My Brother Bragged About Becoming Partner. He Didn’t Know the Investor Was Already Sitting There.

myself to scan for distressed assets and over-leveraged firms. They comb through filings, legal notices, credit default swap spreads, rumors in specialist forums—anything with even a faint whiff of trouble.

Blackwood lit up my screen in a cluster of red.

They were small. Aggressive. New enough to avoid deep scrutiny, old enough to have a paper trail.continue reading …