Mr. Leon Szlezinger

Leon Szlezinger is co-head of Jefferies LLC?s Restructuring Department in New York and has more than 25 years of professional experience advising troubled companies and their stakeholders. He has advised company management and boards, secured lenders, bondholders and equityholders in bankruptcy matters and out-of-court restructurings in the U.S. and overseas. Mr. Szlezinger has also provided assistance to underperforming businesses and potential acquirers of distressed assets/entities, and has advised clients on general business issues. His industry specialization includes health care, industrial, real estate, energy and aviation, and he has advised significant stakeholders in such restructurings as Energy Future Holdings, Momentive, KV Pharmaceutical, American Airlines, Eastman Kodak, Quebecor, Delphi, En- ron, Parmalat and Federal Mogul, having testified on numerous occasions. Prior to joining Jefferies, Mr. Szlezinger was a senior managing director at Mesirow Financial Consulting and a corporate recovery partner at KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers. A former co-chair of ABI?s Investment Banking Committee, he has frequently been recognized as a top restructuring advisor by The Deal, has been included in the K&A Restructuring Register, been listed in the Bankruptcy Insider as a top creditor advisor, and was featured in Turnaround & Workouts?s ?People to Watch.? He also received the 2014 Mega Turn- around of the Year award from the Turnaround Management Association.