Advanced Programs Inc. (API)

• Financial Advisor, Placement Agent and Principal Investor in the management buyout of the API operating unit from DRS Technologies, a government security services entity creating custom-packaged computers and peripherals for the military

DRS Technologies Inc.

ATA Holdings Corp. (Creditors)

• Financial Advisor to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors during this airline's Chapter 11 reorganization
• Prepared an expert report and attended several depositions with respect to the valuation of Boeing's claims for damages and potential litigation
• Negotiated the loan and equity infusion from Southwest Airlines that enabled the company to restructure its operations

Barclays Private Equity & Investcorp

• Financial Advisor to a consortium of investors led by Barclays Private Equity and Investcorp in the largest Italian buyout of 2008 – the €820 million acquisition of N&W Global Vending SpA, a leading pan-European manufacturer of food and beverage vending machines, from Argan Capital and Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity

N&W Global Vending SpA (Argan Capital & Merrill Lynch Global PE)

Candover Investments plc

• Financial Advisor to this UK-based private equity firm on its €1.7 billion acquisition from Permira of a majority interest in Ferretti SpA, one of the world's leading manufacturers of high performance luxury motor yachts
• Second-largest Italian buyout completed in 2007

Ferretti SpA (Permira)

Coke Israel (CBC Group)

• Financial Advisor to CBC Group, Israel's leading and largest Total Beverage Company, during its $80 million acquisition of a 95.6% stake in Türk Tuborg Bira ve Malt Sanayi A.S. from Carlsberg Group

Türk Tuborg Bira ve Malt Sanayi A.S. (Carlsberg Group)

Delphi Corporation (PBGC)

• Financial Advisor to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), an agency of the U.S. government, in the bankruptcy proceedings of Delphi Corporation, the fifth largest bankruptcy in the history of the United States
• Provided strategic advice to PBGC in the $3.4 billion transfer of net liabilities from the Delphi Hourly-Rate Employees Pension Plan to General Motors Hourly-Rate Employees Pension Plan

M. DuMont Schauberg GmbH (DuMont)

• Financial Advisor to this third-largest newspaper publisher in Germany in its €153 million acquisition of the German operations of UK-based newspaper publisher Mecom plc's German operations

Mecom plc

ELCO Holdings Ltd.-Airwell Group

• Financial Advisor to ELCO, the Israel-based parent of European subsidiary Airwell, negotiating the acquisition of the residential HVAC group of Fedders Corporation during its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings

Fedders Corporation

ELIXIA Holding GmbH

• Financial Advisor to ELIXIA in the sale of the German & French operations of this fitness and wellness chain to a consortium of private investors led by David Turner and Allan Fisher

Private Investors (David Turner & Allan Fisher)

Fabindia Overseas Private Limited

• Financial Advisor to this $200 million India-based artisan-made textile and home products retailer (owned partially by Wolfensohn & Company) in the acquisition of a 25% share in EAST, a mid to upmarket natural fiber garment retailer with an established niche in the UK fashion market and 70 stores and John Lewis concessions earning revenues in excess of £30 million
• Transaction included the purchase of a stake in EAST plus options to acquire 100% control in a phased earn out over 3 years

EAST

Gale International, LLC

• Strategic advisor to this international real estate development and investment company in its agreement with The Changsha Municipal People's Government to develop approximately 7 sq km into a state-of-the-art ecological city in the Hunan Province of the People's Republic of China

The Changsha Municipal People's Government

IMI plc (Polypipe Group)

• Financial Advisor to IMI in the £293 million sale of its leading plastic pipe and building service products manufacturer to an investment fund owned by New York-based private equity investment firm Castle Harlan Inc.

Castle Harlan Inc.

Interbrew-InBev

• Financial Advisor to Interbrew, a European beverage company that went public in 1999, but was otherwise owned by the Van Damme, de Spoelberch, and de Pret families.
• Belgian Interbrew merged with Brazilian AmBev in 2004 to create InBev, the world's largest brewer at the time.  Allan Chapin is a former Director of InBev.
• Financial Advisor to InBev during its €800 million acquisition of voting and non-voting shares from Russia's Alfa-Eco Group and India's SUN Trade International Ltd., acquiring a 98.5% economic interest in SUN Interbrew

Alfa-Eco Group & SUN Trade International Ltd.

Kasper ASL, Ltd.

• Financial Advisor to Official Committee of Equity Security Holders of this branded women's apparel company during its Chapter 11 reorganization and sale of the company
• In a four week period, Compass was instrumental in raising the purchase price for Kasper by $17 million and helped improve Equity Holder recoveries by more than $34 million

Kmart Corporation (Wilmington Trust)

• Financial Advisor to Wilmington Trust (the Indenture Trustee) and assisted in negotiating an improvement in their bondholders' recovery under the plan of reorganization during the Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings of this major retailer

Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.

• Provided strategic advice to this India-based industrial and automotive manufacturing conglomerate in the acquisition of leading Italian gear manufacturer, Metalcastello SpA

Metalcastello SpA

Mecom Group plc

• Financial Advisor to this specialized media investment company related to two co-investment agreements with Och-Ziff, for fund contributions totaling $175 million

Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC

Metallurg

• Financial Advisor to this producer and seller of high quality metal alloys during its out-of-court restructuring

National Equipment Services

• Financial Advisor to the Ad Hoc Committee of Noteholders for this company that rents and sells specialty construction and industrial equipment during its Chapter 11 reorganization

NICE Systems

• Financial Advisor and Fairness Opinion to this Israeli telecommunications and security company for its $38.5 million acquisition of US-based Dictaphone's Communications Recording Systems business

Dictaphone Corporation

PensionsFirst Analytics LLP

• Financial Advisor to this software and analytic solutions business serving the global defined benefits industry, negotiating a minority investment from and strategic alliance with State Street Corporation

State Street Corporation

Pi Capital

• Financial Advisor to Pi Capital for a strategic investment made by the Growth Equity Team of Bank of Scotland Corporate. No shares were sold by existing Pi shareholders

Bank of Scotland Corporate

Portrait Corporation of America (Bank of New York)

• Financial Advisor to the Bank of New York, the indenture trustee of this portrait photography service provider during the final stages of its emergence from Chapter 11 reorganization, including preparation of expert witness testimony

RSL Communications

• Financial Advisor to Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of this telecommunications company during its Chapter 11 reorganization & sale of assets
• Suggested additional parties to Debtors' Financial Advisors, brought parties to the table, and participated in final negotiations for the sale process to enhance price, dilute warranties and solidify an equitable networking capital adjustment protecting net proceeds from the negotiated sales transaction

SCOR Group

• Financial Advisor to SCOR in the recapitalization of this reinsurance company and the potential sale of assets
• Allan Chapin is a Director of SCOR and SCOR US Corporation

Super Ocean Group

• Financial Advisor to this real estate developer in the sale of a large, Shanghai-based residential/retail property

Teleglobe Communications Corporation

• Financial Advisor to Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of this telecommunications company during its Chapter 11 reorganization.  Then a subsidiary of Bell Canada Enterprise (BCE), Teleglobe's concurrent filing under the CCAA was one of Canada's largest bankruptcies at the time
• Compass' efforts increased the recovery to U.S. creditors on the sale of its Core Telecom Business by 285%

Telegraaf Media Groep (TMG Netherlands)

• Financial Advisor to TMG in the sales of the majority of its Dutch titles, including Dutch editions of magazines Elegance, Residence, CosmoGirl! and Hitkrant to Amsterdam-based Pelican Magazines Hearst and the sale of Dutch title JAN magazine to Gruner+Jahr

Pelican Magazines Hearst and Gruner+Jahr

Telegraaf Media Groep (TTG Sweden AB)

• Financial Advisor to TMG in the sales of the operations and media assets of TTG Sweden AB, including six magazines plus their associated websites, the web portal Mari Wizard, and shares in Nakterhusets Publishing AB, Sweden TTG Marin AB and 50% of TTG Hearst AB, to LRF Media

LRF Media

Ultimate Juice Company [now Naked Juice] & North Castle Partners

• Advised Ultimate Juice Company and North Castle Partners in a transaction for preferred stock financing from Valence Capital Management

Valence Capital Management

Waterford Wedgwood plc

• Advised this European luxury consumer products company on recapitalization alternatives
• Successfully secured and negotiated a €50 million investment from Corporate Partners II, the New York-based private equity fund of Lazard Alternative Investments LLC

Corporate Partners II (Lazard Alternative Investments LLC)

Wiegers Capital Management

• Financial Advisor to Wiegers in its acquisition of Hart Publications (now Hart Energy Publishing, one of the world's largest publishers of diversified information products and trade publications for the energy industry) from VS&A Communication Partners during a management buyout

Hart Publications (VS&A Communication Partners)