Brent King is a management and advisory professional with 35 years of experience as an executive leader and over 25 years of experience as a corporate insolvency leader.
Mr. King has served as the CEO, CRO, Judicial Receiver, Chapter 11 Trustee, Interim CFO, or senior advisor to both public and private corporations in wide range of industries that include pork processing; swine, beef and dairy production; John Deere dealerships; row crop and grain production; vegetable production and distribution; soybean crushing; grain elevators; biodiesel and ethanol production; agricultural equipment manufacturing; truck body manufacturing; hospitals; plastic injection; trucking logistics; and construction.
Mr. King is a Certified Turnaround Professional, a member of the TMA, ABI, and a State Director of the Commercial Receiver Association. He earned a BFA in Music Theory from Western Illinois University in Macomb, IL and an MFA in Cello Performance from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. He is the named inventor of several US and foreign patents, an instrument-rated pilot, a musician, a fine woodworker, and a graduate of The Leadership Trust.
- Bankruptcy Proceedings
- Chapter 11 Trustee
- Crisis Management
- CRO
- Financial Advisor
- Interim Management
- Investment Banking
- Judicial Receiver
- M&A Advisor
- Restructurings & Turnarounds
- Easterday Ranches: Financial Advisor to the Unsecured Creditor’s
- Committee of this Washington-based, 22,000-acre cattle ranch and crop farm that perpetuated a $280 million cattle billing-fraud scheme in the Western District of Washington
- Express Grain Terminals: Financial Advisor and Investment Banker to the
- secured creditor in this 3.5-million-bu. grain elevator with a 1,500 ton-per-day soybean crush plant that perpetuated a $50 million grain sale fraud in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, in Central Mississippi
- Nova BioSource Fuels: CRO of this publicly traded, multi-state biodiesel refinery with 60 MGPY capacity and state-of-the-art refinery facility, which was, at the time of filing Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, the largest B100 refinery in the US
- Central Illinois Energy: CRO of this 50 MGPY ethanol manufacturer with a farmer-cooperative grain elevator and electric co-generation facility, in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
- Moon Ridge Foods: Judicial Receiver and Investment Banker to this live pork processing facility with up to 5,000 head per-day capacity
- DCA Outdoors: Financial Advisor (pre-bankruptcy) to USA’s largest shade tree grower with tree farm operations from Oregon to Kentucky
- BelaFlor Nursery: Financial Advisor to the USA’s 15th largest greenhouse operator in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
- Millenkamp Dairy: Financial and operations advisor to a unique creditor of Millenkamp Dairy in the farm’s Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
- Sow Operation US/Canada: CRO and Financial Advisor to this insolvent, 20,000 sow farm with weaned-pig and contract finisher operations
- Hillsboro Community Hospital: Chapter 11 Trustee of this Kansas based, critical access hospital, following its role in a $1.4 billion dollar billing fraud scheme
- Rock Medical Group: Chapter 11 Trustee of this Omaha-based medical staffing company
- I70 Hospital: Judicial Receiver of this Missouri based, critical access hospital, previously used with ten other community hospitals to perpetuate a $1.4 Billion dollar billing fraud scheme.
- Grisham Farms: Interim Operations Manager of this Southern Missouri poultry feed ingredient producer that recycled human food products into poultry-feed through its Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
- Murphy Farms: Judicial Receiver of this 5,000-acre corn and soybean farm in Central Illinois
- CT&T: Judicial Receiver of this 2,500-sow, weaned-pig production facility
- Mor-Agra Farms: Advisor to the secured creditor in the Receivership of this 22,000-acre, Non-GMO and Organic corn and soy producer.
- John Deere Ag Dealerships: Sell side, buy side, and secured creditor advisor at multiple, large, US-based John Deere Ag Dealerships.
- Mag Trucks/Apex Specialty Vehicles: Judicial Receiver of this insolvent manufacturer of custom vehicles with a mid-duty truck dealership.
- Etcher Farm: CRO of an Iowa and Illinois based dairy and row crop farm in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.
- Charcoal Production Facility: Judicial Receiver of a Missouri-based producer of hardwood charcoal.
- Jonesburg Sawmill: Judicial Receiver of this hardwood sawmill located in East Central Missouri.
- Crop Farm 25,000-acres: Financial Advisor to an insolvent grain and row crop farm in the Central Plains.
- Crop Farm 20,000 acres: Financial advisor to this insolvent grain, row crop, and beef operation in the North-Central Plains.
- Mushroom Grower and Distributor: Financial Advisor to the secured creditor of a large, Pennsylvania mushroom grower, preparing to file Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.
- Terra/Blue Sun Energy: Financial Advisor to this 20 MGPY biodiesel refinery with an advanced jet biofuel pilot plant in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.
- Eagle Homes – Stonebrook Crossing: Judicial Receiver of this insolvent residential and commercial real estate development in West-Central Illinois.
- Kewanee Corporation: CRO of this steel door and vinyl window manufacturer in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.
- Classic Coach: CRO of this accessible van manufacturer in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.
- Ag-Gressor Manufacturing: CRO of this truck body manufacturer of self-propelled agriculture sprayers and municipal sludge applicators in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.
- Turnaround Management Association (TMA)
- American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI)
- Commercial Receiver Association (CRA), State Director
- King is a fourth-generation farmer from Illinois who resides in Kansas City
- He is the named inventor of several US and foreign patents, an instrument-rated pilot, a musician, a fine woodworker.
- He is a graduate of The Leadership Trust