It all started in 1978 when…

George Putnam, III, as a young attorney, recently minted from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School, found himself engaged in the Reading Railroad bankruptcy. Fascinated with the amount of information disclosed in the bankruptcy process that nobody bothered to read, he started the Turnaround Letter, an investment newsletter for retail investors, which still exists today.

In writing the Turnaround Letter, George sought value in unloved companies. Often these companies had recently emerged from bankruptcy and, while they were, understandably, tarred by the stigma of failure, the underlying businesses were still valuable.

As part of the research process, George started collecting information on business filings from the federal bankruptcy courts. This was all pre-PACER…back then, he’d get them straight from the printers. To this day, we still have rooms full of these old filings… probably the only such collection in the world.

Fast forward to the present, and George’s fledgling newsletter publishing company has become New Generation Research, the preeminent source for in-depth information on corporate bankruptcies and distressed companies.

Our flagship institutional product is BankruptcyData, the industry's most extensive database of business bankruptcy information. With our data collection, the analysis of our in house editorial and research teams, and our technology platform, our specialty is clarifying the data—attenuating the noise and amplifying the signal in the bankruptcy information environment.

BankruptcyData allows subscribers to spend less time looking for business bankruptcy information and more time using it.

BANKRUPTCYDATA

• Streams dockets from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for all business bankruptcy filings.

• Assists subscribers in monitoring bankruptcy cases by writing about significant and actionable events for “priority” cases. (Companies with public equity or debt, with particularly high profiles, or with liabilities in excess of 50MM USD.)

• Provides a research platform where subscribers can query and export data from our robust database of business bankruptcy filing information.

• Supplies professional retention data, including rates and final fees.

• Serves as the “hub” of business bankruptcy information that bankruptcy professionals have trusted and relied upon since 1986.

WHO USES BANKRUPTCYDATA?

BankruptcyData is used by professionals and firms, both large and small, with an interest in the bankruptcy sector. Here are just a few examples of how BankruptcyData subscribers use our service.

• Investment professionals identifying or monitoring distressed investment opportunities.

• Law firms tracking who is being hired by whom and for how much—in other words, to gather "competitive intelligence."

• Restructuring firms staying on top of existing customers and identifying new prospects.

• Academics researching historical information and/or looking for trends within the industry.

• Educational institutions as a reference resource for various data model configurations and student dissertations.

• Liquidators and auction houses focusing on distressed assets.

• Hedge funds and private equity firms identifying distressed investment opportunities.

• Real Estate companies seeking distressed properties.

• Lenders securing debtor-in-possession funding opportunities.

• Businesses finding charged-off receivables and remnant assets.

• Companies purchasing default judgements.

• Insurance and financial institutions supporting their risk assessment applications.

• Data aggregators importing our data to support business service platforms.

• Companies running our data against customer, prospect and vendor files.

CUSTOM BANKRUPTCY RESEARCH

NGR is uniquely qualified to provide timely, accurate, and hard-to-duplicate research support. Our experienced research professionals have aided numerous leading bankruptcy practitioners in many different capacities—including financial analysis, litigation support, forecasting, and expert commentary for media outlets.

DATA LICENSING

As NGR's reputation in the corporate bankruptcy sector grew so did the number of requests from various businesses seeking to license data in bulk for use in various in-house applications. We currently provide millions of records annually to banks, insurance companies, investment firms, business service data aggregators and more.

THE BANKRUPTCY YEARBOOK ALMANAC & Directory

Since 1990, bankruptcy professionals have relied on The Bankruptcy Yearbook & Almanac as an encyclopedic source of bankruptcy statistics and insight. This industry standard provides essential bankruptcy information with more than 500 pages of facts, figures, graphs, research, and commentary covering all aspects of bankruptcy.