Scott B. Davis
CIRA, CPA
Partner, Corporate Advisory & Restructuring Services
Scott B. Davis is a partner in Grant Thornton
LLP’s Corporate Advisory & Restructuring
Services (CARS) group.
Experience
Scott has more than 30 years of consulting
experience assisting underperforming businesses
and in the areas of strategic change, restructuring,
litigation and forensics.
His consulting experience includes turnaround,
workout and restructuring, strategic positioning
and alignment, mergers and acquisitions and
performance improvement.
His operational and consulting experience
includes interim management, developing and
implementing strategic business plans,
establishing budgeting and forecasting tools,
improving cash management and liquidity,
financing negotiations, revenue enhancement,
cost reduction, identifying and disposing non-core
business segments, and negotiating acquisitions
and dispositions.
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Scott recently served as the Director of
Operations and Dispositions on the interim
management team at Saint Vincent Catholic
Medical Centers, a major New York-based
healthcare system that filed for protection under
Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy code
on April 14, 2010.
He has also provided forensic and litigation
assistance and has served as an expert on a wide
variety of matters.
Industry experience
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Airlines
Apparel
Consumer Goods
Energy
Financial Services
Health Insurance
Healthcare
Hospitality
Leasing
Real Estate
Retail
Trucking
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Selected case experience
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American Express Bank v. OCAAT Holdings
Baldwin-United
Braniff Airlines
Continental Information Systems
Crystal Brands
Emerson Radio Corp.
Estate of Doris Duke
FDIC and RTC v. Michael Milken, et al in re:
Drexel Burnham Lambert
Forum Health Care
Highmark Inc.
Hospital Partners of America
Insignia Financial Group
Leisure Industries
Niagara Mohawk Power Company
Olympia & York
Pan Am World Airways
Parkes v. HSBC Holdings, et al
Pepsi v. OCAAT
Rockefeller Center Properties
Saint Johnsbury Truckling Company
Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers of New
York
Sunterra Resorts
The Leslie Fay Companies
U.S. National Whitewater Center
Wadley Regional Medical Center
Warnaco
West Penn Allegheny Health System
Professional activities
Davis has spoken on a variety of topics including
healthcare restructuring, improving business
performance, expert witness testimony, financial
reporting, and the effect of the economy on
various industries, at conferences sponsored by
the Healthcare Management Financial
Association, Association of Insolvency and
Restructuring Advisors, the American Bar
Association, the American Bankruptcy Institute
and the American Transportation Association.
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He has also published a variety of articles
focusing on the effects of financial stress on
healthcare providers, distressed healthcare
restructuring, and avoidance actions.
Publications and speaking engagements
 “Continuing care retirement communities in
distress: Considerations for restructuring
and workouts,” co-author, Health CareRx,
Fall 2012.
 “Managing Saint Vincent Catholic Medical
Centers’ second bankruptcy: Balancing
complexity, compassion and cooperation Grant Thornton’s role as interim
management of Saint Vincent Catholic
Medical Centers of New York,” Grant
Thornton LLP Case Study, co-author,
September 2012.
 “Current Developments in CCRC
Restructuring and Workouts,” co-author,
ABI Journal, Intensive Care column, June
2012.
 “Understanding Financial Statements for
Lawyers,” presenter, ABI Spring Meeting.
 “Dealing with the Experts,” presenter, ABI
2011 Southwest Conference.
 Healthcare Providers under Pressure: Make
the Most of Challenging Times, December
2010, New Perspectives, Accounting Matters
column.
Professional qualifications and
memberships
 American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) and ABI
Healthcare Committee, member
 Turnaround Management Association, member
 Association of Insolvency and Restructuring
Advisors, member
 American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants, member
 Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor
(CIRA)
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 Certified Public Accountant (CPA) –
Connecticut and North Carolina
Community activities
 American Red Cross of the Carolinas
Piedmont Region, Board member
Education
Bachelor of Science, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. Morehead Scholar
Contact details
201 South College Street, Suite 2500
Charlotte, NC 28244
T: 704.632.3540
C: 704.906.9441
E: Scott.Davis@us.gt.com
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