Jeffrey Werbalowsky — Co-Chairman & Senior MD at Houlihan Lokey

Mr. Jeffrey Werbalowsky, known as Jeff serves as Senior Managing Director at Houlihan Lokey, Inc. since April 2013 and also serves as its Senior Managing Director. Mr. Werbalowsky served as a Co-Chief Executive Officer of Houlihan Lokey until April 2013. He is also vice-chairman of the board of directors of Fram Inc. As the global co-director of the Financial Restructuring Group, which he co-founded in 1988, he has led many of the firm's largest restructuring engagements. Before joining Houlihan Lokey, He served as a Co-Chairman of Houlihan Lokey, Inc. since April 2013. Mr. Werbalowsky was the chief executive officer of Cheviot Capital Corporation, an investment firm whose transactions involved bankruptcy and distressed situations. Before that, he was a member of Levene and Eisenberg and earlier, an associate with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he practiced law and specialized in bankruptcy, corporate reorganization and insolvency cases. Mr. Werbalowsky has written a number of articles, including ???Reforming Chapter 11: Building an International Restructuring Model,??? ???Allocating Value In Canadian and American Restructuring Transactions,??? ???Advising the Distressed Company,??? ???Evaluating Distressed Securities,??? ???Buying and Selling the Distressed Company??? and ???Deleveraging the Troubled Company.??? He has also testified as an expert witness on a variety of restructuring and distressed security issues. Mr. Werbalowsky earned a B.A. in economics magna cum laude from the University of Virginia and a J.D. with honors from Columbia University, where he was a Stone Scholar for three years and an editor of the Columbia Law Review.