Investment banking firm Gordian Group formed Gordian Equity Management Services. Paul Laud will build and run the new initiative.
Gordian Group announced Brian K. Gart will join the firm as a managing director and its general counsel. Gart has been a restructuring and insolvency professional for more than 30 years.
Gordian Group appointed Fred Zeidman as chairman of the firm, effective immediately. Peter S. Kaufman continues as president and Henry F. Owsley remains as Gordian Group’s CEO.
The union and pension fund representing Hostess Brands’ workers hired investment bank Gordian Group in connection with the company’s chapter 11 cases currently pending in the bankruptcy court.