Miller Buckfire & Co. is an

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firm that provides various advisory services, focused on

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s. In addition to its core restructuring business, the firm provides

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advisory and valuation services as well as capital raising, and private placements of debt and equity. The firm specializes in the transportation, retail, media and communication, entertainment, power, food and consumer and financial services sectors. The firm is based in

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. The various investment bankers of Miller Buckfire collectively have represented more than 100 companies, restructured approximately $350 billion of debt, advised on over $19 billion of mergers and acquisitions and raised more than $60 billion in financing. Since its founding in 2002, Miller Buckfire has served as restructuring advisers on several major bankruptcies including

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History

Miller Buckfire was founded in July 2002 as Miller Buckfire Lewis & Co. by Henry Miller, Kenneth Buckfire and Martin Lewis, who previously led the

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groups at

Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein SG Kleinwort Hambros is a private bank owned by Société Générale that offers financial services from offices throughout the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Gibraltar. History In June 2016, Société Générale acquired Kleinwort Benson ...

and Wasserstein Perella & Co. Following the acquisition of Wasserstein Perella by Dresdner Kleinwort Benson in 2001, Miller, Buckfire and Lewis found they were being precluded from many restructuring assignments due to conflicts with Dresdner's loan portfolio. As a result, the trio acquired their business through a spinout from Dresdner and launched Miller Buckfire as an independent firm. In 2003, the firm added a fourth partner David Ying to form Miller Buckfire Lewis Ying & Co. but following the 2004 departure of Martin Lewis and the 2005 departure of David Ying, the name of the firm was shortened to its current Miller Buckfire & Co. In 2007,

Sal. Oppenheim Sal. Oppenheim was a German private banking, private bank founded in 1789 and headquartered in Cologne, Germany. It provided asset management solutions for wealthy individual clients and institutional investors. In 2009, the bank became a subsidia ...

acquired 10% of Miller Buckfire as part of a strategic partnership between the two firms.Miller Buckfire & Co., LLC of the U.S. and Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie. of Germany Announce Strategic Alliance
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Chairman and CEO Harvey Golub was appointed Chairman of Miller Buckfire in October 2011. In 2012, the company was acquired by

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