Peter S. Kaufman

Peter S. Kaufman is the President of Gordian Group. He heads the firm's Restructuring and Distressed M&A practice. Mr. Kaufman has recently been ranked the #1 national investment banker in financial restructuring by The Deal.

Prior to joining Gordian, Mr. Kaufman was at First Boston Corp, where he was a founding member of its Distressed Securities Group. He has over 25 years of experience in solving complex financial challenges, as both an investment banker and an attorney.

Mr. Kaufman has been involved in many of the firm's significant engagements, including, among others: Alert Holdings, Allied Digital Technologies, Ameriserve, Ben & Jerry's, Chiquita Brands, Colfor/Colmach, Enron, Farmland, Federal Communications Commission, Foss Manufacturing, Hooked-on-Phonics, IdleAire Technologies, IES, Intelogic Trace, Lamonts, Liberty House, London Fog, LTV Steel, Martin Color Fi, MBIA, MiniScribe, Mississippi Chemical, Morrison-Knudsen, Nationwise Automotive, Ogden Corporation, Osyka, Pacific Delight, Petsec Energy, Pentacon, Phar-Mor, Pinnacle Towers, RailWorks, Riedel Environmental, Safety-Kleen, Silicon Gaming, Solutia, Spansion, State of Vermont, Sudbury, Summit Global Logistics, The Walter Karl Companies, United Rentals, Waste Systems, and Zultys.

Mr. Kaufman is the founding Co-Chairman of the Committee on Investment Banking of the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI). He is also a Contributing Editor, on Ethics, for the ABI Journal. He has consistently been named one of the ten leading national investment bankers in financial restructurings by The Deal, and has been the subject of a Deal profile.

Mr. Kaufman comments frequently on national television programs, including Bloomberg TV, CNBC, CNN (including Anderson Cooper 360), Fox Business and NBC (Today Show) on matters relating to insolvency, corporate reorganization and federal "bailout" issues and stimulus legislation. He is often cited in leading print publications and international news services, such as New York Times, Reuters and Wall Street Journal.

Mr. Kaufman received Bachelor of Arts degrees (with Honors) in history and art history from Yale College (where he won three letters in lacrosse) and received a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was in the top 25% of his class.

Mr. Kaufman co-authored the leading book in the field, Distressed Investment Banking: To the Abyss and Back, published in 2005 by Beard Books LLC. He is also co-author of (i) "The Role of the Investment Banker," Bankruptcy Business Acquisitions, LexMed Publishing, 1998, which details various strategies and tactics used in distressed situations and (ii) "Trading in the Distressed Market," Investing in Bankruptcies and Turnarounds, Harper Collins Publishers 1991.

Gordian Group was recently announced as winner of both Chapter 11 Reorganization deal of the year and Retail Manufacturing/Distribution deal of the year for the Sale of Summit Global Logistics, Inc. by The M&A Advisor.

Mr. Kaufman is NASD-licensed in the Series 7, 24 and 63.

For Mr. Kaufman's complete curriculum vitae, click here.

To contact Mr. Kaufman, click here.

For Mr. Kaufman's vcard , click here .