Bruce Mendelsohn is a Partner in Perella Weinberg Partners’ Advisory business and is global head of Perella Weinberg’s Financing and Capital Solutions Group. He focuses on advising clients on capital structure advisory matters, including financing, restructuring, liability management, distressed M&A and other private capital solutions.

Mr. Mendelsohn has more than 35 years of investment banking and capital structure advisory experience assisting companies on a wide range of strategic matters. He is currently advising Spirit Airlines, FTX (as Debtors in Chapter 11) and Ligado Corporation, among others. During his tenure at Perella Weinberg Partners, he has advised Sabre Corporation on its $700 million private credit financing and subsequent $950 million bond exchange, Delta Air Lines in connection with its investment in connection with the LATAM Airlines restructuring; Royal Caribbean International on over $10 billion in financings and over $11 billion of bank facility maturity extensions and amendments; X Holdings (Elon Musk) in connection with its $12.7 billion financing and $44 billion acquisition of Twitter; Garrett Motion in connection with its $3 billion pre-arranged restructuring; California Resources on its $6 billion restructuring and prior $1 billion capital raise and tender offer; Concordia Resources on its $4 billion CBCA recapitalization; iHeart Media’s independent directors as part of iHeart’s $15 billion restructuring; International Automotive Components Group on its $215 million rescue financing; Icon Parking on its recapitalization; Memorial Production Partners on its pre-arranged Plan of Reorganization; and Millar Western Industries on its Canadian CBCA balance sheet restructuring, among others.

Mr. Mendelsohn also frequently represents private equity sponsors, including having represented Riverstone Holdings on its recapitalization of Fieldwood Energy; Quantum Pacific on its new money recapitalization of Pacific Drilling; Golden Gate Capital in connection with its new money recapitalization of Pacific Sunwear; and the private owner of Eco-Bat Holdings in connection with its restructuring and recapitalization, among others.

Mr. Mendelsohn has also worked with numerous secured and unsecured creditor groups, including having represented certain bondholders of Lionsgate Entertainment; one of the largest creditors of Sears; certain secured lenders of American Tire Distribution Corp; the ABL lenders in Video Equipment Rental; the ABL lenders in Algeco Scotsman; and various unsecured creditor groups of Cineworld, Windstream Holdings, Breitburn Energy, Seadrill Partners, and Bristow Corp, among others; and certain preferred holders of Ligado.

Prior to joining Perella Weinberg Partners in January of 2016, Mr. Mendelsohn was a Partner at Goldman Sachs where he worked from May 1998 to June 2015 and most recently served as Head of the Americas Restructuring Group and part of the U.S. Leveraged Finance team.  Mr. Mendelsohn was named a Partner at Goldman Sachs in 2010.  From 2006 to 2008, he served as Chief Underwriting Officer for North America, where he was a member of Goldman’s Firmwide Capital Committee and its Special Situations Specialty Lending Investment Committee. He served as Global Head of the Special Assets and Bank Debt Portfolio groups from 2000 to 2008, and began his career at Goldman Sachs in the Securities Division where he spent two years working on the distressed bond and bank loan proprietary trading desks. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Mr. Mendelsohn worked for UBS and MJ Whitman in restructuring and distressed securities. He began his career at Lehman Brothers.

Mr. Mendelsohn earned a Bachelor of Arts from Emory University and a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He currently serves on the Senior Advisory Board of Her Justice, a non-profit charity which provides pro bono legal services to women living in poverty, many of whom are survivors of intimate partner violence.

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