Alex Calderone is a director with the turnaround and restructuring firm of Conway MacKenzie, Inc. He specializes in providing financial advisory services to distressed businesses, with a special focus on gaming and hospitality business clients. Calderone has been actively involved in the Greektown Casino Chapter 11 bankruptcy case since April 2008, where he has managed the oversight and implementation of a number of the debtors’ key turnaround strategies. He can be reached at aac@c-m-d.com.

Terence M. Dunleavy is a shareholder in the Chicago office of Vedder Price P.C. Dunleavy is an attorney specializing in gaming commercial and regulatory matters. (Dunleavy wishes to thank his partner Michael Eidelman and associate, Stephanie Hor-Chen, for their invaluable assistance in the preparation of this article.) He can be reached at tdunleavy@vedderprice.com.

Randall A. Fine is the founder and managing director of the Fine Point Group, the gaming industry’s largest strategy consultancy and management company. Fine, a former senior executive at both Harrah’s Entertainment and Carl Icahn’s gaming company, served as the chief executive officer at Greektown Casino, leading the $225 million turnaround of the facility and full recovery of debt by bank lenders. He can be reached at rfine@thefinepointgroup.com.