Donald (“Skip”) Bean, Jr., Director
Mr. Bean is a senior executive and attorney with broad experience in international debt restructuring and litigation in emerging market countries. Recognized as an expert in the area of special assets, including the recapitalization of distressed businesses, he has been an invited speaker at numerous international conferences of development finance institutions and export credit agencies around the world. Mr. Bean was CEO of Global Recovery Group, LLC for over a dozen years. While there, he oversaw management of over $1.5 billion of problem trade and development loans in emerging markets world wide as the exclusive recovery contractor for the Export-Import Bank of the United States and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. His company also represented the European Investment Bank (the investment bank for the European Union), FMO (the Dutch development bank), KfW (the German development bank) and other development finance institutions and export credit agencies of countries in North America, Europe and Asia.
Mr. Bean’s experience is wide-ranging, having started out practicing law in large firms before becoming a founding partner in 1994 of Fensterheim & Bean, P.C., a boutique law firm based in Washington D.C. which handles complex civil litigation cases. He had previously served as Director of Real Estate for the Cabinet-level Oversight Board of the Resolution Trust Corporation, in which capacity he was responsible for advising the Federal Government on policies concerning the management and disposition of over $100 billion of real estate assets acquired from insolvent savings and loan institutions. Mr. Bean holds a BA degree (with honors) from the University of Chicago College, an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and a JD from the University of Chicago Law School.
Mr. Bean’s experience is wide-ranging, having started out practicing law in large firms before becoming a founding partner in 1994 of Fensterheim & Bean, P.C., a boutique law firm based in Washington D.C. which handles complex civil litigation cases. He had previously served as Director of Real Estate for the Cabinet-level Oversight Board of the Resolution Trust Corporation, in which capacity he was responsible for advising the Federal Government on policies concerning the management and disposition of over $100 billion of real estate assets acquired from insolvent savings and loan institutions. Mr. Bean holds a BA degree (with honors) from the University of Chicago College, an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and a JD from the University of Chicago Law School.