Tim Pohl is the owner of TRP Advisors, LLC, which he formed after retiring from the Restructuring and Capital Solutions Group at Lazard, where he was a Managing Director for over a decade. At TRP Advisors, Mr. Pohl provides strategic advice to companies, financial institutions and private equity firms with respect to distressed situations, troubled portfolio companies, and acquisition opportunities. He also serves as an Independent Director for a variety of companies.
At Lazard, Mr. Pohl advised corporations and other constituents in distressed M&A, complex restructurings and related transactions. Before joining Lazard, Mr. Pohl was the co-head of the worldwide corporate restructuring practice at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Mr. Pohl has extensive experience and expertise in all aspects of corporate restructurings, financing, and distressed M&A, having represented, both as an investment banker and attorney, large domestic and multi-national corporations, private equity sponsors, buyers and sellers of distressed assets, lenders, bondholders, hedge funds, institutional noteholders, and creditor committees.
Mr. Pohl has advised across a wide range of industries, including Oil & Gas, Power & Energy, Retail, Real Estate, Telecommunications, Technology, Airlines and Transportation, Manufacturing, Consumer Products, Financial Institutions, and Automotive, having led or been involved in many of the highest profile corporate restructurings over the past three decades. Mr. Pohl has also provided expert testimony on valuation and corporate and restructuring matters.
Mr. Pohl has been recognized as both a leading financial advisor and attorney, and an expert on valuation and corporate and restructuring matters, in multiple publications including Who’s Who Global Thought Leaders in Restructuring and Insolvency; Best Lawyers in America; Chambers Global Leading Lawyers (highest ranking); K & A Register Peer Group Listing Of Leading Advisors (as both a financial advisor and an attorney); Turnarounds and Workouts Outstanding Investment Bankers; Turnarounds and Workouts Outstanding Lawyers; TMA Large Transaction of the Year.