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Isaac Lee

Managing Director

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555 S Flower St., Suite 4220
Los Angeles, CA 90071

+1.213.204.5819 Direct
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Isaac Lee is a Managing Director at Ankura with more than 25 years of experience advising on operational restructuring, liquidity management, and Chief Restructuring Officer engagements, as well as executing a broad range of recapitalization and restructuring transactions. He has significant experience advising management teams, governing boards, financial sponsors, investment funds, lenders, and creditors in both out-of-court and in-court situations. He is based in Los Angeles.

Experience

Isaac has significant experience in a range of industries including healthcare, retail, oil and gas, media and manufacturing/industrials. He has served in leading roles including Chief Restructuring Officer in numerous successful restructuring engagements including Borrego Community Health Foundation, MDC Texas Energy and Payless ShoeSource, Panavision, Reader’s Digest, and Pilgrim’s Pride.

Isaac’s CRO and advisory experience includes developing and implementing operational turnaround plans and liquidity management initiatives, developing and negotiating restructuring/recapitalization plans, and executing M&A and financing transactions. His experience also includes preparing business plans, cash flow forecasts, strategic alternatives analyses, liquidation analyses, and analyses of creditor claims and recoveries.

Before joining Ankura, Isaac was leading the West Coast practice efforts for PricewaterhouseCoopers’ restructuring group, where he was responsible for leading advisory engagements. Prior to that, he was a senior banker in the recapitalization and restructuring group at Moelis & Company, an investment banking advisory firm. His restructuring and investment banking experience includes positions at Jefferies, Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette, Salomon Smith Barney, and Chanin & Company. Isaac’s experience also includes private equity at Kenwood Investments.

Education
  • MBA, Tuck School at Dartmouth College
  • BS, Business AdministrationFinance, University of Southern California
Honors & Awards
ABI, 2023 Health Care Asset Sale of the Year: Borrego Community Health Foundation

M&A Advisor, 2024 Restructuring of the Year: Restructuring and Sale of Borrego Community Health Foundation

M&A Atlas, 2024 Distressed M&A Deal of the Year: Borrego Community Health Foundation Sale

TMA, 2024 Non-Profit Turnaround of the Year: Borrego Community Health Foundation
Affiliations
  • American Bankruptcy Institute Association of Insolvency & Restructuring Advisors
  • Association of Insolvency & Restructuring Advisors
  • Turnaround Management Association

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