Experts & Advisors
Jens Nawrath
Senior Managing Director
Taunusanlage 21
60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Jens Nawrath is a Senior Managing Director at Ankura, based in Frankfurt. He brings more than 30 years of experience working with clients on debt advisory, financial restructuring, and mergers and acquisitions. Throughout his career, Jens has specialized in complex financings and financial restructuring mandates, working with both listed and private clients and with a range of debt products including investment grade, leveraged and structured finance, and asset-based finance. He has significant experience advising on refinancing, covenant amendments/waivers, broader stakeholder management, and non-performing loan portfolios for corporates, real estate, and shipping companies in stressed and distressed situations.
Experience
Prior to joining Ankura, Jens led the DACH Debt Advisory practice of a global consulting firm. He advised corporate and private equity clients on debt financings and helped to build a leading cross-border advisory practice. Further, he was also a partner at a Big 4 financial advisory firm, leading their German Debt and Capital Advisory team.
Jens spent more than 20 years with Commerzbank AG in different management positions, serving as head of portfolio management and equity and secondary in the bank’s restructuring division for more than 10 years. He advised the bank on landmark restructuring cases and non-performing loan portfolio transactions for corporates, real estate, and shipping. Jens also worked as a managing director at Leonardo & Co. GmbH and Corporate Finance Management GmbH.
Jens’s professional experience includes:
- Advising a large non-listed German chemical company on a EUR 280 million debt restructuring, including senior debt and Schuldscheindarlehen and loans backed by German state guarantees.
- Advising a German family-owned retail business on asset based lending.
- Advising a German family-owned furniture producer – debt restructuring, including loans backed by German state guarantees.
- Advising a German infrastructure company (offshore windpark) on restructuring its debt facilities.
- Advising on the disposal of multiple non-performing real estate portfolios, shipping, and corporate portfolios.
- Education
- Diploma, Economics (Accounting, Banking, and Financial Engineering), University of Pforzheim
- Affiliations
- Board member of Deutsche Kreditmarkt Standards e.V.
- Member of the Turnaround Management Association (TMA) (Gesellschaft fuer Restrukturierung – TMA Deutschland e.V.)
