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  Just For Feet  
  Client Challenge  
 
Just for Feet, Inc. was a National, 300+ location, athletic shoe retail chain with 15,000 employees.  The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in November of 1999. The matter was converted to a Chapter 7 proceeding in March 2000. In July 2000, one of our Managing Directors was elected by the creditors of the estate to serve as Chapter 7 Trustee. Shortly thereafter, Protiviti was hired as financial consultants.
 
     
  POWERFUL INSIGHTS  
 
As Financial Advisor to the Chapter 7 trustee, Protiviti managed the liquidation of a former $750 million revenue corporation. Our consultants conducted an investigation into the company's accounting practices and management/board decisions. The results of our investigation led to the inclusion of various questionable acts in a lawsuit filed against the company's directors and officers as well as its outside accountant.  The matter settled favorably, resulting in a cumulative recovery of over $80 million for the Estate. Our consultants are supporting efforts to recover funds from avoidance actions, performing claims analyses, and performing lease analyses. 
 
     
  PROVEN DELIVERY  
 

To date we have assisted the Trustee in disallowing $66 million in administrative and priority claims as well as identifying over $600 million in duplicate or amended claims.  In addition, the Trustee filed over 500 preference complaints and, in less than 4 years, had resolved all but a handful of these actions, collecting over $31 million in preference recoveries.  Protiviti’s consultants were instrumental in negotiating many of these recoveries.  The firm's tax consultants identified, and the Trustee recovered, over $20 million in tax refunds.

How We Help Companies Succeed
Professionals within Protiviti’s Corporate Restructuring & Recovery practice have served as fiduciaries in a myriad of industries, managing pre- and post-confirmation entities. Among other titles they have held, these professionals have served as Plan Administrators, Liquidating Trustees, Chief Liquidating Officer, examiners, and receivers. This extensive portfolio of experience has created a superbly skilled team of professionals that can quickly step in, understand the specific nature of the entity and manage the entity to a successful conclusion.

Protiviti provides the resources and management expertise to value underlying assets, dispose of physical assets in the manner that creates the most value for the estate, evaluate the cost-benefit of any on-going recovery actions, provide consulting support for on-going litigation, work with counsel to develop the appropriate litigation strategy and then oversee that strategy, successfully negotiate out-of-court resolutions, if appropriate, or provide expert testimony, if necessary. 

 
 
     
  Contact  
 
​Charles Goldstein
Managing Director
+1.410.454.6830
Charles.goldstein@protiviti.com
 
 
     
  About Protiviti  
 

Protiviti (www.protiviti.com) is a global business consulting and internal audit firm composed of experts specializing in risk, advisory and transaction services. The firm helps solve problems in finance and transactions, operations, technology, litigation, governance, risk, and compliance. Protiviti’s highly trained, results-oriented professionals provide a unique perspective on a wide range of critical business issues for clients in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe and the Middle East.

Protiviti has more than 60 locations worldwide and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Robert Half International Inc.
(NYSE symbol: RHI). Founded in 1948, Robert Half International is a member of the S&P 500 index.

 
 
   
     
 
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