C.H. Brown is the Founder of Restructuring Advisory Group and is an expert in all facets of chapter 11 reorganizations

C.H. Brown is the Founder of Restructuring Advisory Group and is an expert in all facets of chapter 11 reorganizations and the restructuring of real estate debt. Mr. Brown first began consulting to chapter 11 clients in 1990. He has written over 300 bankruptcy reorganization plans that provided both debt and equity financing for the real estate projects. In addition to consulting to property owners in chapter 11, Mr. Brown has, as a principal, restructured the debt on 2 of his own projects throu...

C.H. Brown is the Founder of Restructuring Advisory Group and is an expert in all facets of chapter 11 reorganizations and the restructuring of real estate debt. Mr. Brown first began consulting to chapter 11 clients in 1990. He has written over 300 bankruptcy reorganization plans that provided both debt and equity financing for the real estate projects. In addition to consulting to property owners in chapter 11, Mr. Brown has, as a principal, restructured the debt on 2 of his own projects through chapter 11 and understands the process from the property owners’ perspective. Mr. Brown sits on the Advisory Board of Capital Underwriters Fund, a bankruptcy specific fund that finances and invests in real estate projects that are in chapter 11. Restructuring Advisory Group is the exclusive underwriter for the fund which provides super-priority loans, take-out financing, new value (equity) and credit enhancement to chapter 11 property owners. A 1979 graduate of UCLA, C.H. Brown began his career in real estate that same year as a commercial real estate agent in the Silicon Valley, specializing in R&D leasing and the sale of R&D land for spec development. He was subsequently recruited by Crocker Mortgage Company and joined them as an Assistant Vice-President in their Mortgage Banking Division where he specialized in the analysis, underwriting and placement of commercial real estate loans in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1986 he was recruited by Trammell Crow Residential Company and jointly opened their office in Orange County as their Director of Land Acquisitions where he began his career in the development of residential properties. He subsequently opened the California offices of Worthing Western Corporation as its Vice President of Development in charge of all of the Companies residential development in the state of California. His Worthing Western projects were underwritten for and joint ventured with Travelers Insurance Company. In his capacities with Trammell Crow, Worthing, and thereafter as an independent Developer, he acquired, developed and financed over four hundred million dollars in multi-family residential properties and single family residential properties throughout the southern and northern California regions, Arkansas and Nevada. He has in addition acquired and entitled in various partnerships over 2,000 acres of raw land which has been developed into subdivisions totaling over 3,000 homes and brings his 30 years of development