The Joris Luyendijk Banking Blog  Restructurer: 'I have had
stones thrown at me'  Joris meets a restructurer who sees his
job as repairing companies that saddled themselves with debt in
good times   We are meeting one winter morning in a juice bar
near Bank, in the heart of the old City. He is an affable man in
his mid-20s, English and well dressed. He is tired from a trip
early that morning. Later that day he will have to travel again.
"In an ideal world my job shouldn't exist. I have had stones
thrown at me on industrial estates. Yet other customers will
take you to the racing. Restructuring is such a diverse place to
be.  "It's almost like people in companies go through the five
stages of grief when we come in. First denial over how bad it
is, then they think they can bargain and make it go away, when
that doesn't work they enter the anger phase, followed finally
by acceptance. That last step may take hours, or months.
"Basically we come in and repair companies that saddled
themselves with debt in good t