Brian K. Gart to Join Gordian Group as Managing Director and General Counsel
NEW YORK, May 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Gordian Group, LLC today announced that Brian K. Gart will be joining the firm as a Managing Director and its General Counsel. Gordian Group is a New York-based investment bank specializing in advising boards of directors in complex, distressed and/or "storied" financial challenges, with a special focus in providing conflict free advice geared to maximizing shareholder value, as well as distressed, complex and middle-market M&A transactions and to arranging capital solutions for companies both in and out-of-court.
Mr. Gart has been a restructuring and insolvency professional for over 30 years as a partner at the Florida-based law firm of Berger Singerman LLP since 2008, and before that, as a principal shareholder at the international law firm of Greenberg Traurig LLP, where he helped start that firm's business reorganization department. Brian has in-depth experience in all manner of complex business bankruptcy cases, distressed transactions, out-of-court restructurings, and other types of insolvency proceedings. Over the last 15 years, Brian has focused a significant amount of his professional time structuring the purchase and sale of assets and distressed businesses under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code and structuring DIP financing in connection with such transactions.
Peter S. Kaufman, Gordian Group's President, and Henry F. Owsley, Chief Executive Officer, jointly commented, "We have developed a long-term professional and personal relationship with Brian, and look forward to working with him to expand our practice in the Miami, South Florida, Florida, and the Southeast and Latin American markets." They continued saying that, "Brian will help deepen our presence in these regions. Our primary focus here, as elsewhere, will be private equity sponsors, entrepreneurs and boards of directors nationwide; these groups constitute the core of our overall restructuring client base, both middle market and otherwise, for whom we work to preserve and enhance existing equity value."
Mr. Gart said, "I believe that the market we are addressing has long been underserved in respect of the sophisticated caliber of restructuring, transactional and corporate governance skills Gordian Group brings to the table. I have long admired Gordian Group, and believe that together we will build a very successful practice. I am pleased to have this opportunity to augment Gordian Group's existing franchise."
About Gordian Group
Founded in 1988, Gordian Group is an investment bank providing advisory services with respect to financial restructurings, complex, "story" and/or distressed M&A and capital raises, both in and out of bankruptcy, as well as structured finance remediation, opinions and expert witness and litigation support services.
Gordian Group is continually recognized as a national leader in solving complex issues and has completed over 275 engagements on behalf of companies, boards of directors, and shareholders (including entrepreneurs and private equity firms), as well as a decades long history advising banking and insurance institutions and regulators, state governments and federal agencies.
Peter Kaufman and Henry Owsley are co-authors of the definitive work in the field, Distressed Investment Banking: To the Abyss and Back, (Beard Books, 2005), and the recently published Equity Holders Under Siege: Strategies and Tactics for Distressed Businesses, (Beard Books, 2014); both books are "must-read" for boards of directors, management teams and shareholders and/or owners of financially stressed situations, as well as for buyers and professionals.
For more information, visit www.gordiangroup.com.
SOURCE Gordian Group
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