Mr. Ephraim I. Diamond

Ephraim I. Diamond is the founder of Arbel Capital Advisors LLC in Lawrence, N.Y. and is a independent restructuring executive, CRO and court-appointed fiduciary with 20+ years of experience leading complex restructurings, bankruptcies and distressed-asset situations. He specializes in real estate, public and cross-border capital structures, litigation trusts and court-supervised fiduciary roles. Mr. Diamond is regularly appointed as CRO, independent director, receiver and trust board member in high-stakes insolvency, governance and asset-recovery matters involving billions of dollars in capital. Prior to opening Arbel, he was the founding legal analyst for Davidson Kempner’s distress investment group, working on identifying, researching, analyzing, implementing, managing and monitoring investable, legal strategies in both traditional bankruptcy/distress, sovereign/municipal and general litigation and judgment enforcement situations. Mr. Diamond began his career as a bankruptcy associate at Paul Weiss, where he represented creditors, debtors, noteholder groups and lenders in both formal bankruptcy proceedings and out-of-court restructurings. In addition to analyzing credit documents, advising noteholder groups, guiding debtors and boards of directors through the bankruptcy process and negotiating and drafting plans of reorganization, he litigated interest accrual entitlements, claims objections and the limits of impairment. Working closely with the corporate practice, he also advised banks and lenders on complex structured products and lending transactions. Mr. Diamond received his B.S. in finance in 1996 from Tuoro University, and his J.D. in 2001 from New York University School of Law.