Enrique is a Vice President in the Capital Structure Advisory team at Raymond James where he serves as a financial adviser to companies, creditors and other stakeholders on chapter 11 restructurings, distressed M&A transactions, challenging debt and equity financings, recapitalizations, liability management strategies, and credit agreement amendments across a range of industries.

Prior to Raymond James, Enrique was a Director at M3 Partners working on numerous restructurings, specializing in formulating business plans to improve financial performance, evaluating capital structures, conducting asset sales, analyzing capital allocation decisions, developing turnaround strategies, and preparing forecast models and budgets.

Enrique began his career in investment banking in the Technology, Media, & Telecommunications Group at J.P. Morgan where he advised companies and financial sponsors through M&A, capital raising, and other corporate finance initiatives.

Enrique earned an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BBA from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

George P. Angelich is a partner in the Bankruptcy & Financial Restructuring practice at ArentFox Schiff LLP in New York, NY. He represents debtors, committees of unsecured creditors, secured creditors, and lenders in bankruptcy reorganization and liquidation proceedings. George led the team that advised subchapter V debtors CoverFX, Desigual and G-Star. In addition, George represented, Diesel, and successfully confirmed a fully consensual Chapter 11 plan of reorganization in just 38 days, for which the team was recognized with the M&A Advisor’s 2019 “Restructuring Deal of the Year” award. George has represented other clients and constituencies in retail bankruptcies such as Fortunoff’s and Rock & Republic Enterprises Inc. He has represented retailers in out-of-court restructurings including, for example, a women’s luxury brand swimwear company and a cosmetics company.

Jordan Bryk is a Managing Director at Marathon Asset Management helping to lead the firm’s Capital Solutions platform. Mr. Bryk focuses on originating, structuring and underwriting bespoke private credit transactions and special situations investment opportunities. Mr. Bryk joined Marathon from Centerview Partners where he was a Principal in the Debt Advisory & Restructuring group. Prior to Centerview, Mr. Bryk was a restructuring attorney at Weil Gotshal. At both Centerview and Weil Gotshal, Mr. Bryk represented debtors, creditors and sponsors in all aspects of recapitalization transactions. Mr. Bryk received a JD/MBA from Columbia Law School and Columbia Business School in 2011 and a B.A. degree from Columbia College (cum laude) in 2007.

Matthew Diaz specializes in providing restructuring services to creditors in Chapter 11 and out-of-court special situations. Mr. Diaz has advised over 50 official unsecured creditor committees and has significant mass tort restructuring expertise, including representing creditors in the Purdue Pharma, Mallinckrodt, Aldrich (Trane), DBMP (CertainTeed), Bestwall (Georgia Pacific), LTL Management (J&J), Paddock (Owens Illinois), Blitz USA, and Specialty Products (RPM International) bankruptcies.

Mr. Diaz’s responsibilities have included the (i) preparation and critical evaluation of plans of reorganization, financial projections, models and liquidation analyses; (ii) investigation of prepetition actions, identification and prosecution of possible causes of action and related testimony; (iii) the assessment of asset sale proposals, key employee retention plans, financing facilities, disclosure statements, and critical vendor programs; and (iv) the analysis of creditor recoveries under various restructuring and financial scenarios.

Mr. Diaz is a certified public accountant, certified restructuring advisor, certified turnaround professional and has an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Naomi is a Director of RBC Capital Markets, LLC, specializing in healthcare and not-for-profit lending for over 15 years. Her industry background includes senior living, charter schools, universities, student housing, hospitals, museums, theatres, and other charitable organizations. Naomi has sourced and negotiated approximately $400 million in property and note sales, within the same healthcare and not-for-profit sector concentration.

Prior to joining RBCCM in July 2018, Naomi managed multiple Asset Recovery divisions at Santander Bank, N.A. as a Senior Vice President / Team Leader, supervising more than $4.0 billion in assets. She has been involved in over 200 financings across the country, encompassing the full credit life cycle from underwriting seed capital / new construction through debt restructure or property disposition.

Before her 11 years at Santander, Naomi spent 5 years at LaSalle Bank as a commercial banker. Naomi holds a B.A. degree from Bradley University. She is currently registered with FINRA with Series 52, 63, and 79 securities licenses.

Jim Doak is a Co-Head of Miller Buckfire. James’s experience includes M&A, financing, and restructuring transactions on behalf of Gymboree, Aéropostale, the City of Detroit, the Mashantucket (Western) Pequot Tribal Nation, Broder Bros. Co., Magna Entertainment Corp., Standard Pacific Corp., Allied Holdings, Hines Horticulture, ITC^DeltaCom, Level 3 Communications, Kanebo Ltd., Burlington Industries, Horizon Natural Resources, CenterPoint Energy, and Gilat Satellite Networks. James has also represented creditor constituents in various restructuring transactions including The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc., COFINA/Puerto Rico, Idearc, Wilton Brands Inc., and The Lenox Group and advised several non-disclosed sovereigns and municipalities.

As Managing Partner of Prophet Equity, Mr. Gatlin is focused on identifying, making, managing and realizing a portfolio of investments in strategically viable, asset intensive, middle market companies where there are significant value creation opportunities and maintaining key financial and banking relationships in order to maximize portfolio companies’ financial returns. He is also focused on driving increases in equity value by optimizing portfolio and business unit strategy while being responsible for day-to-day operations of the partnership and relations with the limited partners. He is a member of the Office of Change Management of each investment.

Mr. Gatlin has 20 years of private equity investment experience having been a founding partner and principal of three successful private equity firms and funds focused in this specific investment segment. He has experience across every element of the private equity value chain having led the sourcing, structuring, closing, managing and realization of top tier returns for investment partners. His track record over the last twenty years includes over $650 million dollars of control private equity investments spanning approximately 75 corporate entities with over $6.0 billion in combined revenue. These investments have generated value of ~$2.45B for investors thus far, the vast majority of which has been fully realized. The Internal Rate of Return for these investments defines the very top of the private equity industry standard.

Ian Glastein is a Managing Principal at Monarch Alternative Capital, an investment firm with over $9 billion of assets under management. Mr. Glastein focuses on investments in opportunistic and distressed situations across corporate debt, real estate, special situations, and other market segments. Prior to joining Monarch in 2011, Mr. Glastein worked at Goldman Sachs as an Investment Banking Analyst in the Healthcare Group before completing a two-year fellowship at The Rabinowitz Institute in Israel. Mr. Glastein currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Shopko Optical, as well as on the boards of various entities related to investments in U.S. real estate. In addition to his professional affiliations, Mr. Glastein also serves on the board of the Meor Foundation, as well as on the boards of several local community organizations in New York. Mr. Glastein graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, magna cum laude, with a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School and a B.A. in Biology from the College of Arts and Sciences. He also earned a Master of Biotechnology from the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Greg Gordon represents clients in complex, high-profile chapter 11 cases and corporate restructurings. His experience includes out-of-court restructurings, prepackaged bankruptcies, distressed M&A transactions, and cross-border insolvencies. In recent years, Greg has assisted clients in achieving permanent resolutions of mass tort liabilities, including asbestos and talc liabilities.

Greg represented RadioShack in its successful chapter 11 reorganization, including in connection with a going concern sale of a substantial portion of RadioShack’s business following a contentious auction and sale hearing, and Bondex and Specialty Products in their successful section 524(g) chapter 11 reorganization that resolved their asbestos liabilities. Greg also represented the owners of the Vogtle nuclear plant in Westinghouse’s chapter 11 case, which resulted in a full recovery on their approximate $3.7 billion dollar claim. He is currently representing LTL Management, an affiliate of Johnson & Johnson, in a chapter 11 case it filed to resolve its talc liability, and is representing Bestwall, an affiliate of Georgia-Pacific, and DBMP, an affiliate of CertainTeed, in chapter 11 cases they filed to resolve their asbestos liabilities. Greg is also representing Hanson Permanente Cement and Kaiser Gypsum in chapter 11 cases they filed to resolve asbestos and environmental liabilities. Other significant engagements include the successful chapter 11 reorganizations of Swift Energy, achieved in less than four months through a prepackaged plan of reorganization, and Kaiser Aluminum, which included successful restructurings of pension, retiree medical, environmental, and asbestos liabilities.

Greg is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy.

As Co-President of A&G Real Estate Partners, Andy Graiser brings nearly 30 years of experience as a go-to resource for a variety of real estate services on behalf of healthy and distressed entities. His key areas of expertise include lease mitigation, real estate dispositions, facilitating growth opportunities, valuations, and acquisitions.

He co-founded A&G in 2012 with Co-President Emilio Amendola. Previously, in 1992, they founded and then later sold DJM Realty.

Mr. Graiser and his team have achieved rent-reduction and occupancy-cost savings approaching $8 billion on behalf of 650+ clients in every real estate sector, while selling more than $12 billion of non-core properties and leases. The clients he is most closely associated with include Mattress Firm, Claire’s, RadioShack, rue21, Dowling College, A&P Supermarkets, Party City, Christmas Tree Shops, Tailored Brands, Chico’s, Ruth’s Chris, GNC, and Tuesday Morning.

Shari L. Heyen is Co-Chair of the firm’s Global Restructuring & Bankruptcy Practice and Co-Managing Shareholder of the Houston office. Shari has experience in complex restructuring, bankruptcy, insolvency and complex commercial litigation matters. She has represented numerous creditors’ committees, debtors, bank groups, acquirers and other significant constituencies in national Chapter 11 cases and workout proceedings, including complex oil, gas and energy cases. Shari has broad experience in the prosecution and defense of fiduciary litigation, real estate, oil and gas, health care, receiverships and alternative energy matters.

Depending upon the needs of each client, Mark Joachim is as comfortable in the restructuring and distressed debt arena as he is in the context of a “new money” corporate finance transaction. Mark has more than 25 years of experience representing clients on complex financing arrangements. In the restructuring arena, he regularly represents distressed businesses, boards of directors, special committees, independent directors, debtor-in-possession lenders, distressed debt investors, official committees, ad hoc groups of creditors in connection with bankruptcy proceedings and out-of-court restructurings.

Mark’s background includes representing first and second lien senior lenders, mezzanine investors, and equity sponsors and borrowers in senior debt, mezzanine and private equity financing arrangements. He has successfully closed dozens of leveraged finance transactions for lenders utilizing cash flow, asset-based, and hybrid structures.

Mark’s areas of focus include:
• Acquisition, recapitalization and other leveraged financings
• Rescue financings
• Cash flow and asset-based financings
• Debtor-in-possession and exit financings
• Cross-border financings
• Multi-tranche, uni-tranche and mezzanine financings
• Restructurings, workouts and bankruptcies

Vlad Kasparov is a Managing Director at Portage Point Partners, specializing in managing complex financial and operational restructuring. Over the last 20 years, Vlad assisted clients in navigating periods of downturn, as well as providing interim management and Board of Directors services and stepping into officer/director roles. He has advised leading financial institutions, including mezzanine lenders, hedge funds and private equity funds, during corporate restructurings and operational turnarounds, specifically involving companies that were experiencing various forms of distress.

In his vast interim-management experience, Vlad has developed a reputation of guiding his clients through transition periods and providing them with comprehensive, value-added strategies designed to ensure long-term growth and prosperity.

In recent years, Vlad assisted several companies in the pharmaceutical space to achieve their desired value creation plans utilizing both in and out-of-court strategies. Most recently, Vlad served as a Chief Restructuring Officer of Teligent, Inc, a publicly traded topical and injectable pharmaceutical company. As part of his role, Vlad facilitated the operational realignment of the business in preparation for the sale of the company and oversaw a comprehensive multi-stage 363 sale auction of substantially all of its assets.

Vlad earned his MBA from the University of Southern Indiana where he also received his bachelor’s degree, majoring in finance and economics. In his spare time, Vlad is busy coaching his kids’ soccer, spending time outdoors with his family, playing golf and competing in numerous cycling events.

Oksana Lashko practices in the areas of corporate restructuring and bankruptcy. She represents debtors, creditors and investors in a broad range of matters, including Chapter 11 cases, out-of-court restructurings, cross-border insolvency matters, bankruptcy-related acquisitions and insolvency sensitive transactions and investments.

Oksana also advises clients on transactions involving multiple tiers of debt capitalization requiring complex intercreditor arrangements, syndicated leveraged transactions, acquisition financings, and debtor-in-possession and exit financings. She has represented a diverse range of clients in some of the most complex, high stakes restructurings spanning numerous industries, a sampling of which includes consumer, retail, technology, shipping, oil and gas, mining, energy, automotive, manufacturing, sports and financial services.

Fran represents major health care, industrial and utility companies in complex bankruptcy workouts and litigation. Clients facing massive toxic tort liabilities rely on his guidance to take them through the reorganizations necessary to preserve their businesses.

Areas of Focus:

• Finance

• Financial Restructuring and Insolvency

Francis J. Lawall concentrates in national bankruptcy matters and workouts, including the representation of major health care companies and creditors’ committees in commercial transactions, bankruptcy proceedings and general litigation throughout the United States. He also has broad experience in the reorganization of companies plagued with massive toxic tort liabilities, as well as companies in the energy, textile, automotive, clothing and construction materials industries. He has represented numerous buyers and sellers of assets in and out of bankruptcy proceedings.

In addition to his undergraduate degree in economics, Fran earned a master’s degree in economics and finance, which has proven vital in assisting clients in understanding and solving complex financial problems. he has lectured and published extensively on restructuring and credit issues. In addition, he writes monthly articles on current bankruptcy topics for The Legal Intelligencer (Philadelphia). He regularly presents educational seminars to the National Petroleum Energy Credit Association and the International Energy Credit Association. He has also presented numerous programs to the Philadelphia Bar Association on various topics, including Representing the Asset Purchaser in Chapter 11, and to the American Bar Association Subcommittee on Mass and Massive Torts, concerning the use of limited fund class actions as an alternative to bankruptcy. In addition, he routinely lectures to various creditor groups concerning general bankruptcy issues, including preferences, reclamation, the role of creditors’ committees and related litigation issues.

Gary H. Leibowitz is the head of the Baltimore Office and a member of the Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring and Litigation Departments. He maintains a national practice concentrated in the areas of corporate bankruptcy, creditors’ rights, and commercial litigation. He also maintains a sports law practice and is a licensed agent. Clients rely on Gary’s strategic and experienced advice to craft comprehensive and creative solutions to complex financial and legal issues.

Gary has served as debtors’ counsel in the retail, manufacturing, wholesale, real estate, auto and specialty products industries, among others. He has also represented official committees of unsecured creditors in cases across the country in the FinTech, skiing/golf resort and hospitality, gaming, technology, electronics, healthcare and wholesale industries. In these capacities, Gary has successfully restructured hundreds of millions of dollars of debt and coordinated the orderly disposition of a variety of distressed assets. In addition, he represents professional sports teams, DIP Lenders, asset purchasers, trustees, food suppliers, manufacturers, landlords, finance companies and others as creditors or stakeholders in Chapter 11 cases and complex bankruptcy-related litigation. Outside of the bankruptcy courts, Gary also regularly advises businesses and individuals in workout and restructuring negotiations with lenders.

Gary also has extensive experience in an array of complex business and commercial litigation, including shareholder disputes, fraudulent transfers, lender liability and business contracts. He has obtained successful trial verdicts and appellate decisions and crafted comprehensive settlements, in both state and federal courts nationwide.

Gregory Milne is Managing Director at FTI Consulting and specializes in restructuring and reorganizations as well as mergers and acquisitions, including providing advice to companies, creditors, shareholders and other interested parties. Mr. Milne has experience in a variety of industries including healthcare, financial services, chemicals, manufacturing, retail, media and foodservices.

Mr. Milne’s expertise includes conducting operational and financial due diligence, including business plan reviews and debt capacity analyses, advising companies and creditors on structuring, negotiating and refinancing various forms of debt and equity, as well as DIP financing. In addition, he has experience with the full life cycle of the distressed M&A process: marketing, valuation, diligence and flow of funds.

A representative list of client experience includes 21st Century Oncology, AES Hawaii, Arctic Glacier, Blue Stem, Catalina Marketing, Checkers, Deluxe Entertainment, FX Concepts, GNC, HDT Global, Home Solutions, Innovative Building Solutions, Isagenix, Panavision, Performance Bike, Porteous Fastener, LodgeNet, Rocket Dog, Sextant Education, Sports Information Group, The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, TransCentra, Universal Lubricants, Verizon Communications and The Weinstein Company.

Debra Morgan is a commercial real estate veteran with expertise in restructuring and dispute resolution. She has worked in bank special situations and CMBS special servicing and has resolved approximately $10b in real estate debt and helped place nearly $400m in opportunistic equity. Debra has served on credit committees, resolved over 30 bankruptcies without a cram-down during the financial crises, negotiated pooling and servicing agreements, partnership agreements and raised equity and debt for her own multifamily portfolio. Debra joined CohnReznick’s Restructuring and Dispute Resolution team in May 2022 and prior to that she ran her own debt advisory and consulting firm, helping clients with b-piece underwriting, debt restructuring and partnership recaps.

Debra is a graduate of the University of Texas at Dallas and holds a real estate sales license in Texas. She is an active member of TMA and a former co-chair of CREFC’s High Yield/Distressed Debt Forum.

Mr. Moses has 25 years of diverse experience across distressed investing, restructuring, debt & equity capital markets and advisory services both in the US and Europe. Decisive and detail-oriented by nature, Mr. Moses has been selected to participate in an array of complex chapter 11 cases, in or out-of-court restructurings, liquidations, distressed financial transactions and traditional equity investments. His expertise spans across a range of industries including energy, financial services, gaming, healthcare, leisure, media, metals and mining, real estate, retail, technology and transportation.

As Head of Province’s Institutional Creditor Advisory Business, Mr. Moses and the Province team quickly analyze complex business situations and use a consensus building approach to create solutions that satisfy represented constituents in a transaction. The practice focuses on reorganization advisory services for secured lenders, bondholders and other creditor groups, in or out-of-court solutions, pre-packaged/prearranged chapter 11 bankruptcies and traditional chapter 11 processes. In addition, Mr. Moses leads Province’s Financial Advisory for Independent Directors Business, which provides valuation services, board of director advisory services, pre-bankruptcy strategic alternatives and planning services among others. Recently, he served Province as an advisor in the cases of Murray Energy, Guitar Center, Intelsat, Sequential Brands and Washington Prime Group, among others.

Previously named #1 Distressed Analyst by Institutional Investor Magazine, Mr. Moses is a recognized thought leader in the distressed business category. He has invested in or worked on more than 100 transactions throughout his career at prestigious firms such as Lazard Freres, DLJ, Credit Suisse, Long Acre and TPG. Prior to joining Province, he was the Managing Principal and CIO for Pacific Creek Capital, an investment firm that he built from the ground up and ran for almost a decade.

Nancy A. Peterman is Chair of the Chicago Restructuring & Bankruptcy Practice. She focuses her practice on complex corporate restructurings and M&A transactions involving distressed companies. Nancy represents private equity funds, debtors, sellers, purchasers, investor groups, and creditors in these matters. Nancy has deep experience in health care restructuring.

Natalie Ramsey is co-chair of Robinson+Cole’s Bankruptcy + Reorganizations Group and the partner in charge of its Wilmington and Philadelphia offices. She practices in all areas of domestic and international restructurings, crisis management, financings, acquisitions in distressed situations and asset recovery litigation, often involving challenges to complex corporate transactions. Natalie is certified by the American Board of Certification accredited by the American Bar Association in Business Bankruptcy, and is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, where she presently serves as the Third Circuit Regent.

Cullen Drescher Speckhart is chair of Cooley’s business restructuring & reorganization practice group and has deep experience in corporate restructuring and financial litigation. Using this background, Cullen provides forward-focused advice to clients with respect to business risk management and strategic implementation. Cullen also provides tactical guidance to corporations in all aspects of solvency strategy, contingency planning, risk mitigation, and portfolio improvement through acquisitions and sales of assets and other distressed transactions.

Mike has over 20 years of consulting and management experience in the manufacturing, food and beverage, service, wholesale, and retail industries. He has worked in all areas of operations including finance, manufacturing, supply chain, warehousing/distribution, inventory management, planning/allocation, and IT.

As a consultant, Mike has been retained by numerous companies as a financial advisor in out-of-court and Chapter 11 restructuring engagements, as well as those seeking value creation assistance.

Professional Affiliations & Civic Involvement
Secured Finance Network ESG Task Force Lead
New York Institute of Credit Private Equity/Hedge Fund Committee Member
SASB Alliance Member

Accreditations
Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting (FSA) Level 1

Education
Duke University, Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Duke University, Masters of Engineering Management
Duke University, Master of Business Administration from the Fuqua School of Business

Paul H. Zumbro is a partner in Cravath’s Corporate Department and serves as the Head of the Firm’s Financial Restructuring & Reorganization (FR&R) practice. His practice focuses on restructuring transactions and related financings, both in and out of court, as well as bankruptcy M&A transactions. Chambers USA quotes a client as saying Mr. Zumbro is “a master of dealing with chaos” who can “impose order on chaos.” Others praise his “very detail-oriented and creative approach to matters” (Chambers Global).

Mr. Zumbro recently testified on divisional merger bankruptcies (also known as the “Texas Two-Step” bankruptcy practice) before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action and Federal Rights.

Mr. Zumbro represented PG&E in one of the largest and most complex bankruptcy cases in U.S. history to fairly and efficiently resolve liabilities resulting from the 2017 and 2018 Northern California wildfires. He also represented The Weinstein Company (TWC) in its voluntary petition for chapter 11 bankruptcy. Cravath served as lead counsel in the global settlement of potential claims against TWC and potential claims against various parties related to Harvey Weinstein’s misconduct. The settlement received overwhelming support from TWC’s creditors and is incorporated in TWC’s bankruptcy plan, which established a multi-million dollar fund from which survivors of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct may receive compensation.

Mr. Zumbro has been named a “Bankruptcy MVP” by Law360 and has been cited by Chambers USA, The Legal 500 US, The Best Lawyers in America, IFLR1000 and Lawdragon for his skill in bankruptcy and corporate restructuring. Mr. Zumbro was awarded Turnaround Management Association’s 2021 “Mega Company” Turnaround/Transaction Award for his representation of PG&E in its chapter 11 bankruptcy. Under Mr. Zumbro’s leadership, Cravath’s FR&R practice was named a 2020 and 2019 Practice Group of the Year by Law360, and Cravath was named the 2019 “Restructuring Advisory Firm of the Year” by The Deal.

Mr. Zumbro received a B.A. cum laude and with Distinction in the Major from Yale College in 1992 and a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1997, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Mr. Zumbro joined Cravath in 1997 and was elected a partner in 2004.