Igor Zax (Zaks) , CFA, President of Tenzor Ltd. gave two guest lectures on Operational Restructuring and Turnaround and on Restructuring and Recovery in Emerging Markets at University of Toronto Faculty of Law. The lectures were part of International Insolvency Course by David Ward and George Kelakos within GPLLM (Global Professional Master of Laws) program.
Slides for the first lecture are available via link below:
http://tenzor.ca/2019/07/05/major-trends-in-scf-in-2019-video-replay-and-podcast-available/Igor Zaks (Zax), CFA, President of Tenzor Ltd. and CEO of TenzorAI, presented at World of Open Account Learning Lab e-round table Major Trends in SCF in 2019. Full webcast recording is available via link below: https://woa.community/inspire/knowledge-hub/knowledge-hub-post/2019/04/05/Major-Trends-in-SCF-in-2019–video-replay-and-podcast-available?originNode=27
Igor Zax (Zaks), Managing Director of Tenzor Ltd. presented at the 6th Annual Supply Chain and Finance Symposium, hosted by IE Business School and Banco Santander in 20-th of June Madrid. This top academic event featured professors from top universities, including Stanford, University of Chicago, University of Washington in St. Louis, Georgetown University, IE, Singapore Management University, Imperial Business School and others, corporates (such as Metro Group and BMW) and banks (Santander and HSBC).
The presentation was focused nature and unique characteristics of trade receivable risk, differences it presents with other risk types, and implications of SCF structures to the risk transformation, distribution and management. Full copy of the presentation available via link below:
Trade Credit: the nature of the risk and its implications for SCF
Igor Zax (Zaks), Managing Director of Tenzor Ltd., chaired Private Equity Deal Origination Conference 25 November 2015. The event was hosted by IIR/Informa and featured will major PE houses such as Bain Capital, LDC, Riverside, and August Equity, as well as Houlithan Lokey, Cavendish Corporate Finance, KPMG, Grant Thornton, White and Case and others.
Igor Zax also presented a panel on Buy and Build Strategies, talking about successful identification of platform companies, putting together effective management teams, financing initial purchase and add-on acquisitions. Please see below slides prepared for the above panel (actual panel was live discussion without slides by any participant)
Buy and Build PE Origination 2015
Igor Zax, Managing Director of Tenzor Ltd. presented 4-th of November 2014 a webcast “Credit Insurance: Common Misconceptions, and Can it Be a Useful Tool”, hosted by Commercial Finance Association (CFA), the international trade association dedicated to the asset-based lending and factoring industries.
The webcast was attended by major banks, asset based lenders, export credit agencies, insurance brokers and credit insurers.
You can see slides for the presentation as a PDF file- link below
Credit Insurance- common misconceptions and can it be a useful tool FINAL
Igor Zax CFA, founder of Tenzor Ltd, gave a new guest lecture Operational Turnaround –Focus on Working Capital and Supply Chain as part of a course “Mergers, MBOs and Other Corporate Reorganisations” by professor Paolo Volpin at London Business School 23 March 2012.
The lecture covers principles of distressed investments, corporate turnaround and operational due diligence. It also focuses on supply chain and working capital implications, use of asset backed lending, vertical integration and business model re-design.
Slides for the presentation can be seen by clicking the link below:
Operational Turnaround –Focus on Working Capital and Supply Chain
Igor Zax, founder of Tenzor Ltd, delivered a masterclass on “Special Situations and Distress-Driven M&A: What Does it Take to Conduct a Successful Accelerated M&A Process” 28 September 2011 in Moscow, as part of C5 conference on M&A in Russia and CIS.
The masterclass was attended by senior M&A professionals of major Russian and CIS banks and industrial groups.
For link to English version of the presentation please click the title above.
Igor Zax, founder of Tenzor Ltd, gave a guest lecture Operational Due Diligence -Key to M&A Success as part of a course “Mergers, MBOs and Other Corporate Reorganisations” by professor Paolo Volpin at London Business School 11 June 2011.
Slides for the presentation can be seen by clicking the link below:
Operational Due Diligence -Key to M&A Success
Igor Zax, Managing Director of Tenzor ltd., . and Warwick Ley, partner of Endless LLP presented at a panel on Corporate turnaround and stakeholder management strategies at European Investment in Distressed Debt Forum in London 27-th October 2010
While actual presentation was in a form of live discussion without slides (that was a preference of both panellists), Igor Zax also prepared slide presentation that is available here: Corporate Turnaround –thinking beyond capital structures
Igor Zax, founder and MD of Tenzor Ltd., moderated a panel at a conference “Private Equity in Central and Eastern Europe”, London, 15 October 2010, organised by C5. The presenation, Valuations – Practical Questions for PE Investor, focuses on shortcomings of traditional valuation techniques, exit strategies, criteria and motivations of investors.