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Drattell Managing Partner Praesidian Capital, LLC “By hiring Brandlin & Associates, we are assured of having experienced, senior professionals assist with our financial due diligence.  The Brandlin team quickly earns the confidence of management, focuses on the salient issues, offers value added solutions, and delivers a comprehensive report that is key to completing the transaction.”    Scott Steele JMH Capital “It is my pleasure working with our divisional presidents, marketing personnel and Brandlin & Associates, who we consider an extension of our internal team. Together, we quickly identify a target company's opportunities and uncover issues in historical operations to enable informed decisions."    Rick Ginsberg Chief Financial Officer Sanders Industries “Brandlin & Associates provides due diligence reports that are precise, thorough and easy-to-read. It is a pleasure working with Brandlin's highly experienced professionals who focus on delivering accurate and critical information that I need to make a sound credit decision.    Joe Sum National Underwriting Manager PNC Business Credit “Brandlin & Associates invests time with us at the outset of an engagement to understand our goals. This process enables them to deliver the information we are seeking, not just a generic report. They have earned our utmost confidence.”    Mark Sampson Managing Director Vintage Fund Management, LLC “Brandlin & Associates has consistently delivered strong results for us on complicated engagements, quickly and price efficiently. They have proven extremely valuable in providing financial due diligence supporting our initial investment process as well as on a variety of post-investment projects.”    Cameron Breitner Director Centre Partners “After we closed our first fund and began rolling out our investment strategy and procedures, Brandlin & Associates was a logical resource for aiding our financial due diligence… With their help, we have invested in successful companies, avoided investing in what appeared to be successful companies but were not, and, most importantly, have built a strong investment track record that has allowed us to raise additional and much larger funds.”    Gregory B. Davis Principal Key Principal Partners LLC Top of Page PORTFOLIO COMPANY REVIEWS “Brandlin & Associates helped guide the Bank and its syndicate through a very difficult situation with a portfolio company. Jeff and his team have a unique ability to take mountains of information, quickly identify key areas of focus and summarize pertinent issues in a succinct report. We appreciated their flexibility and responsiveness, and highly valued their input and guidance.”    Scott Lane Vice President Bank of America “We remain clients because they continually provide thorough, reliable and consistent work that is also cost effective. We know our work is handled by a partner or someone with equal experience.”    Jon Herbst Principal Key Principal Partners Top of Page LITIGATION SUPPORT AND FORENSIC ACCOUNTING "In the dark world of forensic accounting, Brandlin & Associates is the best in the business. For the last 20 years, I have counted on Brandlin when things go wrong with a loan. The firm has earned its top tier reputation through its consistent and relentless efforts to get the hard facts and help resolve any problems. Brandlin is my fraud expert of choice."    David Kantes Former President, Special Assets Division GMAC Commercial Finance "Brandlin & Associates' contributions as our forensic auditor and mediation consultant in a complex fraudulent loan matter were critical to the successful settlement of the case. Brandlin was involved from the beginning, gathering the data necessary to establish asset values for the receivership and grounds for fraud litigation. They were critical in diagramming where our loan dollars went, in a circular fraud among multiple companies. And, they were committed through the end educating the mediator about accounting issues and the complexity of the fraud to achieve a satisfactory resolution."    Henry (Hank) J. Hajdas Senior Consultant Comerica Bank “Brandlin & Associates provided wonderful services to our firm and our mutual client on a recent matter. I appreciate [Brandlin's] willingness to work on an expedited matter and their prompt response to our mutual client's needs.”    Steven A. Mindel, Esq. Feinberg, Mindel, Brandt, Klein & Kline, LLP Top of Page “The Brandlin team has performed a politically sensitive review of some of the consent decree issues between the Federal Trade Commission and a major software company. They have conducted this audit review with the timeliness and accuracy that the FTC has required. The FTC is very satisfied.”    John Rehfeld FTC Monitor Top of Page FINANCIAL ADVISORY AND WORKOUTS “When we retained a Brandlin & Associates professional as an interim CFO for one of our portfolio companies, we could not have imagined the extent of the contribution he would make to the company.  He exceeded our expectations and those of our management team, extending far beyond financial and accounting functions into general management practices, operations, asset utilization, reporting and business metrics.  In addition, his energy and constructive, can-do attitude had a significant, positive impact on the management team during a critical transition time for the company.”    Michael H. Beaumont Managing Partner Industrial Growth Industries "For over 15 years, I have been counting on Jeff Brandlin and his staff to provide insight on workout situations. They always provide a thorough evaluation and prepare a high quality report. Brandlin & Associates always delivers what they promise. Their responsiveness makes me feel like I am their only client!"    Miles McManus Director Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. “Brandlin & Associates provided the information that allowed us to evaluate our situation. Their documentation was thorough, reliable and, most importantly, presented in a coherent, easy to follow, logical manner. They did this efficiently and without wasting our resources or time.”    Robert Corsentino Daniel Gallagher     Group Senior Vice President Associate Vice President     LaSalle Business Credit, Inc. LaSalle Business Credit, Inc. INSOLVENCY AND REORGANIZATION SERVICES “Brandlin & Associates excels at making the complicated comprehensible. They were able to get their arms around the financial status of a troubled portfolio company very quickly and, more importantly, provide the lending group recommendations as to how to proceed with the relationship. I also have utilized their services for pre-funding due diligence, where they quickly ‘normalized’ very complicated financial statements so we could decide whether to move forward with the transaction.”    Neil Marks Managing Partner Praesidian Capital, LLC Top of Page ACCOUNTING AND CONSULTING SERVICES "Brandlin & Associates handles all of our accounting needs, leaving me free to manage the rest of the business. Admittedly, I am a demanding client, and Brandlin's staff competently and accurately takes care of whatever we require. I never have any reason to doubt the quality of the financial statements, whether our accounts payable and receivable are under control or if our bills will be paid on time. Metapa definitely benefits from fully outsourcing our accounting department to Brandlin."    David Powell CEO Metapa, Inc. "Jeff Brandlin is at the top of my list as an advisor to my business. Final Draft benefits from the senior level attention we get from Brandlin & Associates, helping us to attain greater levels of success. The Brandlin team genuinely cares about providing the highest level of service, and each person proactively lends their accounting knowledge for the benefit of the client."    Marc Madnick President & CEO Final Draft, Inc. "Brandlin & Associates is incredibly effective as our outsourced provider of accounting services. They successfully have integrated themselves into our operations, helping us to achieve our goals in the areas of accounting as well as fundraising and tax planning. They are very conscientious about guarding our sensitive, privileged information, intuitively understand our deadlines and always respond to our needs in a very timely manner. We assessed the cost of building our own accounting department, and there is no question that Brandlin provides a cost effective solution."    Michael Jenkinson CEO Urban Studios, Inc. 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