Independent Sponsors & Capital Providers Dealmakers Meeting

Claudine Cohen is a managing principal and leader of CohnReznick’s Transactions & Turnaround Advisory practice.

In this role, she oversees an integrated team of transaction, valuation, restructuring, project finance, and dispute resolution professionals serving clients throughout the lifecycles of their businesses. With specific expertise in managing opportunities and roadblocks that can impact a business moving forward, Claudine and her team help clients achieve optimal outcomes in protecting and growing stakeholder value.

With more than 25 years of business experience, Claudine serves as an adviser to public and private companies, both domestically and internationally. Her clients comprise the full gamut of financial sponsors including private equity investors, independent sponsors, family offices, alternative investment funds, lenders, and strategic investors. Her areas of knowledge include strategic advisory, quality of earnings analyses, identifying revenue sources and profitability drivers, examining operating cost structure and sustainability factors, investigating business models including cash flow and financial projections, reviewing quality and realization of assets and liabilities, identifying working capital requirements and negotiating positions, post-close working capital verification, and adjustment mechanisms.  

Claudine is a member of CohnReznick’s Executive Board and co-leads the firm’s Financial Sponsors practice,  She was named to Mergers and Acquisitions 2019 list of the most influential women in mid-market M&A, and Crain’s NY 2018 most notable women in consulting. She has authored several articles focused on buy and sell-side due diligence, working capital, and purchase price allocation.

Marc Nadritch is a partner in CohnReznick’s New York office and a member of the Firm's Transactional Advisory Services practice. With over 17 years of experience, he has led financial due diligence engagements related to both corporate and private equity clients’ acquisitions in various industries with a primary focus on middle market transactions. 

Marc is well-versed in purchase price reductions, deal restructuring, deal termination, and other pre and post-acquisition transactions. Prior to joining CohnReznick, he worked for Anchin, Block & Anchin LLP in New York where he drove client expansion and transaction strategy as well as complex deal structuring with a primary focus on middle market transactions. Prior to Anchin, Marc held leadership roles at KPMG, Star Management, and Duff & Phelps.

Jeff is a Managing Director with CohnReznick Capital and is based in the Baltimore office. He has more than 30 years of experience across the corporate recovery marketplace with activities in investment banking, loan workout, operating restructuring, value investing, bankruptcy advising, and loan trading. Jeff’s expertise has resulted in CohnReznick Capital being named “Outstanding Investment Bank” by Turnaround and Restructuring Magazine, 2017 and 2018.

Prior to joining CohnReznick Capital, Jeff was a managing director at BDO Capital Advisors. He served previously as the Chief Executive Officer of FTI’s wholly-owned investment banking subsidiary. He also led the special situations practice at various Wall Street firms, including Legg Mason Wood Walker and Rodman & Renshaw. Prior to that, Jeff worked for S.N. Phelps & Co., a well-known Greenwich, CT based “vulture investor.” Early in his career, he focused on restructuring for Dun & Bradstreet and worked in the “special loans” group at Manufacturers Hanover Trust.

Jeff is a frequent speaker at industry and university events at Columbia, Wharton, and other prestigious institutions. He authored a chapter for the Thomson Reuters / Aspatore book Inside the Minds: Avoiding Financial Trouble, and Thoughts on the Future. Jeff’s chapter is entitled “Saving Technology and Service Companies from Chapter 11.”