CHICAGO, IL – The Turnaround Management Association (TMA), the premier nonprofit serving corporate renewal and restructuring professionals worldwide, is proud to announce the winners of the 2024 Turnaround and Transaction of the Year Awards. TMA will honor this year’s award recipients at the TMA Annual Conference, October 15 – 18, in Philadelphia, PA.
Since 1993, TMA has honored excellence through its annual awards program, which recognizes the most successful turnarounds and impactful transactions industrywide.
“This year’s TMA Turnaround and Transaction of the Year Award recipients are a testament to the dedication, innovative practices, and relentless commitment needed in the turnaround and restructuring industry to excel. They have proven to be in a league of their own.” says TMA Global Chief Executive Officer Scott Y. Stuart, Esq.
The Turnaround and Transaction of the Year Awards are chosen based on a rigorous peer-review process by the volunteer TMA Awards Committee. This process includes extensive diligence of each nominated case. As the judges review all components of each entry, they look for well-defined, measurable outcomes.
This year’s TMA Awards Committee was co-chaired by Sharon F. Manewitz, Manewitz Weiker Associates LLC, and John Salmas, Dentons Canada LLP. Awards submissions were reviewed and judged by the TMA Awards Committee members listed below.
The 2024 TMA Turnaround/Transaction of the Year Award Winners are:
Small Company Turnaround/Transaction— Xebec Adsorption Inc.
Sandra Abitan, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
David Agay, McDonald Hopkins LLC
Marc- Étienne Boucher, McCarthy Tétrault LLP
Jean- François Nadon, Deloitte Restructuring Inc.
Josh Gadharf, McDonald Hopkins LLC
Ilia Kravtsov, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Julien Morissette, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Julie Mortreux, Deloitte Restructuring Inc.
Jocelyn Perreault, McCarthy Tétrault LLP
Jeroen Thijssen, Clifford Chance LLP
Evert Verwey, Clifford Chance LLP
Small Company Turnaround/Transaction— Lucira Health Inc.
Olya Antle, Cooley LLP
Sean M. Beach, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP
Eric S. Chafetz, Lowenstein Sandler LLP
Robert L. Eisenbach III, Cooley LLP
H. Michael Hogan III, Armanino LLP
Ashley E. Jacobs, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP
P. Alexander van Dillen, Armanino LLP
Elizabeth Witko, Armanino LLP
Mid-Size Company Turnaround/Transaction— Ruby Pipeline LLC
Nikhil Angelo, Lazard Freres & Co
Madison Brown, FTI Consulting
Daniel DeFranseschi, Richards Layton & Finger
Eric Einhorn, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Aryeh Falk, Davis Polk & Wardwell
Kevin Glodowski, Lazard Freres & Co
Adam Goldberg, Latham
Tom Lauria, White & Case
Calvin Lee, FTI Consulting
Eric McCord, Kinder Morgan, Inc.
Doug McGovern, Parella Weinberg Partners
Zachary Rigoni, PJT Partners
David Rush, CTP, FTI Consulting
Damian Schaible, Davis Polk & Wardwell
Ray Schrock, Weil, Gotschal & Manges LLP
Michael Shepherd, White & Case
John Singh, PJT Partners
Sunny Singh, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Robert Stark, Brown Rudnick
Mid-Size Company Turnaround/Transaction— Bittrex, Inc.
Robert S. Brady, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP
Joanna Caytas, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP
Sedona Claypoole, Berkeley Research Group LLC
Laura Davis Jones, Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP
Ken Enos, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP
Evan Hengel, Berkeley Research Group LLC
Razmig Izakelian, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP
Alain Jaquet, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP
Susheel Kirpalani, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP
David Maria, Bittrex
Tim Pohl, TRP Advisors, LLC
Patty Tomasco, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP
Large Company Turnaround/Transaction— Proterra
Paul Basta, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Jay Borow, Berkeley Research Group (BRG)
Robert Britton, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Tom Califano, Sidley
Eric Chafetz, Lowenstein Sandler LLP
Jeffrey Cohen, Lowenstein Sandler LLP
Michael Colarossi, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
John D’Amico, Miller Buckfire
Jackson Garvey, Sidley
Donald Harer, CTP, FTI Consulting
Daniel Jerneycic, Alvarez & Marsal
Chris Kearns, Berkeley Research Group, LLC (BRG)
Bassam Latif, Moelis & Company
Patrick Layton, Moelis & Company
Andrew Magaziner, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP
Dave McGuiness, Moelis & Company
Chuck Moore, CTP, Alvarez & Marsal
Rick Polhemus, Moelis & Company
Justin Pugh, FTI Consulting
Dennis Twomey, Sidley
Ron Zaidman, Berkeley Research Group (BRG)
Mega Company Turnaround/Transaction— Revlon
Paul Basta, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Saul Burian, Houlihan Lokey
Robert Caruso, Alvarez & Marsal
Karn Chopra, Centerview Partners
Alice Eaton, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Seth Fier, Revlon, Inc.
Surbhi Gupta, Houlihan Lokey
Andrew Kidd, A. Kidd Consulting LLC
Matt Kvarda, Alvarez & Marsal
Angela Libby, Davis Polk
Scott Mates, PJT Partners
Elliot Moskowitz, Davis Polk
Mark Rajcevich, Alvarez & Marsal
Ethan Ross, PJT Partners
Robert Stark, Brown Rudnick LLP
Eli Vonnegut, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Steve Zelin, PJT Partners
International Company Turnaround/Transaction— Diebold Holding Company, LLC
Carlin Adrianopoli , CTP, FTI Consulting
Clark Ansel, CTP, FTI Consulting
Jon Cremeans, Ducera Partners
Avi Goldman, Ducera Partners
David Kiyosaki, FTI Consulting
Heather Lennox, Jones Day
Nicholas Morin, Jones Day
Dan Moss, Jones Day
Alex Raskin, Houlihan Lokey
Damian Schaible, Davis Polk
Hannes Schenk, Houlihan Lokey
Adam Shpeen, Davis Polk
Derron Slonecker, Ducera Partners
Eric Winthrop, Houlihan Lokey
Gunnar Wolfe, FTI Consulting
Vincent Vroom, Loyens & Loeff N.V
Non-Profit Company Turnaround/Transaction— Borrego Community Health Foundation
Narendra Ganti, FTI Consulting
Steven Golden, Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones
Isaac Lee, Ankura Consulting Group, LLC
Samuel R. Maizel, Dentons
Tania M. Moyron, Dentons
Charles Pease, Ankura Consulting Group, LLC
Jeffrey N. Pomerantz, Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones
Clifford A. Zucker, FTI Consulting
TMA 2024 Awards Committee
Co-Chair: Sharon F. Manewitz, Manewitz Weiker Associates LLC
Co-Chair: John Salmas, Dentons Canada LLP
John D. Baumgartner, Getzler Henrich & Associates LLC
Patrick Diercks, CTP, PKF Clear Thinking Group LLC
Joseph M. Esmont, Baker & Hostetler LLP
Neil Gupta, SSG Capital Advisors LLC
Randi M. Hershgordon, Gibraltar Business Capital
Matt Lupton, Meadowlark Advisors
DJ Miller, Thornton Grout Finnigan LLP
IIya Podolyako, Port
Jennifer Stam, Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
Bryce A Suzuki, Snell & Wilmer LLP
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