date:Mar 12, 2013
e fund that specializes in investing in distressed companies. The firm, which issued $75 million in financing to Hostess in January 2012, was formed in 2002 by former Goldman Sachs employees Edward A. Mule and Robert J. OShea. It would not be the first time that Silver Point has attempted to acquire a portion of Hostess. The firm in 2009 partnered with then-Hostess chief executive officer Craig Jung to try and buy the business the first time it filed for Chapter 11, but it was bested by private