Randall Reese is the president and founder of chapter11dockets.com, an efficient and effective docket research tool with access to a database of more than 3.5 million pleadings from over 2,300 of the largest chapter 11 cases. In today's episode, Randall joins me to discuss his report titled, "The Year in Bankruptcy Claims Trading: 2015," which has since been updated to include Q1-Q3 of 2016.

The report can be obtained at bit.ly/claims16

In this episode we discuss:

• Claims trading trends - Lehman vs. non-Lehman
• Pros and cons of current claims trading environment
• Retail claims trading
• Increasing sophistication of claims traders
• The oddity of two Ponzi scheme cases being among the most active for claims trading over the past two years

To follow Randall's insightful, long-form analysis in Turnarounds & Workouts: News For People Tracking Distressed Businesses, visit bankrupt.com/freetrial.

You can also follow Randall on Twitter @chapter11cases

Tags: Bankruptcy, Claims Trading, Investing, Lehman Brothers, Restructuring