Richard provides financial advisory services to creditors and specializes in representing official committees of unsecured creditors in bankruptcy proceedings. He has advised unsecured creditors, senior lenders and healthy and distressed companies in leveraged recapitalizations, mergers and acquisitions and interim management situations. Mr. Newman has successfully negotiated DIP financings, plan of reorganizations and restructuring agreements. Richard earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from George Washington University and an MBA from The University of Texas.