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El Paso, Tx, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Provides strategic leadership and direction to client advisory engagements throughout the country. Specializes in advising financially distressed companies and their stakeholders — and helping them to identify and evaluate strategic alternatives to recapitalize and optimize their capital structures.

Investment Banking, Capital Markets, and Restructuring. MML Capital Advisors, LLC is a middle market financial advisory firm with substantial expertise in general financial advisory and investment banking, specifically mergers and acquisitions, capital advisory, and financial restructuring.We serve a diverse set of clients including middle market companies, private equity groups and regional lenders throughout the United StatesOur target market generally focuses on transaction sizes ranging from $5 million to $200 million with a primary focus on Media and Telecommunications, Manufacturing and Industrials, Consumer Products, Distribution, Hotels, Restaurants, Hospitality, Automotive, and Transportation.

• Provide strategic advice, business planning, debt capacity, and debt placement advisory services to corporate clients in a variety of industries. • Responsible for raising $100 million from strategic investors to launch specialized direct lending fund.• Responsible for raising $200 million from insitutional investors for a real estate opportunity fund.• Managing fundraising and organization of major international TED Conference scheduled for 2021.• Offered investment banking services through affiliation with Capital Alliance.

El Paso, Tx, Us

• Oversaw team of 75 professionals in Asset Management, Institutional Development, Alumni Relations, and two specialized technology research business units.• Served on President’s Executive Cabinet, Audit Committee, and Endowment Compliance Committee. • Led University Development Board and President’s Economic Development Council.• Designed, executed, and managed major, award-winning capital campaign to honor President’s legacy, the “Thank You for 30” campaign.• Developed and implemented strategic plan to deliver sustainable competitive advantage in approach to donor market.• Emphasized operational excellence and continuous improvement in every aspect of all business units. • Mentored finance interns to organize the school’s first student investment fund.

Chicago, Il, Us

• Led cross-functional distressed municipalities’ initiative, resulting in five significant referrals. • Served as lead U.S. partner liaison to UK restructuring practice on insurance company private placement advisory mandates (domestic and cross-border).• Senior advisor to CIT on complex sale of $1.0 billion portfolio of non-performing assets in synthetic lease transaction.• Senior advisor to bank syndicate on restructuring a troubled dry bulk shipper in default of $1.1 billion of debt.• Senior advisor to German publishing company during solvent wind-down of its U.S. operations.• Senior advisor to Sharia-compliant sovereign wealth fund on restructuring and sale of approximately £500 million of debt on a mixed use real estate development project in the UK.

Chicago, Il, Us

• Recruited to start and lead U.S.-based restructuring practice; grew practice from four partners to more than 100 professionals in less than 18 months.• Senior advisor to Ford Motor Company with respect to strategic alternatives for various distressed automotive suppliers requesting financial accommodations. • Senior advisor to Bank of America in restructuring a $1.7 billion syndicated loan to a holding company controlling the voting shares of CBS and Viacom; indirectly held by Sumner Redstone.• Senior advisor to St. Vincent’s Hospital with overall responsibility for liquidity and cash management; led negotiations with vendors and landlords. • Senior advisor to distressed subsidiaries of insolvent UK based multinational firm; advised senior management and trustee on liquidity, debt capacity, and M&A alternatives.

Chicago, Il, Us

Senior advisor to Souper Salad, TaB Warehousing, Atkins Nutritionals, Gadzooks, Barneys/Loehmann’s, and several confidential sell-side and buy-side mandates.

Worldwide, Oo

Senior advisor to US Airways, Lens Express, Duke Energy, Global Crossing, and Brazilian media conglomerate TV Globo

New York, Ny, Us

Provided crisis management and distressed debt advisory services to debtor clients, including Fruit of the Loom and LTV Steel, working closely with legal counsel, unsecured creditors’ committees, secured bondholders’ committees, senior management, and engagement team.

Montreal, Qc, Ca

Extensive transaction experience, including buy-side and sell-side advisory mandates, and raising new debt and equity capital across a variety of industries. Expert in financial modeling in Excel.

GREENWOOD MILLS, INC.Vice President, Business Development, International Division• Identified and evaluated significant strategic business opportunities in international markets; presented recommendations to senior management and Board of Directors. • Traveled extensively throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America sourcing potential business opportunities and significantly developed firm’s international footprint.• Monitored, reported, and advised on performance of investments; served as board member of all strategic investments in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. GREENWOOD MILLS, INCExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, East-West Apparel, Inc.• Facilitated all aspects of start-up project (a denim jeans finishing operation), including the design and staffing of all administrative and financial functions; procured initial enterprise financing, and subsequent financing to consummate leveraged buyout of firm by minority shareholder; served as primary contact to banks, board members, and shareholders.• Developed and managed all activities related to enterprise financing, financial reporting and control and managed all administrative functions of company, including liquidity, accounting, human resources, and purchasing.• Responsible for setting direction, leading, financing and managing high growth company from start-up through divestiture. Assumed responsibility for numerous financial and strategic initiatives, including expansion of operating facilities into Mexico and development of vertically integrated denim jeans product line. Acting President of company from 1991 to 1992.• Managed working capital to support rapid growth of enterprise (1,000 employees within six months and $50 MM in gross revenues by the end of the fourth year of operations).• Initiated sales process, prepared confidential information memorandum, organized management presentations and led negotiations of sale of enterprise to Greenwood Mills in 1992.

Involved in all corporate loan processes from origination, structuring, pricing, and annual credit review process; prepared credit committee memoranda and presentations.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Finance