Corporate Repair and Growth Strategies, Inc. is a boutique special situations investment manager and advisory firm built on three decades of institutional experience — and a conviction that most troubled assets fail not because recovery is impossible, but because the right expertise is rarely deployed to pursue it.
CRAGSI exists to recover intrinsic value from assets that conventional markets, processes, and advisors simply aren't able to understand, price, or exit at fair value. We believe that patience, integrated expertise, and aligned incentives — not speed-to-liquidation — are the hallmarks of genuine special situations practice.
Our mandate is to serve institutional asset holders, corporate executives, and founders with the same institutional-grade discipline that has characterized our team's work across three decades and multiple market cycles — from the S&L crisis through the housing bubble, COVID, and the current distressed VC ecosystem.
We have made careers out of getting paid for patience. Distressed situations that resist quick resolution are precisely where our integrated platform creates the most value — and where we are most differentiated.
Every engagement is conducted with the full weight of fiduciary obligation. We do not take shortcuts, manage to optics, or pursue outcomes that serve our interests at the expense of our clients'.
Financial, regulatory, and operational disciplines, working alongside our co-founding law firm.* The best special situations outcomes are never the product of a single dimension of expertise — they require all of them, simultaneously, without institutional lag.
We don't take on what we don't believe we can execute and win. We will tell you directly — at the outset — whether CRAGSI is the right firm for your situation.
*CRAGSI is not a law firm and does not engage in the practice of law or provide legal advice. CRAGSI is co-founded and co-owned by the law firm of Groshoff And Urien LLP, whose attorneys are authorized to practice in the state courts of California, New York, Massachusetts, Ohio, and several federal jurisdictions.
PBGC Special Situations Investment Manager
Selected to succeed J.P. Morgan Investment Management as Special Situations Investment Manager for the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (“PBGC”), effective March 1, 2026.
Pacholder → JPMorgan → CRAGSI
CRAGSI's co-founding Managing Directors are independent, with more than 30 years of continuous special situations experience — one of the deepest institutional lineages of any boutique in the space.
PBGC Relationship Since 1997
CRAGSI team members have managed assets for and alongside PBGC continuously since 1997 — including Cyndi Lanning, CRAGSI's Chief Compliance Officer, who began working with special situations assets including the PBGC portfolio in 1994.
Key facts about CRAGSI, with public records verifying the PBGC award →
Initial consultations are free and confidential (and in some situations, also legally privileged). No obligation. Really.
We'll tell you honestly whether CRAGSI is the right firm for your situation, and if your situation is the right one for us. We don't take on what we don't believe we can execute and win.
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