Mr. Barbee has more than 15 years experience advising companies and managing engagements that involve bankruptcy, divestitures, acquisitions, business valuation, and fraud investigation. In addition, he has extensive hands-on experience working with debtors and creditors in bankruptcy matters that includes everything from viability analysis, divestiture of assets and closing facilities and operations to business valuation, insolvency and preferential/fraudulent conveyances.

Andy’s brings a diversity of business expertise to Aurora’s clients because he has served clients in a wide variety of industries that includes textile, machinery and equipment, automotive parts and steel manufacturers, distribution, insurance, construction, real estate, technology and automotive, heavy equipment and hardware retailers.

As a member of the Financial Advisory Services practice of Coopers & Lybrand for five years he helped a $100 million textile manufacturer through the bankruptcy process, including selling off a foreign subsidiary, closing one plant and determining which business lines to exit.

In addition, Andy has been controller of a $40 million manufacturer where he assisted in obtaining new financing and implemented a new information system that reduced financial statement preparation time from 90 to seven days and was interim CFO for a $100 million multi-location automobile dealer in bankruptcy where he closed two unprofitable locations and sold a used car location and a franchised new car location for $2.6 mm more than their collateral value.

Most recently, Andy has worked in the Economic Advisory Services (EAS) practice of Grant Thornton. The EAS practice assists clients in bankruptcy, business valuation, fraud investigations, and litigation support. When he was hired, the group had one person and less than $100,000 in revenues. Over his six years with the firm, Andy was integral to growing the EAS practice to over $6 million in revenues and 25 professionals.

Andy is a director and past president of the Turnaround Management Association, Carolinas Chapter; director and finance committee chair for the Children’s Law Center; and treasurer of the FBI Citizens Academy Alumni Association.

Andy holds a BBA from Florida Atlantic University, a Masters of Accounting from Florida International University and is a Certified Public Accountant in North Carolina. He is also a Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor and is accredited in Business Valuation by the American Institute of CPA’s. He resides in Charlotte, NC.