The vulture investors

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If debt was the fool's paradise of the eighties, then bankruptcy became the bitter reality of the early nineties. Every day, it seemed, the headlines trumpeted another famous company declaring bankruptcy. And feasting on the corporate wreckage was a growing breed of scavengers--the vulture investors. Seeing riches in the ruins, they bought up bonds, bank loans, and other types of debt at cheap prices. Some even acquired control of companies that were coming out of Chapter 11, gambling that the future would prove to be much brighter than the past. Painstakingly reported and full of behind-the-scenes stories borne out by dozens of personal interviews, The Vulture Investors takes us inside the risky--and rewarding--world of investing in distressed companies by chronicling the major bankruptcy cases of our time. We meet the people who have learned how to profit from the troubles of others, and see close up how they combine scrutiny of value with strategy in their endeavors to spin gold from the corporate rag pile. And we experience the intricacies, loopholes, and pitfalls of the complex web of bankruptcy laws they have mastered to help orchestrate financial restructurings that will most benefit them. Among the colorful characters we meet: Marty Whitman, a crusty veteran vulture who reaped great gains in the bankruptcy reorganizations of Southland and Public Service Company of New Hampshire. Carl Icahn, the former corporate raider who invested in the busted bonds of such companies

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