Never has corporate turnaround expert Jeff Huddleston been more needed or more dreaded. Huddleston says he’s gotten used to being “the most hated guy” in the room over the past year as oil industry job losses topped 250,000 and companies sought ways to curb spending. Turnaround specialists like him are about to get even busier in 2016, advising companies how to keep the lights on through the ugliest oil-market downturn in decades. “We’re like living symbols that something has gone really wrong,” said Huddleston, a managing director at restructuring consultants Conway MacKenzie Inc. in Houston. The energy industry had 26 bankruptcies last year, a larger number than in the five previous years combined and more than any other sector of the U.S. economy, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. With no market rebound on the horizon, many more producers are running out of options. A restructuring adviser’s tool box […]