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"The beauty of big data is it gives us a lot more insights to be more relevant, more segmented and more targeted. And we can treat more customers in the way they should be treated versus just guessing."

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"The media landscape has been in constant movement over the past few years, which has given us the opportunity to act differently as a challenger. There is the potential to be quicker and smarter, which makes the decision making process faster. Events are happening, and companies must be ready to jump on the train and make something out of it"

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"The smaller companies are trying to look at a space that’s already crowded and struggling to figure out how to optimize the patent filing process and to determine where to invest in innovation. The larger companies have different challenges around monetizing their portfolio and dealing with litigation"

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“There’s a major change in Germany that’s coming into effect on the first of March. In Germany, the insolvency system has traditionally been very bureaucratic an administrator-oriented”

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“If you recall, everyone was being told don’t buy bonds, rates are going up, it’s a sucker’s bet. We were all looking at the prospect of higher interest rates affecting overly leveraged companies and people were, to a large degree, anticipating that at least the second half of 2011 was going to be a very active year for opportunities in distressed investing. Well, obviously that didn’t happen.”

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The six slides will cover three themes: why we think it’s going to be a low growth environment going forward, why large cap credit is the place to be if you want to surf the spread and run more of a par arbitrage business, and why middle market distressed is going to be the sweet spot in the increased opportunities as far as credit is concerned.”

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“The general idea about what’s supposed to be done and what the whole proceeding is, therefore, varies a lot from country to country as well. That is something that I would also like you to take home from this here, that do not go and hire a lawyer to tell you what the bankruptcy law is like. Hire the lawyer and ask him or her what really happens if this goes wrong.”

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“We try to keep our fingers in all different aspects of credit. Sometimes that means hard assets, sometimes bank loans, sometimes bonds, sometimes distressed; generally, wherever we can handicap the amount and timing of cash flows”

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“We differ from other firms that do turnarounds in that we are very comfortable buying the debt of troubled companies and converting it into equity, whether it’s through a formal reorganization, out-of-court restructuring or some other process”

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