Advisor in debt restructuring process for creditors and shareholders.

Benjamin has been responsible of creating lasting client relationships while being project-leader, which has led to create revenue and ensure profitability levels for the M&A and Forensics practice in PwC Mexico. During this time, Benjamin has successfully developed financial technical knowledge of senior and staff members during the economy recovery in Mexico for M&A projects as well as in Forensic analysis during the last two years.During this period, Benjamin has been involved in the following projects:1) Helped a US client to quantify risks on FCPA compliance for its investments in Bogota, Colombia.2) Gas drilling company: Helped the client to accelerate cash in order to optimize working capital in the short term (2-4 month period) as the Company entered a restructuring process and a financial distress acquisition by a competitor.3) Automotive industry: Net Working Capital analysis for a US based target acquisition.4) Retail industry: FCPA compliance analysis.5) Automotive and glass containers: Credit and interest rate analysis.6) Media services: Forensic investigation (Financial reporting to US based corporate and top executives bonus compensation scheme).7) Housing sector: Advice our client in understanding its counterpart business plan and other transactions related to Debt repayment.8) Packaging: FCPA evaluation for a Due Diligence process.9) Pharmaceutical: Forensic investigation related to inventory and the ERP related reports.10) Logistics: FCPA evaluation for a Due Diligence process.11) Health: Anti-Bribery evaluation for a Due Diligence process.12) Pharmaceutical: FCPA evaluation for a Due Diligence process.13) Automotive: Forensic investigation of potential misrepresentation of accounting records.

As a Manager, Benjamin was involved in the following projects among others:1) Steel and mining industry: Financial distress analysis for a Company under Mexican Chapter 11, working for the creditors in analyzing the Company’s business plan and projections.2) Growth enhancers and agro industry: Turnaround management based on cash acceleration and optimizing its working capital investment.3) Automotive and glass industry: Supporting the client in documenting its business plan to be presented to its creditors during a debt restructuring process and advisory during the financial due diligence of creditors performed by a third party advisor.4) Conglomerate: Supporting the client in documenting its business plan to present to its creditors and assessing the quality of financial projections during a debt restructuring process. Also helped in presenting the Company’s business plan during the financial due diligence by its creditors’ advisors.5) Textile industry: Supporting the client in documenting its business plan to present to its creditors during a debt restructuring process and assessing the quality of its projections to the Company and its debt restructuring advisors leading the project. 6) Education services: Financial due diligence of four Mexican based universities for a key player in the domestic market.7) Bottling industry: Financial due diligence for a strategic target (evaluating a synergy in scale economy). 8) Bottling industry: Financial due diligence for a strategic target (market share expansion in Argentina).9) Automotive industry: Fraud investigation (misappropriation of assets in the handling of scrap inventory).10) Automotive industry: Fraud investigation (misappropriation of assets through the subcontracting of vendors).11) Energy and construction industry: Dispute analysis after the acquisition of a Brazilian target underperforming.12) Steel industry: Fraud investigation (embezzlement through a T&E scheme).

1) Steel industry: Supporting the creditors in assessing the Company’s business plan of an underperforming steel company affected by the steel price significant drops worldwide and assessment through the possibility of a successful restructuring process for stakeholders involved.2) Chemicals and other derivates: Supporting the client in documenting and updating its business plan presented to its creditors and preparing reports related to cash monitoring.3) Retail industry: Liquidation analysis for investors.4) Water treatment industry: Financial due diligence for a strategic buyer in order to increase its market share in the domestic market.5) Insurance services: Fraud investigation (revenue recognition scheme performed by Top executives to improve their bonus payoffs).6) Electronics and mobile components: Fraud investigation (adjustments in the financial reporting of a SEC company).