Tim Coleman is a Partner and Global Chairman of the Restructuring and Special Situations Group at PJT Partners, a public spin-off from The Blackstone Group. Prior to the spin-off, Mr. Coleman worked for 23 years at Blackstone serving as a Senior Managing Director and Head of the Restructuring & Reorganization Group. Mr. Coleman has worked on a variety of restructuring and special situation assignments for companies, municipalities, creditor groups, special committees of corporate boards, corporate parents of troubled companies and acquirers of distressed assets.
The International Financing Review recognized Mr. Coleman’s efforts in the restructurings of Credit-Based Asset Servicing and Securitization LLC (“C-BASS”) and Ford Motor Company by naming them Restructuring of the Year in 2008 and 2009, respectively, by naming Blackstone Global Restructuring Adviser of the Year in 2012 and by naming PJT Global Restructuring Adviser of the Year in 2016. Mr. Coleman was named Global Investment Banker of the Year in 2011 by the Turnaround Atlas Awards. In 2013, he was inducted into the Turnaround Restructuring and Distressed Investing Industry Hall of Fame by the Turnaround Management Association. In 2014, Mr. Coleman received the Turnaround Leadership Award from the M&A Advisor.
Mr. Coleman has been a frequent guest lecturer at Columbia University and NYU Stern Business Schools. He is a member of the The Future Project Board of Directors, the Tina’s Wish Board of Directors, the Board of Leaders of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California and the Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital Council.
Examples of Mr. Coleman’s public assignments include Arch Coal, AT&T and
[email protected], Bear Stearns Asset Management, Cable & Wireless Holdings, C-BASS, Delta Air Lines, Detroit, Energy XXI, FGIC, FLAG Telecom, Ford Motor Company, Genco, Guangdong Enterprises, Halc?n Resources, Kaupthing (Iceland), Los Angeles Dodgers, MBIA (Re: BofA, Detroit and Rescap), Mirant Corp., Mohegan Sun, Philadelphia Energy, Quad/Graphics, R.H. Macy & Co., Roust Trading (Re: CEDC), Travelport, The Weinstein Company, Westinghouse, Williams Communications, Xerox Corporation and XL Capital.
Mr. Coleman received a BA from the University of California at Santa Barbara and an MBA from the University of Southern California.