MARC SCHNEIDER

Marc Schneider is an insolvency and restructuring expert with over thirty years of experience investing in distressed situations and advising investors on restructurings and liquidations, including cross-border transactions. Marc’s distressed investing experience spans multiple credit cycles.

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In addition to providing expert opinions in large commercial litigation, Marc is the founder of Twelve Lions Advisors, a financial advisory and investment management consulting firm.

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His prior experience includes being a Managing Director at Avenue Capital Group for ten years, where he invested over $2 billion in distressed situations, mainly in Europe. He led numerous cross-border restructurings over multiple credit cycles.

 

Marc led the formation of ad hoc creditor committees and directed negotiations with companies and stakeholders in several different international jurisdictions including, for example, AfriSam in South Africa and Global Closure Systems in France. He also directed Avenue Capital’s European funds’ investments in the basic materials sectors.

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Marc also served as a Director in Investment Banking at Salomon Smith Barney, where he focused on the global homebuilders and building products manufacturing sectors, working on cross-border M&A, restructurings and capital raises across the capital structure.

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A lawyer by training, Marc spent much of his earlier career in the early 90s at law firms, including Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP and Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, working on syndicated loans, asset-backed lending, public and private equity, bond offerings and M&A transactions.

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Marc currently serves as Treasurer of the New York Alternative Investment Roundtable, a non-profit organization committed to delivering insights and promoting best practices in the alternative investment industry.

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Marc holds a J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law and graduated from Lehigh University with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering.