Is my investment distressed?

How to spot challenges before it's too late

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Is my investment distressed?

Welcome back!

This is part of a two weeks series based on what I’ve seen in the distressed world:

• This week: Is my investment distressed?

  • That’s our topic for today - how to spot things before it’s too late

• Next week: My deal is distressed, now what?

  • Once you know there is a challenge coming, what do you do? I’ll break this down for both GPs and LPs separately

We’ll cover 2 topics today:

1. Preface - applicable to both posts, please don’t skip this!

2. Spotting distress

1) Preface