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Mandy Townsend is experienced at providing restructuring, financial analysis, strategic planning, and negotiation services. She has managed a number of distressed corporate situations, assisted companies through Chapter 11 reorganizations and Chapter 7 liquidations, negotiated §363 sales, and effectively delivered substantial savings to her clients through the successful negotiation of accommodation agreements, bank terms, surcharge policies, pricing agreements, and contract terms. Most recently, Ms. Townsend has facilitated the out-of-court restructuring of an $80M manufacturer through the negotiation of additional liquidity and turnaround management. In another case, she led surcharge negotiations during a contract restructuring, which lead to the creation of a revised long-term agreement that was incorporated as part of the final restructuring plan. She has led a number of successful turnaround and refinancing initiatives as well as managed various wind-down processes. Ms. Townsend also has extensive recent experience with delivering viability assessments and restructuring plans through the preparations and analysis of forecasted financial statements for potential lending institutions. Prior to joining Conway MacKenzie & Dunleavy, Ms. Townsend was a Senior Consultant in Plante & Moran’s Restructuring and Turnaround group. She had previously spent six years at multi-billion dollar automotive manufacturer, where she managed over $500 million dollars of various products while at the same time leading the company’s Global Forging Commodity Strategy task force. Ms. Townsend earned her Master of Business Administration degree from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. She is a member of the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors, Turnaround Management Association, American Bankruptcy Institute and the Association for Corporate Growth. | 