
Crisis = 危 + 機
Danger Opportunity
Since 1985 Providing Crisis Management,
Private Equity & Investment Banking Services
Making a Difference
When your business is under pressure, you need experienced leadership—not theory. CA&A, led by Ron Clear, works directly with business owners to stabilize operations, protect value, and restore financial control during periods of distress. We specialize in hands-on restructuring solutions designed to help owners navigate cash flow constraints, lender pressure, operational breakdowns, and balance-sheet challenges. Our approach is decisive, discreet, and results-driven.
How We Help Business Owners
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Immediate cash flow stabilization and liquidity management
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Operational restructuring to restore profitability
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Debt restructuring and lender negotiations
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Corporate governance and management control support
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Strategic alternatives to preserve ownership value
We are proud of our 100% success rate in stabilizing financial and operational performance, helping owners regain control and position their businesses for long-term sustainability, or selling their company.
Built for Today’s Challenges
In an environment shaped by supply chain disruptions, inflation, labor shortages, and volatile regulatory and monetary policies, owners must act quickly and decisively. Delays cost value. CA&A provides the experience, leadership, and execution required to navigate uncertainty—while keeping owners informed, involved, and in control. If your business is facing financial or operational stress, early action preserves options.
If your business needs restructuring, turnaround, or crisis management support,
CA&A is your trusted partner in rebuilding strength and confidence. We deliver experienced restructuring leadership to protect value and stabilize performance—when it matters most.
Services
Business
Continuity
Enterprise
Risk Management
Private Equity &
Investment Banking Services
Industries &
Client Lists
Specialized
Advisory
Services
On Line Advisory
Services
Turnaround &
Restructuring
Debtor Advisory
Services
Performance
Integrity & Results
Philosophy
CA&A creates opportunities and provides multidisciplinary solutions to complex business challenges. We work with businesses with revenues of $20 million to over $3 billion across a broad range of industries.
From selling companies to turning them around, CA&A brings unparalleled expertise and innovative thinking. We are committed to addressing our clients’ critical needs and to increasing our clients’ enterprise value. We believe in being proactive and progressive in growing bottom line profit, while ensuring that our clients’ strengths are not compromised during a crisis. We have a 100% success rate over the last 40 years, having never fail to either turn our client around, or if so desired to sell them.
Risk and crisis management is the process of identifying, assessing, and controlling threats to an organization's capital and earnings. These risks or threats could stem from a wide variety of sources, including financial uncertainty, legal liabilities, strategic management errors, accidents, and natural disasters – including a shortage of good management.
We can provide private-equity capital into our clients companies when we have identified specific financial goals and investment strategies for profiting from these investments. Each category of investor provides working capital to restructuring of operations, management, and formal control and ownership of the company.
IT & Telecom
Tech, Software Development, AI
Entertainment & Communications
Aerospace & Defense
Financial & Professional Services
Food Services (Distribution & Manufacturing)
Waste Management
Healthcare & Hospitality
Governmental & Non-Profit
Manufacturing & Construction
CA&A offers a complete suite of services from working side-by-side with our clients, to acting as interim management when needed, to succession planning for those who wish to place someone else at the helm.
At the request of our clients, we are pleased to announce that we are now offering a limited number of business advisory services to clients via Google or Teams. These services are offered at a reduced hourly rate. All consultations conducted with only senior management or board members, ensuring expert guidance tailored to your needs. We will provide insightful strategies to address your business challenges. If interest please contact so that we might set up a consultation to assess your situation.
Our Turnaround & Restructuring team helps companies not just survive, but those thriving. Indeed, a host of unexpected issues can impact performance and need to be actively addressed. Cost pressures, rising competition, changing demand and in the political environment, rapid growth and rapid decline, and a changing global economy now caused by a global inflationary pressure or a change in structure.
Across industries and across the country, CA&A delivers hands-on financial, operational, and strategic action that rapidly produces results. We deliver results no matter what the situation, keeping in mind your financial goals and your drive to uphold responsibilities to customers, employees, suppliers, and lenders. We consider all the issues surrounding your business, and we work to restore profitability through strategies such as reducing costs, resolving production problems, restructuring the balance sheet, and reestablishing credibility with lenders and other creditors. Our mandate is simple and direct: improve results and restore value to your business and its stakeholders.
CA&A reputation among lenders, legal counsel and creditors for integrity, objectivity and candor adds credibility to the financial restructuring efforts of the clients we represent.
For over forty years, CA&A has provided advisory services to businesses dealing with under-performance, over-leverage, cash flow issues and other distress situations. Our customized solutions improve results by identifying issues and developing and implementing action plans to avoid crisis situations.
CA&A has managed hundreds of engagements and returned firms to profitability in a wide range of industries and has never fail to turn its clients around or achieve it desired outcome.
We are not like the others in our industry who come in, spend a lot of your money writing you reports, and then walk away after submitting their bill. CA&A will put its reputation up again the world’s top consulting firms when it comes to performance, integrity, and results. We stay until the job is done.
We never see the glass as half empty or half full, we want to sell the water and grind the glass into a diamond. We believe everything has value to us.
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About Our Founder
Since our inception, CA&A has been totally focused on building a responsive, reliable and resourceful crisis & investment management practice.
From CA&A’s beginnings in 1985, (40 years ago) we made a conscious decision to remain a boutique practice. We understand that our clients want hands-on support from experts they can trust and who have a proven track record. We have proven over the years that CA&A’s can do the work it typically takes a larger group to do but at half the price and have the time.
Ron Clear brings over 50 years of extensive experience in transforming companies, structuring deals, conducting due diligence, and fostering relationships within both private and public equity sectors. His impressive career includes pivotal roles such as COO of Apple's largest retail dealership, CFO at Ducommun Metals, and President of Diamond.
Additionally, Mr. Clear's expertise is recognized through his tenure at investment banking firms Robertson Stephens, as well as his role as a former US Trustee Panel Member for California’s Central District.
A cum laude graduate in Social Science from the University of California Irvine, and a master’s degree from the University of Southern California, earning academic honors.

Contact US
56 Tesla, Irvine, California 92618
Email: rclear@clear-alexander.com
Email: rclear@caa1985.com
Telephone: 949-644-4300

56 Tesla, Irvine, CA 92618 -949-644-4300
