Direct, hands-on advisory for lenders, sponsors, and borrowers navigating problem loans, liquidity stress, and complex capital structures — led by nine years managing distressed and performing credit inside a $50B private credit platform.
Independent, robust management of problem credits — from the first covenant breach to a closed resolution.
Structuring and monitoring work for borrowers, lenders, and sponsors who want an experienced eye.
Details anonymized where confidentiality applies.
~£300mm-revenue manufacturer entered UK administration. Worked daily with court-appointed administrators to run a sale process, protecting jobs for 150+ staff, and negotiated a bilingual settlement with a non-lender-friendly German procurator over ~$50mm of collateral rights.
Repaid in full, including all interest and feesLead portfolio manager for a ~$121mm production financing facility — underwriting, insuring, and financing a season of a globally distributed TV series on a ~$52mm production budget. In the face of severe liquidity issues, ran the workout directly: cut exposure by roughly half, funded incremental capital ahead of a bankruptcy filing, and negotiated settlement terms with the writers, actors, and directors guilds alongside the company's investment bank and restructuring advisor. The company was ultimately sold to a public company.
Resolved via saleLead portfolio manager of a broadly syndicated $400mm revolving credit facility to a public company with roughly $2B in annual revenue. Ran the credit through the company's Chapter 11 process, negotiating and executing a debtor-in-possession facility to carry it through to reorganization. Upon exit from Chapter 11, underwrote, negotiated, and executed a new revolving credit facility with the borrower and continued to manage post-closing with substantially less exposure, due to effective borrowing-base negotiation.
Beyond the engagements above, credit work spanning skilled nursing facilities and hospitals, food distributors, entertainment, clothing manufacturers and sellers, waste management, construction companies, franchisees, oil and gas, and more.
Independent read on the credit, the collateral, and what each stakeholder values.
Protect liquidity and keep counterparties — lenders, guilds, courts, administrators, sponsors — at the table while a path gets built.
Structure the resolution — sale, settlement, refinancing, or rescue facility — to achieve your goals.
Execute the agreed path to completion, with the documentation and coordination that a clean close requires.
Nine years at MidCap Financial, a middle-market lender managed by Apollo Global Management, working private credit from underwriting through workout. Primary credit contact for 25 relationships totaling roughly $1B in commitments across asset-based, cash flow, entertainment, real estate, franchise finance, and 2nd lien facilities — with a specialty in taking the difficult ones through to resolution.
Going independent means the relationship is directly with me — no book of competing interests, no committee between the advice, and full alignment between myself and the client on next steps.
I've sat across the table from sponsors, borrowers, management teams, insolvency administrators, foreign procurators, and labor and union guilds. All stakeholders are important in a workout, and I'll manage the relationships directly.
Whether it's an early covenant issue or a facility already in distress, an early conversation costs nothing and usually narrows the options fast.