Barrier Advisors

Mr. Laber leads the firm and has been providing companies and creditor groups with consulting and restructuring advice for more than 16 years. He has also provided expert testimony in Bankruptcy Court and been a speaker at the AIRA Annual Conference. Mr. Laber’s experience includes mergers and acquisitions advisory; including 363 sales as well as buy-side and investor due diligence. Representative restructuring transactions include: Marcal Paper Mills, Millennium Digital Media, Thayer Aerospace, Trussway Holdings, Cone Mills Corporation, Galey & Lord, Inc., Moll Industries, Inc., Prime Succession, Inc., Wickes, Inc., Manco Products, Inc., Acme Packaging Corporation, Metrocall Wireless, Snelling Personnel Services, and Georges/Quik-To-Fix Foods, Inc.

Prior to joining Barrier Advisors in 2001, Mr. Laber was a principal member of PricewaterhouseCoopers' (PwC) Business Recovery Practice, where he focused on creation and execution of turnaround and restructuring strategies. He was also selected to serve in the Chairman's office, where he developed PwC strategy, implemented the merger of Pricewaterhouse with Coopers & Lybrand, and negotiated international profit-sharing agreements.

Mr. Laber received his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP), and Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor (CIRA), and member of the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors, American Bankruptcy Institute, the Turnaround Management Association and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

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