Orchards need water, harvests have windows, and value burns off every month a workout drags. GBB Advisors runs Chapter 11 §363 sale processes, lender-directed dispositions, and live auctions for food and agriculture assets — to a court calendar, with the operation still running.
We are engaged by the parties who carry the risk when a food or ag operation goes sideways.
Ag banks, Farm Credit institutions, and specialty lenders seeking a defensible path to recovery on farm and processing collateral
Debtor and committee counsel who need an M&A advisor who can be retained under §327 and testify to the process
Operators who must keep farming through a case while a sale process runs on the court’s calendar
Fiduciaries responsible for marketing, auctioning, and liquidating agricultural and food processing assets
A Section 363 sale is a sale free and clear of liens, approved by the bankruptcy court. Timing is everything in agriculture — here is the arc of a process we run, calibrated to the growing season.
Ten-entity table grape and citrus operation in Delano — roughly 3,700 owned acres across 26 ranches plus 164,000 square feet of cold storage, against approximately $142.6M of secured debt.
Private-equity-backed almond platform across the Delta, Dixon and Southland regions — 8,680 acres offered, 38% carrying riparian water rights, against approximately $161M of secured debt under a credit-bid framework.
Most advisors rent auction software or run the sale off a spreadsheet. We built ours — so the bidding rules are enforced in code, and the record that comes out the other end is ready for the docket.
Operator console and big-screen viewer update together in real time, so the room, the lender, and counsel are all watching the same number.
Separate admin, operator and viewer passcodes per auction, with viewer data redacted server-side rather than merely hidden.
Ag-native lot cards carrying APNs, acreage, varieties and cultural-cost handling — bid either way, converted live.
Opening floors and minimum increments are enforced by the platform, not by an auctioneer’s judgment in the moment.
Per-bidder maximum-offer caps with live committed and remaining tracking across the whole portfolio.
Every bid time-stamped and exportable to CSV in one click — a complete record that drops straight into the sale motion.
Display above uses illustrative figures, not actual bids.
The earlier we see a situation, the more of the value we can preserve. Initial conversations with lenders, counsel and owners are confidential and without obligation.