
A Multi-Dimensional Level of Thinking for the Most Challenging Situations
The implementation of an ambitious financial restructuring plan necessitates intellectual discipline, ingenuity and tenacity. An effective advisor must cover the entire field in a special situations mandate, taking into account a host of relevant factors, including economic and regulatory conditions, industry trends and the competitive landscape in order to properly design tailor-made alternatives for the distressed business. Our main strength lies here - in a client centric approach to devising and executing complex liquidity and related transactional-based strategies to achieve the best possible outcome.
The firm’s dynamic advisory practice offers a multi-disciplinary range of services, including advising borrowers in the development and execution of inventive strategies aimed at effectuating both in court and out-of-court restructurings as well as strategic acquirers looking to make opportunistic investments. We are also a preferred choice to help create and maximize value in the context of managing corporate wind downs as a fiduciary, liquidating trustee or independent director. Companies in financial distress choose us as restructuring advisor because of our broad financial capabilities and our deep commitment to value creation.
Helping Your Business Come Out On The Right Side of Financial Uncertainty

FOUNDER AND MANAGING DIRECTOR,
Leon Barson
Leon Barson, Managing Director of Barson Advisory LLC, is an accomplished restructuring specialist who spearheads the structuring and delivery of high-value solutions to complex financial challenges in distressed business situations. Over the course of his three-decade legal career, including as a partner with two AMLaw 100 firms, he gained national recognition counseling businesses in significant bankruptcies and guiding corporate debtors, private equity firms, investors, and acquirers alike in a number of noteworthy Chapter 11 cases, out-of-court restructurings and distressed M&A transactions.
Leon's advisory practice has four primary elements:
- developing out-of-court restructuring transactions that are designed to avoid insolvency proceedings;
- providing a full range of advisory services to companies and their boards of directors across multiple industries for complex value creation, special situation business transformations and restructurings;
- serving as an independent advisor or interim replacement general partner/manager for private equity, hedge and other private capital funds during periods of transition; and
- advising strategic acquirers on the successful acquisition and integration of distressed businesses.
Leon graduated from New York University, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, where he pursued a BA in Political Science and Economics, and he received his Juris Doctor from Boston University School of Law. He serves as an independent fiduciary and trusted advisor to companies in a variety of business sectors.
We appreciate the advantages of being a boutique advisory firm. Independence allows us to be nimble and more easily respond to client needs, while at the same time preserving integrity and promoting creativity. It also directs focus to the client, without being encumbered by lumbering bureaucracy. We appreciate these advantages because they are essential to the pursuit of excellence in our practice. Equally important is our firm conviction that it is up to us to make ourselves valuable to our clients. Everything we do is with this core principle in mind.
Barson Advisory LLC is a boutique financial advisory firm that provides business consulting and advisory services to corporate management, boards of directors, private equity and strategic investors, and other stakeholders in distressed and special situations. Barson Advisory LLC is not a certified public accounting firm or a law firm and does not provide accounting or legal advice. The information presented on this site is not, and should not be construed as, legal, tax, business, investment, accounting, advisory or other professional advice.