Matthew D. Covington
Managing Director, Financial Restructuring
E-mail: mcovington@kginc.com
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Professional Experience:
Matt Covington has more than a decade of experience in financial restructuring and merger and acquisition transactions. Matt has advised companies, creditors and financial sponsors in both in- and out-of-court restructuring transactions across a wide variety of industries, executing transactions valued at over $11 billion. Matt specializes in assisting both debtor and creditor clients to find solutions in complex, time-sensitive financial restructurings.
Prior to joining Kibel Green, Matt was a Senior Vice President at Chanin Capital Partners, a leading restructuring advisory investment bank. At Chanin, Matt executed a wide range of distressed transactions, including Chapter 11 and out-of-court restructurings, recapitalizations, exchange offers, covenant waivers, litigation support and testimony, Debtor-in-Possession and Exit financings, and sales of companies or divisions (including via section 363). Prior to joining Chanin, Matt was in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group at Credit Suisse First Boston in New York.
Matt has participated in numerous restructuring panels, was a contributor to Steven Moyer's book, Distressed Debt Analysis, and is a guest lecturer at Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business. He passed the New York bar exam.
Matt holds JD and MBA degrees from the University of Chicago Law School and Graduate School of Business, and an AB in Economics with a minor in English Literature from the University of California at Berkeley.
Industry Experience:
Airlines, casinos, energy, food processing, forest products, heavy manufacturing, lodging and leisure, retail, telecommunications, transportation/logistics.
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