Javier Schiffrin joined M3 Partners’ advisory, restructuring, turnaround and performance improvement team as a managing director. Schiffrin has expertise in debt restructurings, having participated in complex financial transactions as a principal investor, investment banker and corporate lawyer.
“Javier is an outstanding addition to our roster of senior professionals who provide the highest level corporate and financial expertise,” Mo Meghji, founder and managing partner of M3 Partners, said. “The firm was founded to help clients overcome their most pressing challenges by bringing targeted teams with relevant industry and situational expertise to every engagement. With 20 years of experience in restructuring and distressed situations in roles ranging from financial to legal, Javier sees all angles and will bring tremendous value to our clients.”
Prior to joining M3 Partners, Schiffrin was a senior vice president at hedge fund Paulson & Co., where he focused on U.S. and European public distressed debt investments as a member of the credit fund and managed the financing component of private sponsor transactions. Prior to that, Schiffrin was at Macquarie as a director on the distressed debt trading desk and at UBS, where he served in the restructuring and leveraged finance group. Between 2000 and 2006, Schiffrin worked as a corporate lawyer at Cravath, Swaine & Moore and as a restructuring lawyer at Kirkland & Ellis.
“The past 20 months have brought unprecedented challenges to companies everywhere,” Meghji said. “While fiscal policy has provided a lifeline to many, we believe the long-term effects will come into focus in the next 12 to 24 months. Companies will need to shift from survival back to growth mode as they manage liquidity and maximize value, all within a changing operating environment. M3 is ready to help companies develop and implement the solutions they need to rationalize their balance sheets and to improve their operating performance.”
