O’Keefe was recently awarded the Restructuring Community Impact Award (under $50 million) by The M&A Advisor for the restructure of Youthville.  Youthville is a non-profit organization that provides critically needed after school programming to under serviced teens in Detroit.  Brad Coulter, a Managing Director at O’Keefe, worked with the Skillman Foundation as well as other stakeholders to get this project to the finish line.

“The award winners represent the best of the distressed investing and reorganization industry in 2013 and earned these honors by standing out in a group of very impressive candidates,” said David Fergusson, President of The M&A Advisor.  “From lower middle market to multi-billion dollar deals, we have recognized the leading transactions, firms and individuals that represent the highest levels of performance.”

On Tuesday, March 11th, The M&A Advisor will present the 2014 awards at the Awards Gala in Palm Beach, FL, in conjunction with the 2014 M&A Advisor Distressed Investing Summit. Since 1998, The M&A Advisor has been recognizing the achievement of and facilitating connections between the world’s leading mergers and acquisitions, financing and turnaround professionals.