DEBT SERIOUS Podcast

Ron is Co-Head of Lincoln International’s Global Valuations and Opinions Group, leading a team of more than 250 portfolio valuation and transaction opinion professionals. Ron provides capital advisory and valuation expertise to clients across industries and serves on the firm’s Global Executive Committee. Ron has more than 30 years of experience advising corporate and private equity clients on the...

Andrew Eversfield joined Sound Point Capital in 2021 and is currently the Co-Head of Direct Lending. He was a Managing Director at CVC Credit Partners when Sound Point Capital acquired their Direct Lending platform in June 2021. Before CVC, Andrew was part of GE, where he was selected for the Corporate Leadership Staff and held a range of senior roles across finance, sales, and platform leadership...

Tom Gober is President of Thomas Gober Forensic Accounting Services and specializes in forensic accounting and fraud investigations, primarily in the insurance and reinsurance industries. Since the 2008 financial crisis, his work has focused on the financial condition of the U.S. life and annuity sector, particularly captive reinsurance structures used to offload liabilities and inflate liquidity,...

Leyla Kunimoto is an investor and editor of Accredited Investor Insights , a newsletter that helps investors navigate private markets. She writes about private equity, private credit, and real estate, focusing on the practical realities of evaluating alternative investments from the limited partner perspective. Leyla began investing in public markets in 2001 and expanded into private markets in 20...

Jim Grant is the founder and editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer and one of the most respected voices in financial markets. Grant is the author of ten books on finance and history. His most recent book is Friends Until the End: Edmund Burke and Charles Fox in the Age of Revolution. His other works include Money of the Mind, a history of borrowing and lending in America; a life of John Adams,...

Michael Kao has been in the investment business for 30+ years, with extensive experience analyzing and investing across a wide range of markets and asset classes — from commodities and credit to convertible arbitrage, capital structure and event-driven strategies, and distressed debt and equity. He began his career in the early 1990s in the commodities unit at Goldman Sachs in New York. After Gold...

Joe Sarachek is one of the most seasoned voices in distressed debt. He is the Managing Partner at Sarachek Law and has spent three decades working on hundreds of bankruptcy cases. Joe also runs Strategic Liquidity Fund , teaches bankruptcy investing at NYU Stern, and published The Distressed Investing Playbook —a book that combines case studies, strategy, and legal insight for anyone serious about...