100% Success

Lissner Associates, Ltd., in every engagement, has reached its goals to the benefit of lenders, companies and investors. The Firm prides itself in its ability to analyze and solve complicated, sometimes sensitive, business problems. Experience in many business sectors simply enables the Firm to develop strategies that work.


Of course, all the work the Firm does is kept confidential, but because Lissner Associates Ltd., is proud of its successes, here are some examples from past engagements:

  • Brought major issues to light during a due diligence review on behalf of a lender

  • Put together a viability analysis report on a troubled company on behalf of the lender, which enable the lender to protect its loan

  • Monitored a large manufacturing company on behalf of a lender and uncovered improprieties

  • Took out fatigued lender and placed $60 million debt elsewhere with improved terms and larger credit line

  • Prepared an orderly liquidation valuation analysis of a steel mill on behalf of a lender, enabling the lender to re-evaluate its position and prevent further exposure

  • Executed an orderly liquidation of a large international company on behalf of a lender and recovered the lender's entire loan, all its accrued interest and expenses, where the lender, in anticipating a large loss, had set up millions of dollars in reserves

  • Increased plant utilization from 34% to 82%

  • Improved management's credibility with lenders, vendors and creditors

  • Implemented inventory controls and increased turn rate 1.25 times

  • Turned troubled company's cash flow from negative to positive within six weeks

  • On behalf of a financially troubled company, negotiated and obtained a multi-million dollar vendor/creditor long term pay out plan with no interest and continuing supply and support from the vendors/creditors

  • Saved a steel mill from bankruptcy

  • Improved quality control and reduced scrap by 57%

  • Acted as catalyst to "paralyzed" management to execute action items

  • Executed emotionally difficult tasks of plant closings, employee layoffs, and wage/salary reductions on behalf of management

  • Improved troubled company's gross margin by 524%

  • Stopped a troubled company's cash hemorrhaging

  • Reduced a troubled company's expenses by 41%

  • Negotiated with labor unions, reducing economic package and improving work rules

  • Installed credit and collection policies, reducing average outstanding accounts receivable from 76 days to 43 days, and materially reducing bad debts

  • Prevented lender liability law suit

  • Arranged a $42 million debt placement for a company whose principals were under federal criminal indictment

  • Increased manufacturing productivity by 376%

  • Brought in outside capital to a troubled company