It was the most brutal corporate restructuring in Wall Street history. The 2015 bankruptcy brawl for the storied casino giant, Caesars Entertainment, pitted brilliant and ruthless private equity legends against the world's most relentless hedge fund wizards.

In the tradition of Barbarians at the Gate and The Big Short comes the riveting, multi-dimensional poker game between private equity firms and distressed debt hedge funds that played out from the Vegas Strip to Manhattan boardrooms to Chicago courthouses and even, for a moment, the halls of the United States Congress. On one side: relentless financial engineers Marc Rowan, David Sambur, and David Bonderman with their teams at Apollo Global Management and TPG Capital. On the other: superstar distressed debt investors Dave Miller and Ryan Mollett with their cohorts at the likes of Elliott Management, Oaktree Capital, and Appaloosa Management.

The Caesars bankruptcy put a twist on the old-fashioned casino heist. Through a $27 billion leveraged buyout and a dizzying string of financial engineering transactions, Apollo and TPG-in the midst of the post-Great Recession slump-had seemingly snatched every prime asset of the company from creditors, with the notable exception of Caesars Palace. But Caesars' hedge fund lenders and bondholders had scooped up the company's paper for nickels and dimes. And with their own armies of lawyers and bankers, they were ready to do everything necessary to take back what they believed was theirs-if they could just stop their own infighting.

These modern financiers now dominate the scene in Corporate America as their fight-to-the-death mentality continues to shock workers, politicians, and broader society-and even each other.

In The Caesars Palace Coup, financial journalists Max Frumes and Sujeet Indap illuminate the brutal tactics of distressed debt mavens-vultures, as they are condemned-in the sale and purchase of even the biggest companies in the world with billions of dollars hanging in the balance.

. Enormous Potential Audience: Readership of this high-stakes story will range from finance professionals working in hedge funds and private equity, and as portfolio managers, consultants, CEOs; to law firms and professors, business and economics students; to true crime devotees and fans of The Big Short, Too Big to Fail, and even Bringing Down the House.

. Buzzworthy, Perennial Subject: 2018 was the "year of the scammer," and more public criticism of billionaires was lodged in 2019 and 2020 than ever before. There is an audience hungry for this salaciously elaborate story of corruption, greed, and corporate malfeasance.

. Colorful Cast: Caesars Palace Coup features a larger-than-life cast of characters, including: Mark Rowan, private equity firm Apollo's wonderboy; Gary Loveman, Caesar's resident Harvard-and-MIT-groomed genius; and Judge Benjamin Goldgar, the outspoken bankruptcy arbiter who toppled Caesar's house of cards.

. Dedicated Promotion: Leading up to publication, the authors will place articles in the Financial Times, Reuters, and Forbes; and promote on LinkedIn and to their combined 5.6K Twitter followers.

. Significant Author Platform: Author Max Frumes is the founding editor of Reorg Research, industry-leading provider of real-time finance news, which will promote Caesars Palace Coup to its 100K+ unique readers.

. Industry Panels and Appearances: The authors are lining up appearances at industry events held by the Turnaround Management Association, the American Bankruptcy Institute, the American Bar Association, and at top business schools like Harvard, Wharton, and Columbia.

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