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John S. Rudd

John S. RuddMr. Rudd is a partner in Newmarket Partners, LLC. He specializes in financial advisory services, including financial restructuring, investment banking, mergers and acquisitions, and bankruptcy. His professional focus is on identifying, developing, and implementing creative financial solutions for clients in financial distress. Mr. Rudd brings a multi-faceted perspective to his clients, having gained extensive experience as an adviser, lender, intermediary, CFO, workout lender, and bankruptcy specialist.

Mr. Rudd has experience in a number of industries, including manufacturing, distribution, and service industries, including Tier 1 and 2 automotive manufacturing, metals, petroleum refining, housewares and consumer products, hazardous waste, environmental services, and food processing.

Within the last 12 months, Mr. Rudd has been engaged in several major financial restructurings for clients, serving as financial adviser or Chief Restructuring Officer. With a focus on the implementation of financial solutions, recent engagements include:

  • Chief Restructuring Officer: Comprehensive workout and advisory services for a major manufacturer and distributor of home decorative products, financial and operational analysis, bank and creditor negotiations, refinancing services.
     
  • Advisor to the Bank Group: Financial advisory services to a multi-bank group, including valuation of potential suitors and evaluation of reorganization proposals.
     
  • Bankruptcy Advisor: Bankruptcy advisory services for a manufacturer of food products, restructuring advice, bank and creditor negotiations, merger and acquisition advisory services.
     
  • Court Appointed Receiver: Receivership and liquidation services for creditors of a major retail consumer distributor.

Prior to joining Newmarket, Mr. Rudd served as an independent financial adviser; Chief Financial Officer, of Paramount Petroleum, Inc., a $400 million petroleum refiner, and a corporate lender and workout officer for ING Group.

Education

  • MBA: University of Southern California, where he earned admission to Beta Gamma Sigma
  • BS, Economics: University of Minnesota.

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