Deal Preparedness

Robert Berdanier is a Managing Director in Riveron’s Business Restructuring & Turnaround Services practice. His focus is on middle-market companies, both distressed and healthy, seeking financial and operational improvement through interim leadership and re-organization. Robert is a seasoned restructuring professional, with significant experience in the manufacturing, distribution & hospitality.

Randal (Randy) brings nearly 20 years of litigation experience assisting manufacturers and businesses across diverse industries nationwide in navigating complex legal landscapes and disputes in state and federal courts. He advises a wide range of domestic and international clients, particularly in tier 1 and tier 2 automotive and mobility component parts and manufacturing companies in several industry sectors such as Oil Country Tubular Goods (OCTG)/energy, life sciences, chemicals, robotics, health care, and technology. Randy has also litigated mass tort, products liability, and toxic tort matters in these areas.

Randy’s experience includes serving as first chair litigation counsel in a variety of high stakes, complex matters, managing teams of other counsel both in-firm and out-of-firm domestically and internationally.

In addition to Randy’s sophisticated litigation experience he has developed a proficiency in the laws impacting global supply chains and assists companies to holistically manage the legal aspects of their supply chains from end-to-end. Randy also advises on commercial contracting under the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) and Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG); Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) matters; cybersecurity; antitrust and securities all within the supply chain environment. He is as likely to assist clients in designing fair and reasonable allocation or force majeure programs as he is to litigate over them in court. Likewise, Randy advises clients on ESG issues throughout the supply chain, including assisting with supply chain ESG audits.