Christopher P. Curti

Chris has more than 13 years of banking, consulting and financial services experience, including seven years of bankruptcy and restructuring work. Chris has advised both debtors and creditors in Chapter 11 cases and out-of-court restructurings, and has managed workout accounts as a lender.

Since joining LM+Co in 2008, Chris has been involved with both lender and debtor advisory engagements. Recent assignments include advising lenders in Foamex International L.P., and debtor advisory for Mark Ecko Enterprises. Chris is currently part of the CRO team for National Envelope Corporation, a $650 million paper products company.

Prior to joining LM+Co, Chris was a Vice President with GE Capital’s Distressed Debt team, where he was responsible for managing accounts in workout as well as committing new capital to distressed situations. Chris focused on middle market companies with revenues between $100 million and $1 billion across a broad spectrum of industries.

Prior to GE, Chris advised unsecured creditors in complex Chapter 11 cases including Federal Mogul, Kaiser Aluminum, ANH Refractories and Combustion Engineering. Prior to entering the restructuring industry, Chris held various consulting and financial analyst positions with Bankers Trust Company and PriceWaterhouse LLC.

Chris earned his MBA in Finance from Yale School of Management and holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Accounting from Bucknell University.

Karen B. Garza

Karen has 14 years of turnaround/restructuring advisory, financial services and investment banking experience. At LM+Co she has provided advisory services to lenders, creditors, sponsors and companies with revenues from $75 million to $28 billion. She has experience advising in situations in a diverse range of business sectors, including: commercial and residential real estate, healthcare, newspaper, building products, automotive, telecom, chemical, paper, cable and quick-service industries. Recent engagements include: Capmark Financial Group, Journal Register Company, Masonite International, HealthSouth, Delphi, Wellman, Adelphia Communications Corp., Tender Loving Care and National Envelope Corp.

While at LM+Co she has supervised teams that have tackled complex financial and restructuring issues, restructured debt and negotiated terms, assisted in 363 asset sales, conducted due diligence and financial modeling, participated in the implementation of a six sigma program and played an integral role in the sale of 100% of an manufacturer’s stock to a strategic buyer outside of bankruptcy.

Prior to entering the restructuring field, Karen was an Associate in the Power Group of Lehman Brothers’ Investment Banking Division in London. She has also worked with ABN AMRO Bank in the Treasury Department and as a Portfolio Manager, and began her career as a pension consultant for Hewitt Associates.

Karen earned her MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, and received a Bachelor of Arts in International Economics, Political Science & Hispanic Studies from Northwestern University. She is a member of the Turnaround Management Association (TMA), the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors (AIRA) and the Association for Corporate Growth. Karen is fluent in Spanish.

Brian J. Griffith

Brian has more than 13 years of finance and restructuring advisory experience. His turnaround experience includes advising both debtors and creditors in bankruptcy proceedings and out-of- court restructurings. Brian’s experience in turnaround situations ranges from short-term project cost analyses to multi-year bankruptcy proceedings in a variety of industries, including real estate development, insurance services, healthcare, commercial /residential mortgage services, energy, consumer products, manufacturing, automotive and food services.

Since joining LM+Co, Brian has been involved in the ongoing restructuring of Capmark Financial Group, numerous real estate development deals, life-settlement portfolio resolutions and certain transaction advisory assignments.

Prior to joining LM+Co, Brian worked for both FTI Consulting and CCV Restructuring where he advised both debtors and creditors in restructuring engagements as well as transaction advisory assignments. His prior experience includes serving as the lead financial advisor to Heating Oil Partners, a $600 million oil distributor. His role included: developing and implementing a new forecasting model, leading the company in preparation for bankruptcy, analyzing and implementing a revised product hedging program, executing cost reduction programs, negotiating a consensual plan of reorganization and improving working capital metrics.

Brian also has significant experience advising lenders in power generation workouts including: a 600MW gas-fired facility in Texas, a 550MW gas-fired facility in the New Hampshire and a 125MW RFO facility in Pakistan.

Brian earned his MBA with honors from Fordham University and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from Villanova University. He is a Certified Insolvency & Restructuring Advisor (CIRA) and is a member of the Turnaround Management Association.

Bart Gutierrez

Bart brings 15 years of consulting and management experience to LM+Co, including management consulting, corporate rescue services and corporate finance serving Fortune 500 and middle-market clients across a broad range of industries. Since joining LM+Co in 2009, he has advised clients in the transportation and technology sectors, but spent the majority of that time in the commercial real estate sector, advising Capmark Financial Group.

Prior to joining LM+Co, Bart served as a Director with XRoads Solutions Group in New York, where he developed a revenue growth strategy for a national transportation carrier, created a marketing operating model for one of the largest North American apparel retailers, and developed customer initiatives focused on the call centers of a national wireless operator to improve customer service.

Earlier in his career, Bart served as an associate at A.T Kearney. His work included conducting a profit improvement initiative for a national food service distributor, and managing a strategic sourcing effort for a major North American automotive OEM.

Bart earned an MBA in Strategy and Management from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from The United States Military Academy at West Point. Bart is a member of the Turnaround Management Association.

Stacey Hightower

Stacey is an experienced restructuring professional with more than 10 years of financial and operational restructuring experience. Stacey’s experience as a restructuring advisor includes engagements where he acted as interim COO and interim Corporate Treasurer for clients across a broad range of industries, including financial institutions, manufacturing, mortgage lending and telecommunications companies. He has worked on cases that resulted in the restructuring of more than $4 billion of debt, several 363 sales and operational restructurings.

Prior to joining LM+Co, Stacey was an independent consultant and provided strategy, operational and liquidity advisory services. Prior to independent consulting, Stacey was a Director in the turnaround and restructuring services group at AlixPartners .  There, he worked on several successful turnarounds including New Century Financial, Refco Financial Inc., Techni-Plex , AT&T Latin America and Sunterra. His experience includes advising boards, successful emergence from Chapter 11, business plan development, cash flow improvements, cost reduction initiatives for equity sponsors, managing due diligence processes, asset recovery and creditor resolution. 

Stacey earned his MBA from Yale University School of Management and holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Washington University. He is a Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor (CIRA).

Sridharan Kannan

Srid has more than 12 years of corporate finance, investment banking, leveraged finance, restructuring and private equity experience. He has executed more than 30 transactions for private equity-owned companies including restructurings, leveraged buyouts, acquisition financing, M+A and initial public offerings, totaling nearly $15 billion in aggregate value. Srid’s transaction experience encompasses a broad array of leveraged finance products including syndicated loans, second lien loans, high yield and mezzanine debt.

Srid’s industry experience spans across energy, chemicals, media, consumer products, retail and health + fitness. He has advised private-equity backed companies such as Targa Resources, Tensar International Corporation, Reddy Ice, Innophos Holdings, Heafner Tire Group and Excel Mining Systems. Specific restructuring/distress financing assignments have included Champion Enterprises, Targus Group, American Tire Distributors, American Skiing Company and Merisant Worldwide. Srid’s private equity relationships include Arcapita , Snow Phipps Group, Littlejohn & Co, Evercore Partners, Charlesbank Capital Partners, Black Diamond Capital Management, Bain Capital and Pegasus Capital Advisors, to name a few. He has also executed several transactions for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co , Oak Hill Capital Partners, Warburg Pincus and Cerberus Capital Management.

Prior to joining LM+Co, Srid spent eight years at Credit Suisse in their Financial Sponsor Coverage/ Leveraged Finance Origination group, and one year with Global Infrastructure Partners, a $5.6 billion infrastructure PE fund started jointly by Credit Suisse and General Electric. Prior to Credit Suisse, Srid was at Jefferies & Company in their Energy Investment Banking group in Houston. He also spent six years as a mechanical engineer, both in India and in the U.S., advising steel, oil & gas and chemical companies.

Srid earned his MBA in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson University and a Bachelor of Engineering from Coimbatore Institute of Technology, India. He is a member of the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors (AIRA).

Adam is an experienced CFO/interim manager with 14 years finance and turnaround experience assisting distressed and underperforming domestic and international companies with revenues of up to $1.5 billion. He has successfully managed the financial aspects of turnaround/restructuring cases in various sectors including branded apparel, technology, transportation, textiles, construction, automotive parts manufacturing, shipping/logistics, healthcare, equipment rental.

Adam’s recent clients have included companies such as Ecko Unlimited, Marcal Paper, Autocam , National Express Corporation, Retirement Residences REIT, Lower Lakes Shipping, Peregine Systems, Komag, Burlington Rugs, Matthews Studio Equipment, Winterland Concessions, Novopharm , FastFrate and Industrial Parts Depot.

Prior to joining LM+Co, Adam worked as an independent consultant in a variety of interim CFO and financial advisory roles. Formerly, Adam was a Director at Crossroads LLC, focused on turnaround and crisis management. Prior to this, Adam was a Senior Manager in the Business Recovery Services Group of PricewaterhouseCoopers. in the firms Toronto office. Accordingly, Adam is well versed in issues that typically arise in the course of reorganizing or restructuring companies in Canada. Insolvency files in Canada have included Income Trust Company, Monarch Trust, Olympia & York, Eaton’s, Ajax Precision Manufacturing, Home Products Distribution, H.E. Carson & Sons.

Adam earned an MBA from the University of Toronto, and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from University of Western Ontario. He is a Chartered Accountant (CA) and a member of the Turnaround Management Association (TMA).

Adam G. Sell

Adam has more than 13 years of debt structuring and capital markets experience, having worked on leveraged buyout and stand-alone corporate financing transactions. He has executed 40 debt placements, raising over $26 billion of financing. His experience covers the full spectrum of debt products: asset-based facilities, senior secured loans, second lien loans, senior unsecured and senior subordinated high yield bonds and mezzanine facilities.

Adam’s industry expertise includes consumer products, retail, restaurants, manufacturing and general industrial. The financing transactions he has executed range in size from small, middle-market companies to large cap, multinational corporations. Notable transactions include General Nutrition Centers, Michael’s Stores, Dollarama , Domino’s Pizza, Rinker Boat Company, Roofing Supply Group, Vetellus Specialties and Coinstar.

Since joining LM+Co in January 2009, Adam has been involved in assignments advising both debtors and creditors across a variety of industries. Engagements of note include a complex balance sheet restructuring for a sports/media/real estate company, and a detailed business plan review for Atrium Windows and Doors.

Prior to joining LM+Co, Adam was an Executive Director in JPMorgan’s Leveraged Finance Group, focusing primarily on financial sponsor-related transactions. He was responsible for managing financing transactions from inception to closing, leading all aspects of the transaction, including due diligence, facility structuring, and marketing + syndication. Adam’s equity sponsor clients have included Ares Management, Bain Capital, Blackstone Group, Code Hennessy & Simmons, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board and The Sterling Group.

Tom H. Wang

Tom has 12 years of accounting, finance and restructuring experience. He has been with LM+Co since 2002. During his tenure with the Firm, Tom has been involved in both restructuring and performance improvement engagements.

Tom’s debtor-side engagements have included advising the Board of Directors of Safelite Group ($600 million auto windshield provider), Werner Ladder ($400 million ladder manufacturer), Greatwide Logistics Services ($1.2 billion transportation/logistics provider) and Foundation Surgical Hospital ($50 million orthopedic hospital) on turnaround, performance improvement and liquidity enhancement strategies. He has deep experience on customer/product profitability analyses, back-office consolidation, vendor negotiations, working capital optimization, overhead cost reduction and manufacturing/distribution restructuring activities including, the transition of U.S. manufacturing facilities to Mexico and outsourcing of products from Asia. Tom also served as the Assistant CRO on both Werner Ladder and Greatwide Logistics during their Chapter 11 cases.

Tom has also worked on various senior lender engagements, advising the Steering Committees of Quality Home Brands, Targus International, FlexSol Packaging, Barzel Industries, Kmart and General Chemical. He has been involved with both in and out-of-court restructuring solutions for lenders.

Tom joined LM+Co after working in the Transaction Services (M+A) Group at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He served both financial and strategic buyers in a variety of industries, performing business and financial due diligence on over 30 transactions.

Tom graduated Summa Cum Laude from Babson College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), a Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP) and a Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor (CIRA).

Martin Young

Marty is a seasoned restructuring and turnaround professional with over 15 years of financial and operational restructuring experience. While at LM+Co, he has worked on over 30 engagements across the entire restructuring spectrum, advising companies, senior lenders, unsecured creditors and equity sponsors. Recent engagements include Dollar Thrifty, Delphi Corporation, Tower Automotive, Masonite , Adelphia, Young Broadcasting, New Vision Television, Pamal Broadcasting, Silicon Graphics, Blockbuster, Ecko Unlimited, Dan River, Best Textiles and Anchor Hocking Glass. In addition to over $10 billion of debt restructurings, Marty has also advised companies on performance improvement, strategic acquisitions, corporate divestitures, business valuations, and corporate financings. He is an experienced crisis manager, having served as Deputy CRO, COO, CAO and VP Finance on various engagements.

Prior to LM+Co, Marty was a senior manager at the RCN Corporation on an internal turnaround team during the telecommunications company’s successful restructuring of $1.8 billion in debt. At RCN, he assumed various crisis management roles and developed the company’s profitability strategy which enabled key markets to rapidly turnaround and achieve profitability, helping the company successfully reorganize. Before RCN, Marty gained more than five years of management and operations experience in the telecommunications, automotive and information technology industries. He has done extensive performance improvement work in automotive retail with AutoNation, Ford and a dozen of the largest mega-dealers and has advised DuPont and GM on improving their automotive after-market supply chains.

Marty is a West Point graduate and served as an Officer in the U.S. Army Infantry. He earned an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business and an MS in Operations Research from Georgia Tech. Marty is a member of the Turnaround Management Association and a Certified Turnaround Professional Designate. He is also a member of the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors. Marty, through his service in the military, holds a Secret Security Clearance.

Marty is also a graduate of Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, with an MDIV and ThM. Marty serves in the New York ARNG’s prestigious Fighting 69th as their Chaplain.

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