Article from "Risk"

Published on: 4/8/2006

Mel Zwaig, founder president of Zwaig Consulting Inc. ("Zwaig"), has provided insolvency advice since 1961.He specializes in Financial Restructuring, Statutory Insolvency Services.Forensic Accounting, Litigation Consulting, and Corporate Finance.

Credentials

Melvin C. Zwaig, the founder president of Zwaig Consulting Inc., is:
A Trustee in Bankruptcy
A member of The Canadian, Quebec, Ontario and Alberta Institutes of Chartered Accountants
A Fellow of the Quebec and Ontario Institute of Chartered Accountants
A member of the Canadian Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Professionals
A founding director and member of the Insolvency Institute of Canada
A founding director, member and Treasurer of the International Insolvency Institute
A Certified Fraud Examiner
A member of the Institute of Arbitration and Mediation
An International Director of the Turnaround Management Association
An International Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy

...Mel Zwaig was an important participant in the revisions to the 1997 Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act.Since then he has represented the interests of thousands of unsecured creditors in the revisions to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, and the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act that will come into effect in June, 2006.

Zwaig has worked with suppliers to ensure that their best interests are taken into consideration and protected.Zwaig has also worked with debtors in negotiating settlements with their suppliers that resulted in the suppliers taking ownership positions in companies.The suppliers' money was recovered when the restructured insolvent companies were nursed back to financial health....

Zwaig provides experience, creativity and integrity.

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From Concordia Magazine, September 2002, "Class Acts"

Melvin Zwaig, S BCom, is a highly respected accountant and insolvency professional and a founding partner of Zwaig Consulting Inc. in Toronto. Melvin was among 37 fellows inducted into the American College of Bankruptcy in a ceremony in the Great Hall of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., March 15. He lives in North York.