Corporate Debt Advisors review.
MCA and merchant debt negotiation
Nine years on merchant debt and a fresh BBB A+, with a review footprint that lives on exactly one platform.
Our verdict
Corporate Debt Advisors has negotiated merchant debt since 2017, which puts it ahead of most of the firms in the bottom half of this list on the one factor that matters most. The specialty is real, the Google rating is strong, and the BBB accreditation is clean.
The qualifiers are about depth rather than character. Accreditation dates only to October 2025, so the A+ is describing a short window, not a decade. Eighty-six reviews on a single platform is a thin evidentiary base next to firms carrying several hundred across two or three. Two funder lawsuits from 2018 sit on the public record. And the fee is not published, which in this category we treat as a deduction rather than a neutral fact.
The bigger structural gap is legal. We found no attorney model, in-house or networked, and our rubric caps legal capability at 6.0 when there isn’t one. Against a funder holding a confession of judgment, that ceiling is the whole ballgame.
What we like
- Genuine MCA and merchant-debt specialty since 2017
- BBB A+ and accredited
- 4.7 Google average across 86 reviews
What gave us pause
- No attorney model we could verify, which caps legal capability at 6.0
- Fee structure not published
- Accreditation only since October 2025
- Reviews concentrated on a single platform
- Two 2018 funder lawsuits on the record
Who it’s for
- Straightforward MCA negotiation with no litigation in sight
- Owners who want an established specialist over a two-year-old brand
Who should look elsewhere
- Confessions of judgment, entered judgments, or active suits
- Anyone who needs the fee published before calling
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In their own words
What customers wrote about Corporate Debt Advisors
This average rests on 1 review. That is not a sample, it is an anecdote, and it should not be read as a rating.
What satisfied customers wrote
“[name withheld] reached out to me regarding my needs. He explained how to meet the needs of my business and support for financial independence in one year to resolve daily payments that are practically impossible and were suffocating my business. I highly recommend [name withheld] and Corporate advisors”
★★★★★ ED L · 03/13/2026 · BBB
What complaints and critics wrote
No negative reviews or complaints appear on the sources we could reach. On a thin profile that may say more about volume than about service.
Quotes are reproduced exactly as written, including original spelling and punctuation, and are trimmed only with an ellipsis where marked. Where the BBB has redacted an employee’s name we show [name withheld]. Reviewers are identified only by the display name their platform shows. We pick quotes to represent the range on each profile, not to make a case, and we publish the overall rating and review count beside them so you can judge how typical any one of them is. Retrieved August 24, 2026.
The court record
Lawsuits involving Corporate Debt Advisors
3 matters on file, grouped by who did the suing, because those are not the same fact. We confirmed every one against a court record. 2 of them do not name this company as a party, and say so where they appear.
Lawsuits involving Corporate Debt Advisors (2)
Each entry is tagged by who brought it. A funder suing a settlement firm and a client suing one are close to opposite facts, so read the tag before the caption.
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Funder sued High Speed Capital LLC v. Corporate Debt Advisors, LLC, Tablada Investments Group LLC, Tablada, Inc., and Edmundo Tablada Remanded
DispositionRemoved to federal court and then REMANDED back to Erie County Supreme Court. The federal decision is reported at 339 F. Supp. 3d 137. Final state-court disposition not verified.
Who this is againstCorporate Debt Advisors appeared as a RESPONDENT holding funds belonging to judgment debtors, not as a defendant accused of wrongdoing in a plenary lawsuit. A turnover proceeding asks a third party to hand over money it is holding; it is not a claim against that party's own conduct.
High Speed Capital, an MCA funder, commenced a post-judgment turnover proceeding in New York state court seeking funds it asserted Corporate Debt Advisors held that were owed on a judgment against the Tablada defendants; the proceeding was removed to federal court, where the docket records a cause of 28:1332 diversity-fraud, and the district court issued a published decision returning the matter to state court. This is ONE dispute, not two: High Speed Capital filed in Erie County, the case was removed to the Western District of New York, and it was remanded back to Erie County. It is listed once here for that reason. Filed in Erie County as Index 810673/2018, removed to the Western District of New York, and remanded back to Erie County by Decision and Order of October 23, 2018.
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Funder sued Itria Ventures LLC v. Corporate Debt Advisors, LLC, a Florida limited liability company f/k/a Sharpe Processing & Consulting LLC, Tony Shea, Michele Sharpe and Todd Moore Status not verified
A merchant cash advance funder alleged three counts against the company and three individuals: tortious interference with a contractual relationship, tortious interference with a business relationship, and a claim for injunctive relief, based on allegations that the defendants solicited the funder's merchant customer and advised that customer to stop paying the funder and to move bank accounts out of New York to Florida; the amended complaint was e-filed 03/24/2018 (Filing # 69761083) and the defendant's response to a request for production was e-filed 06/29/2018 (Filing # 74303853). No disposition was obtained because the Miami-Dade docket itself could not be reached.
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Claims we could not verify, and therefore do not state as fact: “Itria Ventures LLC v. Corporate Debt Advisors, Miami-Dade County Clerk” (https://www.beaconclient.com/lawsuitsentities and https://debanked.com/2018/08/details-emerge-in-florida-lawsuit-against-corporate-debt-advisors/); “Corporate Debt Advisors 'is advising merchants to commit fraud by moving money owed to Itria to a new secret hidden bank account'” (https://debanked.com/2018/08/details-emerge-in-florida-lawsuit-against-corporate-debt-advisors/); “Anthony Shea and John Philbin are barred from providing debt settlement services to Florida consumers” (https://debanked.com/2018/08/details-emerge-in-florida-lawsuit-against-corporate-debt-advisors/); “Florida Attorney General Assurances of Voluntary Compliance bearing on two people deBanked identifies as Corporate Debt Advisors principals: (a) GHS Solutions, LLC / GHS Debt Solutions / Anthony K. Shea, Agency File No. L10-3-1179, and (b) Debt Remedy Solutions LLC / Marcus H. Obser / John T. Philbin, Agency File No. L10-3-1216” (https://debanked.com/pdfs/AnthonyShea.pdf and https://debanked.com/pdfs/JohnPhilbin.pdf, linked from https://debanked.com/2018/08/details-emerge-in-florida-lawsuit-against-corporate-debt-advisors/); “Itria Ventures LLC v. Corporate Debt Advisors — Miami-Dade County Clerk” (beacon-leads.md); “The disposition of Erie County Index No. 810673/2018 after remand (2018-11-26 onward)” (n/a). Each appears online with no court, caption, or docket behind it. We list them so you know we looked.
Part of this list was compiled by Beacon Client Solutions, which is itself a debt-resolution firm and a competitor of most companies it names. We reproduce its entries because the captions are real and checkable, we verified what we could, and we label the rest rather than dropping them. Read the selection with its source in mind, ours included.
Court records are public and they change. A filed complaint contains allegations, not findings, and a case appearing here is not a conclusion that the company did anything wrong. Where a case ended, we say how it ended. Where we could not confirm a docket, we say that too. One limit worth knowing: free docket sources show only what someone has already paid to fetch, so a case we describe as open may have been resolved since the date shown against it. Treat every date here as the last time the record was refreshed, not as today. Last verified August 24, 2026.