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Karen
Garza
Karen
has 11 years of finance and consulting experience. At LM+Co
she has provided advisory services to lenders, sponsors and
companies with revenues ranging from $75 million to $28 billion,
principally in the healthcare, automotive, telecom, energy,
textile, chemical, paper, cable and quick-service industries.
Recent engagements include: HealthSouth, Delphi, Adelphia,
Tender Loving Care, ACMI, Adelphia, a major paper converter,
and Wayn-Tex.
Karen’s
significant healthcare experience is diverse and includes
engagements in varied sectors within the industry. She has
supervised teams that have tackled complex financial and restructuring
issues, conducted due diligence for private equity clients,
and played an integral role in the sale of 100% of an manufacturer’s
stock to a strategic buyer.
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 12 years of finance and restructuring advisory
experience. His restructuring experience includes advising
debtors and various creditor classes in both in and out-of-court
restructurings. Brian’s experience in maximizing stakeholder
returns in turnaround situations ranges from short-term project
cost analyses to multi-year bankruptcy proceedings in numerous
industries, including: mortgage/retail lending, energy, consumer
products, manufacturing, automotive and food & beverage.
Prior
to joining LM+Co, Brian worked for CCV Restructuring where
he advised both debtors and creditors in restructuring assignments
as well as providing M&A advisory services. Brian recently
served as the lead financial advisor to Heating Oil Partners,
a $600 million oil distributor. His role was multi-faceted
and included: development and implementation of a new forecasting
model, leading the company in preparation for bankruptcy including
negotiations with pre-petition creditors and the execution
of a $100 million Debtor-in-Possession financing, analysis
and implementation of revised product hedging programs, execution
of cost reduction programs, negotiation of a consensual plan
of reorganization, improvement of working capital metrics
and raising $125 million in exit financing.
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.
Richard
C. Janda
Richard
brings almost 20 years of corporate finance and business development
experience to LM+Co . In this recently created role
he spearheads internal client development efforts, working
with the senior management of LM+Co to drive new business
generation, as well as supporting existing engagements.
Prior
to joining LM+Co , Richard served as Director of Research
for XRoads Solutions Group in New York, where he performed
a similar function by creating a comprehensive early-detection
system for distressed clients. In that capacity Richard
identified hundreds of potential new clients which resulted
in more than 100 pitches, while also working on a variety
of cases including Winn-Dixie Supermarkets, Levitz Furniture
and Fedders Corporation.
Richard’s
experience includes rating agency tenure in Fitch Ratings’
structured finance and bank loan group and more than a decade
of large corporate banking with Fuji Bank, then the world’s
largest bank, where he was a senior credit officer, and Vice
President & Relationship Manager.
Richard
earned an MBA in Finance/International Business from New York
University's Stern School of Business, and holds a Bachelor
of Arts degree in Economics from Boston College.
Adam
is an experienced CFO/interim manager with 13 years finance
and turnaround experience assisting domestic and international
companies ranging from $25 million to $1.5 billion in revenues.
He has successfully managed the financial aspects of turnaround/restructuring
cases in various sectors including technology, transportation,
textiles, construction and automotive parts manufacturing.
Adam’s recent clients have included companies such as
National Express Corporation, Retirement Residences REIT,
Lower Lakes Shipping, Peregine Systems, Komag, Burlington
Rugs, Matthews Studio Equipment, Winterland Concessions 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.
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).
David
R. Rentschler
Dave
joins LM+Co from The Huff Companies, where he was a Partner
and Research Director of the Huff Alternative Fund, focusing
primarily on private equity . Most recently, he served as
interim CEO of a portfolio company of the Alternative Fund.
In his 16 years with Huff, Dave was also Research Director
for WR Huff Asset Management which focused on high yield ,
and Huff Global which focused on emerging market high yield
. Prior to that, he was a Senior Research Analyst focusing
on mezzanine , high yield and distressed investments in the
energy, chemicals, healthcare, media/entertainment, cable,
paper and forest products, minerals and mining, and telecommunications
industries.
Before
joining The Huff Companies, Dave was a Senior Consultant with
the Valuation Group of Deloitte & Touche LLP. His primary
responsibilities included the valuation of companies and intangible
assets for tax purposes. Dave specialized in quantitative
and qualitative industry and company analysis, financial modeling/projections,
and valuation analysis.
Dave
earned an MBA degree in Finance from Lehigh University, and
holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the Pennsylvania
State University. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
Tom
H. Wang
Tom
has more than ten years of accounting, finance and consulting
experience. Since joining LM+Co in 2002, Tom has worked on
several creditor advisory engagements, including advising
the Senior Lender Groups in the Kmart, General Chemical and
General Media Chapter 11 cases. He has also been involved
in conducting non-core asset divestitures, feasibility analyses
and other bankruptcy-related services for Covanta Energy Corp.
subsidiaries. In the past four years, Tom has been actively
involved in advising the Board of Directors of a $600 million
auto parts manufacturer, a $400 million consumer products
manufacturer and a $1.2 billion transportation/logistics provider
on turnaround/profit-improvement strategies. He has focused
on customer profitability initiatives, back-office consolidation/integration,
overhead cost reduction and manufacturing/distribution restructuring
initiatives including, the transition of U.S. manufacturing
facilities to Mexico and outsourcing of products from Asia.
He joined
LM+Co after working with PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Transaction
Services (Mergers & Acquisitions) Group. He has served
both financial and strategic buyers and sellers in a variety
of industries, including manufacturing, entertainment, telecommunications,
mining, fast food restaurants and pharmaceuticals. While at
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Tom performed business and financial
due diligence on approximately 30 transactions, ranging in
size from several million to several billion dollars.
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 & Restructuring Advisor (CIRA).
Martin
Young
Marty
is a seasoned restructuring professional with over five years
of experience in helping banks, hedge funds and company management
navigate complex financial and operational restructuring issues.
While at LM+Co, he has worked on both company and creditor
engagements, representing debtors, senior lenders and unsecured
creditors. Recent engagements include Delphi Corporation,
Tower Automotive, Blockbuster, Adelphia Communications, Dan
River Inc., Best Textiles International, Baker Linens, Rosebys,
Marc Ecko Enterprises, and Global Home Products. Marty has
also worked on several M+A assignments (including 363 sales)
and corporate refinancings.
Prior
to LM+Co, Marty was a senior manager at the RCN Corporation
in 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, including
running a $100+ million sales organization and managing the
turnaround of the company’s New York operations. He also developed
the company’s Profitability Strategy which enabled key markets
to rapidly turnaround and achieve profitability, helping the
Company reorganize as a going concern. Before RCN, Marty gained
more than six years of operations, finance and management
experience in the telecommunications, automotive and information
technology industries.
Marty
is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West
Point and served as an Officer in the U.S. Army Infantry.
He earned an MBA from the Stern School of Business at New
York University and completed a Masters of Science in Operations
Research at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Marty is
a member of the Turnaround Management Association and Association
of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors.
Marty
is also a graduate of Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary,
with a Masters of Divinity. In his off time, Marty serves
in the NY ARNG's prestigious Fighting 69th as their Chaplain.
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