Robert P. Mosier is President and Chief Executive Officer of Mosier & Company. His specialty for the past forty plus years has been turnarounds and dissolutions. For the past thirty-six years, these skills have been applied as a Court-appointed fiduciary in State and Federal Court and Federal Bankruptcy Court.
Total Court/fiduciary assignments since 1985 exceed 645 cases. In April 2009, Mr. Mosier was appointed as a Federal Equity Receiver to oversee the shutdown and windup of Private Equities Management Group (PEMG). The appointment was made in response to an SEC complaint in the United States District Court in Los Angeles. The SEC complaint alleges fraud and Ponzi-like management of approximately $1 billion worth of investment. The major investors included six banks in Taiwan. Recoveries to date exceed $360 million.
Mr. Mosier has also served as a Federal Equity Receiver for the Department of Justice on for the benefit of the Internal Revenue Service. He was appointed Independent Fiduciary at the request of the Department of Labor over a company involving ERISA violations. Bankruptcy Court related appointments include President/CEO or Chief Restructuring/Responsible Officer, Chapter 11 Trustee/Examiner or Examiner with Expanded Powers. Mr. Mosier has also served as a Provisional Director, Referee, Special Master, and the Court’s Expert Witness in multiple State Court matters. Court appointed projects generally fit into three broad asset categories: (a) operating companies or (b) complex real estate projects or (c) both.
Education includes post graduate courses at the Harvard Business School in corporate governance, insolvency, valuation and finance. Mr. Mosier is a graduate of the Bankruptcy mediation program conducted by Pepperdine Law School. Mr. Mosier earned a master’s degree from the American Graduate School of International Management and an undergraduate degree in business from Arizona State University.
Mr. Mosier is a board member of the National Association of Federal Equity Receivers where he serves as Chair of NAFER’s annual conferences held in Chicago (twice), Washington DC (twice), San Diego, Miami and Scottsdale from 2013 through 2019. He will serve as Conference Chair in Washington DC in 2020. In addition to Conference Chair, Mr. Mosier has moderated seven Judges’ panels at each of the conferences hosting three to four Federal Judges on each panel. Mr. Mosier is also the Co-Founder of the California Receivers Forum and served as President of the State Organization. He is the Publisher of Receivership News, a quarterly journal distributed to California Federal and State Judges in addition to the practitioners of the insolvency community. Mr. Mosier has served as the Co-Chair for four educational programs at Loyola Law School from 2000 to 2014 that focus on the nuances of Receiverships. Each is a two-day education session where top Receivers, lawyers, accountants and Judges provide insight into the area of receiverships with the goal of raising the level of professionalism. At the recent Loyola Receivers’ program, Mr. Mosier received the Robert Warren Award for service to the California Receiver’s Forum. Mr. Mosier has lectured at the American College of Business Court Judges, and he has presented case studies on the progression of insolvency to the Chapman University Law School class on bankruptcy. He has also published articles include The History and Profile of a Financially Troubled Company, The Benefits of a Consensual Receivership, The Ten Commandments for a Rents and Profits Receiver among others.