BIO

Investment professional with 20 years experience around financially distressed companies — from the principal and advisor side — including investing in and leading complex financial restructurings through in and out of court-observed processes globally as well as serving on boards of directors of troubled and reorganized businesses in the U.S and Europe.

REPRESENTATIVE ASSIGNMENTS

• LightSquared, Inc. & LightSquared, L.P. — Independent Director and Member of Special Committee overseeing Chapter 11 restructuring

• Midstates Petroleum Company, Inc. — Director of NYSE-listed oil exploration and production company

• Tanker Investments Ltd. — Director of Oslo Borse-listed international tanker shipping company

EDUCATION

• Tulane Law School, New Orleans, LA — J.D., cum laude, 1995

• Brandeis University, Waltham, MA — B.A. Economics & Sociology 1992

BAR ADMISSIONS

• New York State, New Jersey, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, United States District

• Courts for Southern District of New York, Eastern District of Michigan and District of New Jersey.

EXPERIENCE

• 2003-2013 Strategic Value Partners, LLC, Greenwich, CT and London, UK
  Managing Director

• 1997-2003 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLC; New York, NY
  Corporate Restructuring Attorney

• 1995-1997 Ravin, Sarasohn, Baumgarten, Fisch & Rosen; Roseland, NJ
  Corporate Restructuring Attorney

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

• Regular speaker on distressed investing at industry (INSOL, ABI, TMA) and investor conferences

• "Distressed Investing in Europe", ABI International Insolvency & Restructuring Symposium, Rome, Italy, October 2012

• "Distressed Investing: Value Funds and Their Impact Upon Restructuring", INSOL Miami, May 2012

• "Helping Your Hedge Fund Clients Trade Claims", ABI New York City Bankruptcy Conference, May 2012

• "Who's Afraid of Sovereign Debt", American Bankruptcy Institute Spring Meeting, Washington, DC, April 2012

• "Distressed Opportunities in Europe", 14th Annual Turnaround Conference, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA, March 2012

• "Distressed Investing Strategies and Tactics", TMA Distressed Investing Conference, Las Vegas, NV, January 2012

• "The Financing of Debtors and Insolvent Entities", International Bar Association’s 17th Global Insolvency and Restructuring Conference, Paris France, May 2011