Fees
A flat fee, known before we start
Every engagement is a fixed fee, quoted in writing before any work begins, keyed to the size of the schedule against your company. We take no percentage of your settlement, your recovery, or the reduction achieved.
Keyed to the schedule against you
Under $100,000 scheduled
$2,500 flat
$100,000 to $250,000 scheduled
$3,500 flat
$250,000 to $500,000 scheduled
$5,000 flat
Over $500,000 scheduled
Quoted on scope, fixed in writing before we begin
“Scheduled” means the 90-day payment total shown for your company in the debtor’s Statement of Financial Affairs — the same figure a demand is typically built from. It appears on the snapshot if you received one from us.
Claims-objection engagements: the same schedule
When an omnibus objection attacks your proof of claim, the engagement is priced on the same brackets — keyed to the filed claim amount subject to the objection, the amount shown for your claim on the objection’s exhibit.
Claim under $100,000
$2,500 flat
Claim $100,000 to $250,000
$3,500 flat
Claim $250,000 to $500,000
$5,000 flat
Claim over $500,000
Quoted on scope, fixed in writing before we begin
The first answer is free: send the notice and your claim backup, and before any engagement we’ll tell you whether the amount at stake justifies the fee — or whether the objection is simply right on your own numbers. We would rather say “don’t spend money on this” than take a fee to confirm it. Engagements themselves deliver two documents through your counsel: the Objection Response Analysis report and full workpapers. Because response windows are short, we confirm the deadline from the objection’s notice at intake — and we will decline an engagement that arrives too close to it rather than rush an analysis the deadline could swallow.
What every engagement includes
- Reconciliation of the trustee’s schedule against your ledger, ordinary-course analysis under each accepted methodology with a sensitivity table, the subsequent-new-value ledger, and a documented net-exposure band.
- Three deliverables formatted for your counsel’s use: the Defense Analysis Report, a settlement memo, and full workpapers traceable to source records.
- Turnaround typically 48–72 hours from complete data.
- Written scope and fixed quote, usually the same business day you send your materials.
The economics, plainly
A preference demand is a specific number — often six or seven figures. The choices are to negotiate on the trustee’s numbers, pay hourly defense costs that commonly run well into five figures, sell the problem to a claims trader at a steep discount, or document your statutory defenses from your own records. A fixed fee of $2,500 to $5,000 is a small fraction of any demand in these tiers. What the analysis changes in any particular case depends on the facts; what it always changes is which numbers the conversation is about.
International engagements are prepaid in full.
Request a quote
Send the demand letter or complaint exhibit (or just your company name and the bankruptcy case) to matthew@truenorthanalytics.co, or call (513) 212-6596.
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