Mark Catania - Vice President
Mr. Catania is a Vice President at Chanin Capital Partners. He has extensive experience in all phases of financial restructurings and recapitalizations, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate financings, and capital raising. Mr. Catania’s current and recent restructuring assignments include Controladora Comercial Mexicana, ProtoStar, Allied Holdings, Loral Space & Communications, Mercury Interactive, Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts, Tricom S.A. and Direct Ventures.
Prior to joining Chanin Capital Partners, Mr. Catania was formally a founding member and President of Ellipsis Capital, an investment management company focused on small business value and consolidation opportunities. While at Ellipsis Capital, he was responsible for the evaluation and analysis of all investment opportunities, new business strategy and operational management.
Before founding Ellipsis Capital, Mr. Catania was a Senior Associate at The Catalyst Capital Group, a $1 billion private equity investment fund focused on distressed and undervalued situations. He was responsible for primary execution of investment analysis committing over $100 million of capital to investments.
Mr. Catania began his career in the Investment Banking division of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette’s (later, Credit Suisse First Boston) Los Angeles office. As a generalist, Mr. Catania worked on various high yield, leveraged buyout, merger & acquisition and distressed investment transactions.
Mr. Catania earned his Honors Business Administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario, London Canada.
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Matthew Gates - Vice President
Mr. Gates is a Vice President with Chanin Capital Partners in Los Angeles. He has extensive experience with restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, and financing transactions in a wide range of industries.
Prior to joining Chanin Capital Partners, Mr. Gates was a Vice President in the mergers and acquisitions group of Merrill Lynch.
Previously, Mr. Gates was in the financial restructuring group of Houlihan, Lokey, Howard & Zukin, providing advisory services in a range of restructuring and distressed M&A transactions. Notable restructuring assignments include Atlas Air, SpectraSite Holdings, Farmland Industries, and VarTec Telecom.
Mr. Gates earned his Master of Business Administration in Finance, Strategy, and Accounting and his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics at the University of Chicago.
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Brendan J. Murphy - Vice President
Mr. Murphy is a Vice President at Chanin Capital Partners and joined the firm in 2004. His experience includes corporate and asset appraisal including debt restructuring, capital structure assessment, extensive valuation, and liquidation analysis. He has executed deals throughout all phases of financial restructurings and represented clients within all levels of the capital structure, both in and out-of-court. Current and recent assignments include Aker Kvaerner, Arlington Hospitality, BHM Technologies, Citadel Broadcasting Corporation, Delphi Corporation, Global Power Equipment Group, Hampton’s Homes, Hayes Lemmerz International, Immunicon Corporation, Intermet Corporation, Kvaerner Pharmaceuticals, Motor Coach Industries, NeoplanUSA, Pac-West Telecomm, Pan American Hospital, Performance Transportation Services, Philadelphia Newspapers, Philadelphia Shipyard, Stelco, Supercanal Holdings, Sunterra Europe, The Star Tribune Company, Ultimate Electronics, Inc., Visteon Corporation, WHX Corporation, and WorldSpace, Inc., among others.
Prior to joining Chanin Capital Partners, Mr. Murphy worked as a Senior Associate in the Corporate Value Consulting practice of Standard & Poor’s in Houston, Texas. He assisted clients with merger and acquisition advisory and valuation analyses related to bankruptcy/fresh start accounting, financial reporting, government regulatory, litigation, and tax purposes. While at Standard & Poor’s, some of Mr. Murphy’s clients included Babcock & Wilcox, BP, Cornell Companies, Marathon Oil, Reliant Energy, RWE Trading Americas, Orthodontic Centers of America, Shell Oil Company, Southwest Business Corporation and Unilever.
Prior to joining Standard & Poor’s, Mr. Murphy was an Analyst in the Global Corporate Finance Group at Enron Corp. in Houston, Texas. He was involved with the management and valuation of securitization vehicles including the evaluation of multi-advance credit facilities impact to cash and book value. Additionally, he was involved in the negotiation and evaluation of complex structured finance transactions including the securitization of diverse international energy assets.
Mr. Murphy received a Masters in International Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics in London, England. As a scholar, he was awarded the Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship by the Rotary Foundation. He is a graduate from Vanderbilt University where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and Business Administration. He is also Series 7 & 63 Certified.
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