Rachel Albanese is a Restructuring partner in the New York Office. Rachel is experienced in representing secured and unsecured creditors, debtors, equity holders, purchasers of distressed assets, and other parties in interest in a wide range of restructuring matters, including cases under chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code, out-of-court workouts and cross-border insolvency proceedings.

Rachel is a contributing author of the Bloomberg Law: Bankruptcy Treatise. She is also a co-chair of the National Association of Women Lawyers’ (NAWL) Practice Area Affinity Group, Women in Bankruptcy & Restructuring, and a member of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation and the American Bankruptcy Institute. After law school, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of Penn Law’s Journal of International Economic Law, Rachel clerked for Hon. John W. Bissell, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Charles Asfour is a partner of Victory Park Capital, an alternative asset management firm based in Chicago, Illinois. He leads the firm’s Special Opportunities investment strategy and is responsible for the idea generation, origination, structuring, execution and management of special situation oriented debt and/or equity investments that offer structural downside protection as well as the opportunity to generate substantial upside potential. He is also responsible for the execution of operational turnarounds, value creation initiatives and other strategic alternatives for several of Victory Park’s portfolio companies. Mr. Asfour is also a member of the firm’s Investment Committee.

Previously, he was a founder of Blackbird Management Group, an operationally oriented private investment firm where he focused on investing in undermanaged and/or operationally challenged lower middle market companies. Prior to founding Blackbird, Mr. Asfour worked at Code Hennessy & Simmons, a middle market private equity firm where he focused on investing primarily in the business and consumer services sector. Mr. Asfour also worked in the Global Mergers & Acquisitions Investment Banking Group at J.P. Morgan in New York where served on the M&A Engagements Committee as well as the firm’s dedicated Corporate Defense Team.

Mr. Asfour currently serves on the Board of Directors of VPC portfolio companies, American Plastics, Cardinal Metal Finishing, Hispanic Food Holdings and United Automobile Holdings, LLC. Mr. Asfour received a Bachelor of Science degree in finance and accounting from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.

Mr. Augustine joined Greenhill in 2018 as a Vice Chairman and Co-Head of Financing Advisory & Restructuring for North America. Prior to joining Greenhill, Neil spent 17 years at Rothschild where he most recently served as Executive Vice Chairman and Co-Head of North American Debt Advisory and Restructuring. Neil was one of the founding members of The Blackstone Group’s Restructuring and Reorganization Financial Advisory Department. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree and an MBA from the University of Rochester.

Victor is an experienced restructuring professional with 10 years’ experience providing financial and operational restructuring, transaction advisory and company financial advisory. As a key member of the LM+Co healthcare team, Victor is currently serving as interim VP of Finance for ProCure NJ, a privately held radiation oncology provider. Victor is also helping lead a complex transaction involving a municipal bond refinancing for the Center.

Some of his other engagements with LM+Co have included: California Proton Treatment Center, TransUnion and NECO. Victor previously worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Asset + Investment Management and Transaction Services practice. Victor has a Bachelor of Science degree from the Rutgers Business School and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), licensed in the State of New York.

Charles H. Klippel, Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel Health, joined Aetna’s Law Department in 1981. After a brief assignment as an investment attorney, he became the department’s first full-time health lawyer. In that capacity, he supported Aetna’s entry into the HMO market in 1982, the formation of the company’s first PPOs a few years later and the development in 1986 of PARTNERS National Health Plans, the company’s joint venture with Voluntary Hospitals of America.

In 1988, Mr. Klippel joined the international law group within the Law Department, supporting the company’s life insurance operations in Europe, Canada and Australia, as well as its entry into Taiwan, Malaysia, Hong Kong and other Asia markets. During this period, he also served as Chief Counsel for Aetna’s global investment management network based in London and Hong Kong. Mr. Klippel returned to health law in 1992, supporting various business activities including network contracting, specialty products, new product development, and mergers and acquisitions. He served as lead counsel to Aetna’s physician practice management business, as well as its early e-health initiatives.

Following the acquisition of U.S. Healthcare in 1996, Mr. Klippel was appointed General Counsel of Aetna’s International Division, where he also served as Chief Compliance Officer. In that capacity, he supported the development and operation of the company’s life, health, pension and investment activities around the world. He served as a director of a number of the company’s international businesses, and was the Chairman and Executive Manager of Aetna’s health operations in New Zealand. In 2000, Mr. Klippel assumed his current role managing legal support for the company’s health operations. Mr. Klippel is Adjunct Professor of Health Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law. He is a member of the Leadership Council of the Harvard School of Public Health and President of the Harvard-Radcliffe Club of Northern Connecticut.

Ms. Manewitz, Principal and Executive Director of Manewitz Weiker Associates, LLC, (“MWA”), specializes in the management of challenged investments. She serves on boards, post chapter liquidation trusts and official bankruptcy committees.

Among her significant achievements was leading a successful proxy contest to unseat and replace the poorly performing board and management team of a public company. The Wall Street Journal recognized this action as a “big victory for institutional investors”.

Prior to forming MWA, Sharon worked for Bankers Trust Company and TIAA-CREF.

In 2017 the New York Institute of Credit Women’s Division named Sharon Executive of the Year.

Mr. NeJame is a senior investment banking executive, with over two decades of experience, having advised leveraged and distressed corporate clients, as well as institutional and other investing clients in a broad range of transactions, including capital raising, M&A, exchange offers and Chapter 11 reorganizations. Since 2012, Mr. NeJame has been the Group Head for Restructuring & Special Situations Advisory at Oppenheimer & Co. Prior thereto, Mr. NeJame worked at Alex. Brown & Sons, before establishing the Restructuring Advisory Group at Lazard Frères & Co., as a founding member. After almost a decade at Lazard, Mr. NeJame helped found the New York office of Imperial Capital as a Managing Director and member of their Restructuring & Leveraged Finance Groups. He later became the Co-head of the Restructuring & Recapitalization Advisory Group at Gleacher & Company before joining Oppenheimer. Mr. NeJame began his investment banking career in the Corporate Finance Division of Kidder Peabody & Co.

Mr. NeJame also worked as a derivatives market consultant at the Swiss Options and Financial Futures Exchange (SOFFEX, nka Eurex) while working for Accenture in Zürich, Switzerland. He received his BSE in Electrical Engineering, cum laude, from Duke University and his MBA in Finance from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. Mr. NeJame is registered with FINRA as a General Securities Principal (Series 7, 24 and 63).

Bill Nelson has more than 20 years of experience helping clients successfully close complex mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, financings and other securities transactions across a wide range of industries.

Bill co-chairs the firm’s Capital Markets and Securities Practice Group, and he routinely leads teams of lawyers who work collaboratively, across offices and practice groups, to efficiently structure transactions in a manner that maximizes his clients’ strategic interests.

He has earned substantial recognition for his work on many innovative transactions. The Global M&A Network named him the 2017 Americas Middle Market Deal Lawyer of the Year and also awarded him two Atlas Awards in 2017 for leading teams that worked on transactions that were named the “Oil & Gas Industry Deal of the Year” and the “USA M&A Deal of the Year” ($250 to $500 million category). In addition, Bill led the team that worked on a unique transaction named the 2016 “Out-of-Court Restructuring Deal of the Year” by The M&A Advisor.

Bill handles public offerings; private placements; monetization transactions; cross-border securities offerings, including those involving Multijurisdictional Disclosure Systems (MJDS); proxy contests; securities law compliance and corporate governance.

Bill’s clients include private equity firms and their portfolio companies, United States, Canadian and other foreign oil and gas exploration and production companies, master limited partnerships (MLPs), oilfield services companies, insurance companies, restaurants/hospitality companies and investment banking firms. He recently successfully handled complex, high-profile transactions for KMG Chemicals, Inc., Endeavor Energy Resources, L.P., Alta Mesa Holdings, LP, and Callon Petroleum Company, among other companies.

Raj Sahni is a partner in the Bankruptcy and Restructuring Practice Group and the chair of the firm’s India Committee of the Canadian law firm, Bennett Jones LLP. His 18+ years of experience includes complex Canadian, cross-border and international and bankruptcy and insolvency cases, formal and informal debt workouts and restructurings, claims and dispute resolution, receiverships, Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act restructurings and Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act proposals.

Raj’s experience includes having acted for debtors, creditors, creditor committees, court officers (including trustees, monitors and receivers) and financiers in insolvency proceedings and distress situations. He is also experienced in insolvency based claims and dispute resolution, having acted for litigants as well as court officers in insolvency proceedings and has designed and been involved in claims resolution procedures in large insolvency cases. Raj is recognized by leading rating publications, including “Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business”, IFLR and LEXPERT for his expertise and experience in restructuring and insolvency.

As chair of the firm’s India Committee, Raj also assists the firm’s Canadian clients in seeking out and realizing upon opportunities in the fast growing Indian market and assists Indian and multinational companies with investments and acquisitions in Canada, with a particular focus on insolvency situations and distressed assets and companies. Raj is also regularly sought out for his expertise in this area and has contributed numerous articles to the India Business Law Journal on India-Canada trade and investment issues.

Michael J. Small is a partner and litigation attorney with Foley & Lardner LLP. Mr. Small focuses his practice on bankruptcy, creditors’ rights and commercial litigation. He has represented financial institutions, creditors’ committees, trustees, secured and unsecured creditors, asset purchasers and debtors in reorganization cases, liquidations, workouts, transactions, and a variety of federal and state court litigation. Mr. Small is a member of and has led the firm’s Bankruptcy & Business Reorganizations Practice. He also practices with the firm’s Food & Beverage and Sports Industry Teams.

Mr. Small is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School (J.D., 1991), received a master’s degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (M.A., 1988), and earned his bachelor’s degree from Brown University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1985).

Mr. Small is admitted to practice in Illinois, before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth, Seventh and Ninth Circuits, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, where he is a member of the Trial Bar, and the United States Supreme Court. He has also appeared in federal and state courts in Delaware, Wisconsin, California, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Indiana, Missouri, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, Colorado, Texas, and Massachusetts.

With over 20 years of investment banking experience, Evan Tomaskovic is an entrenched player in the fields of restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, and financings, bringing a unique blend of expertise to Carl Marks Advisors’ client base. Mr. Tomaskovic has advised both public and privately held companies across a wide range of constituents, including management teams, boards of directors, equity investors, and various creditor groups.

Mr. Tomaskovic is currently managing partner of the investment banking group at Carl Marks Advisors and serves as CEO of Carl Marks Securities LLC, the firm’s broker-dealer operations.

His experience has involved a variety of industries, including financial services, real estate, and transportation. Recent notable engagements include Joe’s Jeans, Breitburn Energy, American Bancorp, Saint Vincent’s Medical Centers, and MacGregor Golf. In addition, he has executed multiple cross-border M&A engagements, including Logic Controls and Gould Paper.

Mr. Tomaskovic was cited by Turnaround & Workouts as one of the “Top Ten People to Watch” and was recognized as among the top 100 restructuring investment bankers by the Global M&A Network on multiple occasions, most recently in 2017. Prior to joining Carl Marks Advisors, Mr. Tomaskovic was a senior vice president at RBS Greenwich Capital, where he focused on corporate finance and advisory solutions. Previously, he worked in the financial institutions group at Lehman Brothers, most recently serving as vice president, focusing on M&A. Mr. Tomaskovic began his career at Meyercord Advisors Inc., a boutique turnaround advisory firm, where he assisted in the restructuring, purchase and sale of several businesses.

Mr. Tomaskovic earned a BS in Finance from Rutgers University and an MBA in Finance from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business, where he graduated with honors. He is registered with FINRA as a General Securities Principal holding Series 7 and Series 63 certifications.