EDS’ Investment Recovery Systems® Group provides collateral-asset management and strategic loss and risk-limitation services, and handles all efforts related to the management, recovery and/or redeployment or divestiture of all capital-asset classes including but not limited to industrial, manufacturing and distribution plants and facilities for asset-based lenders, investors and multinational corporations throughout the world. We handle all asset classes, real and movable, and specialize in handling contentious replevin related and environmentally sensitive special-asset situations and, the disposition of nonessential and overlapping corporate assets through acquisition, consolidation and restructuring transactions.
Our Recovery specialists marshal onsite 24/7/365 throughout the world to provide interim/crisis, workout and turnaround management services to secure and operate troubled accounts facing operational or financial challenges. Our experts work closely with the secured party and their legal representatives to protect, maintain and enhance the going concern value of the business and business assets that might otherwise be lost during bankruptcies, foreclosures, restructurings and replevin actions while actively pursuing permanent solutions.
Our Investment Recovery Centers of America® unit (Recovery Centers) own/operate strategically located multipurpose venues for the storage and remarketing of recovered assets. Our full service Recovery Centers fulfill EDS’ unique capacity to immediately marshal our client’s recovered moveable assets, land and marine, to our secure facilities for disposition. EDS’ flagship Recovery Center is the Port of Slidell in Slidell, Louisiana (Greater Gulf South, USA).
PICASSO OR VELVET ELVIS…
Today’s business climate dictates that investment—asset recovery and especially replevin related activities must be handled by practiced—experienced professionals who possess a keen appreciation of the legal exposures and environmental risks surrounding recovery activities.
It is often said that ‘liquidation-is-an-art’ and that ‘art-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder’. Think of a Picasso or a Velvet Elvis. While both are appreciated by their respective audience as ‘art’—in appreciation and value—they are worlds apart. To appreciate EDS is to appreciate the difference. We are not dot-com auctioneers, used equipment jockeys nor two-guys-and-a-truck. While these middlemen may have their time and place in certain limited circumstances, we regard their methods as often dangerous and their business practices often counter to the client’s best interests. EDS’ Investment Recovery Systems® provides the professional alternative.
EDS’ methods are commensurate with the client’s best interests. Our philosophy stipulates that, with few exceptions, anything that goes to auction(eers) is regarded as a loss for the client. Our fee structures are incentive-based and promote results that often exceed our client’s established goals. This insures the highest and best values for our clients’ in the conversion of their capital assets to cash, and relieves them of the frustrations, limitations, and especially the risks so often associated with questionable middlemen.
Our comprehensive services include: 24/7/365 Keepers, dismantling, shipping, storing, maintenance, repair, and remarketing. We are particularly skilled at handling marine-related machinery and equipment, land-based and floating-assets e.g. inland vessels, workboats, barges, cranes, drilling equipment, marine equipment and cargoes along the Greater Gulf Coast of the United States at our flagship Recovery Center, the Port of Slidell. Our technicians are specifically trained in machinery and equipment removal and our practiced methods and procedures serve to protect and enhance the value of our client’s assets unlike equipment maulers so often associated with recovery activities.
EDS’ global remarketing efforts are handled by our polished market-makers who are particularly skilled in building markets and in seeking out and identifying end-user purchasers not middlemen nor dealers for secure private-treaty sales. These efforts translate into significantly greater returns for our clients. Remarketing can be accomplished either on-site or from one of our strategically located Investment Recovery Centers of America® venues.
EDS is distinguished by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) for its award-winning environmentally sensitive special asset work and its knowledge and understanding of the complex environmental related lender liability and legal issues surrounding the investment—asset recovery and replevin process. EDS is recognized by the USEPA as the only company of its kind allowed to conduct investment recovery for lenders on Superfund Sites. Additionally, EDS is pleased to provide Keeper services to the United States Marshal Service.
The choice is yours… Picasso or Velvet Elvis.
