Mr. Mark P. Kronfeld

Mark P. Kronfeld is a managing director at Province, LLC in New York and has over 27 years of experience as a bankruptcy lawyer, litigator, distressed investor, restructuring advisor and professor. He has led hundreds of successful restructurings, workouts and distressed transactions, and has significant expertise in high-stakes litigation and negotiations, investigations, corporate governance and investor activism. Mr. Kronfeld focuses on trustee and fiduciary services (e.g., litigation trustee, independent director, special committees, examiner, etc.), investigations, litigation services, restructuring and expert testimony. He has experience in restructuring and distressed investing across the capital structure across a wide range of industries and jurisdictions. Mr. Kronfeld has led numerous ad hoc and official creditor committees in corporate, municipal and sovereign restructurings around the world. He has also been involved in numerous activist situations and has led many litigation trusts. Most recently, Mr. Kronfeld was a senior executive at BlackRock, where he was the global head of Restructuring and served on BlackRock?s Global Credit Oversight Committee, where he was responsible for overseeing restructurings across the platform as well as related governance, litigation, credit-monitoring and risk functions. He was also as a senior member of the Office of the CIO, where he managed various U.S. special situations funds and credit mandates, and he led BlackRock?s internal credit training programs, as well as external training programs for such clients as foreign central banks, pension funds and sovereign wealth funds. Prior to Blackrock, Mr. Kronfeld was a portfolio manager at Plymouth Lane Capital, a managing director at BlueMountain Capital, a partner at Owl Creek Asset Management and a senior analyst at Aurelius Capital. Before his career in finance, he was a bankruptcy attorney and litigator, representing debtors, creditors, trustees and boards in complex chapter 11 cases. As a litigator, he handled a wide variety of commercial and bankruptcy litigation. He also served as a prosecutor in New York City, where he was a member of the elite Investigations Division and prosecuted cases involving complex white-collar crime, fraud, money laundering, corruption, organized crime and murder, achieving a 100% jury trial convic- tion rate. Mr. Kronfeld is a frequent lecturer, panelist and published author on corporate governance, distressed investing, litigation, restructuring and the credit markets. He also is a professor at NYU Stern, where he co-teaches Corporate Bankruptcy & Reorganization, and he is a lecturer at Columbia Business School, where he teaches Distressed Value Investing. He was also a bankruptcy law professor at Boston University School of Law and has guest lectured at Wharton, Duke, Yale, UVA and Oxford. Mr. Kronfeld is an active member of the Turnaround Management Association and ABI, for which he served as a member of the advisory committee for its Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11, which submitted its 2015 Report to the U.S. Congress. He received his B.A. from the State University of New York at Albany, his M.B.A. in finance from New York University and his J.D. from Boston University School of Law, where he was an Edward F. Hennessey Scholar and a research assistant.