Peter S. Kaufman

Peter S. Kaufman has been Managing Director of Gordian Group, LLC since 1990 and is President and Head of Gordian's Restructuring and Distressed M&A practice. Previously he was at First Boston Corp where he was a founding member of its Distressed Securities Group. He has over 25 years of experience in the business of solving complex financial challenges as an investment banker and 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, IES, Intelogic Trace, Lamonts, Liberty House, London Fog, LTV Steel, Martin Color Fi, MiniScribe, Morrison-Knudsen, Nationwise Automotive, Ogden Corporation, Petsec Energy, Pentacon, Phar-Mor, Pinnacle Towers, RailWorks, Riedel Environmental, Safety-Kleen, Silicon Gaming, State of Vermont, Sudbury, The Walter Karl Companies , 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 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.

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

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