Robert P. Mosier
rmosier@mosierco.com

Robert P. Mosier is President and Chief Executive Officer of Mosier & Company. His specialty for the past thirty plus years has been turnarounds and dissolutions. For the past twenty plus years, he has applied these skills as a Court-appointed fiduciary in State and Federal Court and Federal Bankruptcy Court.

Total Court assignments since 1985 exceed 450 cases in a variety of capacities ranging from President and CEO or Chief Responsible Officer to Receiver, Trustee, Examiner, Examiner with Expanded Powers, and Provisional Director. He has served as the Court’s own Referee, Special Master, and Expert Witness. Projects generally fit into two categories: (a) operating companies or (b) complex real estate projects.

Mr. Mosier has served as a court-approved President & CEO of two Chapter 11 Debtors: (1) United Education & Software – a one-time $100 million, publicly traded company specializing in proprietary education and (2) Premier Laser Systems, Inc., a one-time $200 million market cap company specializing in laser applications in a variety of medical fields. Please see the Case Update Section for a complete description of these cases and the results.

In Mr. Mosier’s role as Receiver (the majority of the Court assignments), he taken financial control of a variety of operating companies and real estate projects. For operating companies, assignments include turnarounds, dissolutions, and dispute resolutions. These are applicable in general litigation, defaults and family law or partnership disputes. On the real estate side, he has disposed of several thousand acres of raw land slated for development and in various stages – some real estate has been further developed in order to improve yields for harmed investors. Management, control and sale of commercial office buildings, warehouse space, strip shopping centers and multi family housing projects round out this experience. Mr. Mosier has also overseen the build-out of a shopping center.

Other Court appointments include Interim Trustee in contested probate cases, provisional Director in corporate disputes where the board is deadlocked, accounting referee to provide the Court and the parties with a neutral accounting, and special master to act as the Court’s overseer in cases that do not rise to the level of the appointment of a Receiver.

Education includes post graduate work at Harvard Business School in corporate governance and insolvency plus Pepperdine Law School’s mediation program. Mr. Mosier earned a Masters Degree from the American Graduate School of International Management and an undergraduate degree in business from Arizona State University.

Mr. Mosier is Co-Founder of the California Receivers Forum and serves as Publisher of Receivership News, a quarterly journal dedicated to improving standards in the receivership community. He is active in the Turnaround Management Association and the Orange County and California Bankruptcy Forums. Mr. Mosier's published articles include The History and Profile of a Financially Troubled Company and The Benefits of a Consensual Receivership. He frequently lectures on insolvency.