10.21.2011

CSFB's Special Situation Conference

Yesterday, CSFB held its annual Special Situation conference. As usual, the event showed me the sheer number of people I have to compete with on a daily basis in distressed land. I saw a run from a CSFB trader that mentioned there were over 700 people in attendance! That's a lot of capital chasing after a fairly small set of opportunities. Nonetheless, I have the utmost respect for the desk analysts at Credit Suisse and think they are some of the best in the business. Because there was a multiple series of tracks going on, I couldn't make it to each of the presentations. With that said, for those that are interested in the names the desks are talking about these days, here are the list of credits that were discussed:


Lightsquared
AMF Bowling
Penton Media
Quiznos
Contech
Spirit
Marsico
Coach America,
Oriental Trading
Cargo 360
Wastequip
Yellow Roadway
Hawker Beechcraft
Vitruvian
US Powergen
Education Media
ATPG
OTE
Norske Skog
Tronox
Harrah's
TXU
Clear Channel
Cengage
Travelport
Eastman Kodak
Lehman Brothers
First Data
EIX

If you were in attendance, and thought one of the presentations was particularly compelling, and would allow me to use your notes (anonymously of course), it would be greatly appreciated. More importantly, I would like to post on each of these names (excluding the ones I/affiliated parties have an interest in) and would love help from other distressed analysts. If you are interested, let me know.

3 comments:

Anonymous,  10/24/2011  

No Dynegy? No GMR/Horizon/Shipping? No Tribune post reorg analyses?? MGM? iStar?? EDMC?! Freescale somehow doing well enough not to get on the same list as FDC and HET?..

I get it, desks are talking about things they're involved in, and this was a CS show. Still.

Nate [Oddball Stocks] 10/24/2011  

I would be interested in seeing the presentation about AMF Bowling if it's available.

Anonymous,  10/26/2011  

eastman kodak presentation...

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