Mr. James E. Millstein

James E. Millstein is the co-chairman of Guggenheim Securities, LLC in New York, the investment banking and capital markets business of Guggenheim Partners, a global investment and advisory firm. Prior to joining Guggenheim in 2018, he was the founder and CEO at Millstein & Co. His representative engagements at Guggenheim include advice to Fannie Mae in connection with its potential recapitalization, to Knighthead Capital and Certares Management in connection with their acquisition of Hertz out of chapter 11, and to the Governor of the State of California in connection with PG&E?s chapter 11. His representative engagements at Millstein & Co. include advice to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in connection with the management of its $75 billion of institutional indebtedness, to US Airways in connection with its acquisition of American Airlines out of chapter 11, and advice to Caesars in connection with its financial restructuring in chapter 11. From 2009-11, Mr. Millstein was the CRO at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he was responsible for oversight and management of the Depart- ment?s largest investments in the financial sector and was the principal architect of AIG?s restructuring and recapitalization. Prior to joining the Treasury, he served as managing director and global co-head of Corporate Restructuring at Lazard from 2000-08. Before joining Lazard, he was partner and head of the Corporate Restructuring practice at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. Mr. Millstein is an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches Federal Regulation of Financial Institutions, and an adjunct professor of law at Columbia University School of Law, where he teaches sovereign, municipal and corporate restructuring. He is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and was a commissioner on ABI?s Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11. Mr. Millstein received his B.A. in politics from Princeton University in 1978, his M.A. in political science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1979 and his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law in 1982, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.