Mr. Jay M. Goffman

Jay M. Goffman is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Smith Goffman Partners, a merchant bank specializing in restructuring and distressed situations. Prior to founding Smith Goffman he was Client Chairman of Teneo?s Financial Advisory Business in New York. In this role, he led client development and execution for Teneo?s North American Financial Advisory business, while also working across the broader business globally. Prior to joining Teneo, Mr. Goffman was Vice Chair of Global Advisory at Rothschild & Co., a large international investment bank, where he advised clients across Rothschild?s Restructuring, Debt Advisory and M&A practices. Before Rothschild, he spent 36 years as a lawyer focused on restructuring, debt advisory and distressed M&A. For the last 24years of his legal career, he practiced at Skadden Arps, where he was the long-time global head of its CorporateRestructuring Department. Over the course of his career, Mr. Goffman has consistently been recognized as one of the leading and most innovative restructuring advisors in the world. He was named a ?Deal-maker of the Year? by The American Lawyer and one of the ?Most Influential Lawyers of the Decade?by The National Law Journal. He has also received several Lifetime Achievement and Hall of Fame honors, in addition to numerous philanthropic awards. Mr. Goffman is best known for having devised and pioneered the ?prepackaged? restructuring, which revolutionized the field of restructuring and has been successfully used over the past 35 years to reorganize hundreds of companies in a quick, efficient and cost-effective manner. As a result of his efforts, prepacks are now the predominant method used in major restructurings. Mr. Goffman has successfully reorganized businesses out of court and in court across multiple industries and geographies, including some of the largest, most high-profile and most complex cases in history. Many of his deals and accomplishments have been profiled in various publications, including The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Goffman has chaired restructuring panels and legislative review committees, in addition to chairing and speaking at numerous restructuring and distressed M&A conferences. He also has published extensively on restructuring, fiduciary duties and distressed M&A.Mr. Goffman received his B.S. in 1980 in chemical psychobiology from the State University of NewYork at Binghamton and his J.D. in 1983 with honors from the University of North Carolina at ChapelHill, where he was a member of the University of North Carolina Law Review. In 2018, the University of North Carolina School of Law presented him with its Distinguished Alumni Award.

Jay M. Goffman