptcy contexts. He is also experienced in providing a variety of fiduciary services, including wind-down leadership, litigation management, and creditor claims resolution. Some of his engagements include:

• CRO for a consumer products company, where he made profitability and liquidity improvements and negotiated forbearance with the senior secured lender. 
• Interim CFO for a publicly traded $200 million training services company, where he reduced bank debt through the sale of various operating units and managed all aspects of the company’s out-of-court wind-down and dissolution process
• CRO for a wholesale brokerage and trading services firm, where he managed a wind-down of business operations and all corporate activities in accordance with all regulatory requirements 
• Financial advisor to the debtor for Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation, a publicly traded $8.5 billion poultry company, where he was instrumental in the early stage stabilization of the Chapter 11 reorganization process
• Interim CFO for a consumer products company, where he made profitability and liquidity improvements and negotiated forbearance with the senior secured lender 
• Post-confirmation Trustee of PCAA Lender Liquidating Trust, administering a trust holding more than $125 million cash and responsible for winding-down the financial affairs of multiple debtor entities, including asset recovery and claim resolution programs
• Financial advisor to the UCC for Arthur D. Little, a $400 million global consulting firm, where he managed the creditor claims resolution process and supervised the wind-down of more 60 debtor entities
• Plan Administrator of Cabi Downtown, LLC, a bankrupt developer of an 850-unit luxury condominium complex, where he managed the resolution of litigation activities, creditor claim disposition, and wind-down of estate affairs

Press

February 10, 2021 | ACG

Corporate Restructuring/Dispute Resolution Webinar Panelist

June 4, 2020 | Netsuite

The New CFO Dashboard: KPIs To Track Now

May 21, 2020 | CNBC

The Coronavirus is Crushing Bankrupt Retailers’ Hopes For a Rebound – and Threatening Even More Jobs