Gower Advisers

Independence.  Integrity.  Intelligence.

• Assisting creditors in recovering value in distressed situations 
  
• Assisting companies seeking to acquire assets in distress or bankruptcy
  
• Providing broad senior level assistance in restructuring situations, including acting as chief restructuring officer, trustee or mediator in contentious situations, as well as expert testimony in valuation and plan feasibility work
  
• ​Acting as an independent director in public or private companies
  

•  broad strategic advice on capital issues in circumstances of difficulty or distress
  
•   refinancing or re-negotiating debt instruments
  
•   obtaining new debt or equity financing, whether in a stressed situation or not
  
•   selling assets
  

​Mr. Lewis can provide such services on an individual basis, or can put together a small team of experienced restructuring professionals at short notice to implement any assignment.  Assignments with liabilities of $20-200 million are the range within which Gower is most likely to be cost competitive and efficient.  Larger more complex assignments are also feasible where Gower's role is limited to the services of Mr. Lewis individually (such as mediation, expert testimony or restructuring officer roles).

​Mr. Lewis' experience ranges from some of the largest corporate restructuring deals (GGP, NewPage) to middle market transactions such as Fleetwood Industries, Environmental Systems Products and Flexsol (deals in the $50-150 million range).

Gower can provide the experience and expertise derived from 40 years of active deal-making in world class investment banking institutions at a cost proposition more characteristic of the middle market. 

​Gower's ongoing and recently completed assignments include:

• Acting as advisor to private equity owners in respect of a restructuring of $120 million bank debt at a portfolio company (ongoing)
  
• Acting as general financial advisor to a large internationally-owned US corporation seeking acquisition opportunities in the U.S. middle market (ongoing)
  
• Acting as an Expert Witness in the litigation case in the High Court of Justice in Antigua and Barbuda between HMB Holdings and various parties including the Attorney General of Antigua and First Caribbean International Bank, in respect of certain banking matters (ongoing)
  
• Acting as the company's investment banker to Rubio's Restaurants, a $200MM revenue restaurant chain located primarily in CA in its successful pre-packaged Chapter 11 filing in Delaware
  
• Advising a private hedge fund in connection with its loans to Waitr Inc., a publicly-listed food delivery business
  
• advising a private equity firm in connection with a potential acquisition of a large ($1 billion+ in debt) Latin American agri- business currently part of a US Chapter 11 proceeding
  
• providing litigation support and expert testimony in two recent creditor-led objections to the terms of engagement of company advisors - David's Bridal in Delaware and PHI Inc. in Dallas.
  
• advising the Board of Directors of a privately held $400 million personnel services company in the capacity as consultant to the board on the restructuring of its debt.
  
• ​advising a major Mexican public company on its minority investment in a Mexican publicly quoted (CKD) infrastructure fund.
  
• advising Molymet, a Chilean public company, in the restructuring of Molycorp, a producer and processor of rare earth elements and metals.
  
• advising the Eolica del Sur/Mareña project, a renewable energy project in Mexico, on behalf of its shareholders, Maquarie's Mexican infrastructure fund and Mitsubishi.
  
• providing due diligence support to a New York based family fund in final round bids for the acquisition of consumer products companies in the $100MM to $350MM value range.