Full Name
Allen Wilen
Job Title
Partner
Company
Eisner Advisory Group LLC
Speaker Bio
Allen Wilen is a Partner and serves as the National Director of the Financial Advisory Services Group. In this role, he leads a team of over 200 professionals across the firm’s Restructuring, Forensic, Damages, Valuation, and Transaction Advisory practices.
Allen specializes in corporate distress, debt restructuring, and business disputes. He has a national reputation for leading distressed healthcare institutions through restructuring and financial renewal. In addition, Allen has assisted businesses in the Industrial Services, Manufacturing, and Retail sectors. He has more than 30 years of financial and accounting experience in both national and regional public accounting firms.
Allen has been involved in numerous complex matters requiring expertise in forensic accounting and operational analysis. He has been qualified as an expert in numerous state and federal courts throughout the United States.
Allen has represented numerous distressed businesses in navigating the complexity and confusion of the turnaround, sale, and liquidation processes. Allen has been appointed in numerous fiduciary capacities by both federal and state courts, including as Receiver, Special Fiscal Agent, Liquidating Trustee, Examiner, Provisional Director, and Chief Restructuring Officer. In addition, he often represents court-appointed trustees, receivers, and examiners and has been involved in numerous high-profile cases.
Allen has authored articles and journal articles, including several sections in the Turnaround Management Association’s Body of Knowledge and a chapter on Financial Reporting in Bankruptcy for the American Bankruptcy Institute’s CRO Handbook. In addition, as an INSOL Fellow, he has co-authored a guidebook for US Insolvency. He has also been a speaker on several topics, including director and officer liability in non-profit entities, prepackaged chapter 11s, valuation, professional ethics, and distressed healthcare-related entities. In 2021, Global M&A Network named Allen the Turnaround Consultant of the Year. Most recently, he served as Global President of the Turnaround Management Association (“TMA”) for the organization’s 2024 term.
Allen specializes in corporate distress, debt restructuring, and business disputes. He has a national reputation for leading distressed healthcare institutions through restructuring and financial renewal. In addition, Allen has assisted businesses in the Industrial Services, Manufacturing, and Retail sectors. He has more than 30 years of financial and accounting experience in both national and regional public accounting firms.
Allen has been involved in numerous complex matters requiring expertise in forensic accounting and operational analysis. He has been qualified as an expert in numerous state and federal courts throughout the United States.
Allen has represented numerous distressed businesses in navigating the complexity and confusion of the turnaround, sale, and liquidation processes. Allen has been appointed in numerous fiduciary capacities by both federal and state courts, including as Receiver, Special Fiscal Agent, Liquidating Trustee, Examiner, Provisional Director, and Chief Restructuring Officer. In addition, he often represents court-appointed trustees, receivers, and examiners and has been involved in numerous high-profile cases.
Allen has authored articles and journal articles, including several sections in the Turnaround Management Association’s Body of Knowledge and a chapter on Financial Reporting in Bankruptcy for the American Bankruptcy Institute’s CRO Handbook. In addition, as an INSOL Fellow, he has co-authored a guidebook for US Insolvency. He has also been a speaker on several topics, including director and officer liability in non-profit entities, prepackaged chapter 11s, valuation, professional ethics, and distressed healthcare-related entities. In 2021, Global M&A Network named Allen the Turnaround Consultant of the Year. Most recently, he served as Global President of the Turnaround Management Association (“TMA”) for the organization’s 2024 term.
