Eric LeCompte, executive director of Jubilee USA, a religious anti-poverty group and proponent of restructuring Puerto Rico's debt, endorsed the bill while acknowledging it is not "perfect".
Mexico is in the midst of restructuring its customs operations, having fired 43 of 48 port directors, Lopez said.
The first task may be for Kodak to sell the patents it has been trying to unload, said Daniel C. McElhinney, managing director of corporate restructuring for Epiq Systems.
Even though Congressional leaders reached a last-minute deal to avoid a federal default, the issue will continue to cast a shadow on auto sales, said John Hoffecker, a managing director of the restructuring firm AlixPartners.
THE market's current suspicion about any corporate use of structured finance could hit hardest at companies already struggling with the weak economy, warned William C. Repko, managing director of the restructuring group at J. P. Morgan Chase, a leader in structured finance.
Drummond Smith, who has been appointed as interim chairman, is chair of Welcome Finance and previously served as finance director and chief restructuring officer of the now defunct subprime lender Cattles.
Yet Kim Seong Bae, a director in charge of restructuring, still wonders why they are there.
Her father retired as a director of foreign-debt restructuring at SG Warburg in London.
But although Seong-Bae Kim, a director of Samsung's restructuring office, concedes that outsiders may bring a "fresh perspective", they tend to "hinder speed in decision-making".
