Russell Perry is a Senior Managing Director at Ankura. He has nearly twenty years of experience across complex financial situations involving distressed companies, with an emphasis on the US healthcare market. Mr. Perry’s restructuring advisory experience includes interim management and various leadership roles across financial, operational and strategic situations. He is based in Dallas.

His current and former clients include private and public companies, not-for-profit institutions, equity sponsors, secured and unsecured creditors, bond insurance companies, bond holders, municipalities and other related parties.

Mr. Perry’s notable reorganization advisory experience includes:

• Confidential Skilled Nursing Facility Operator – retained as Co-Strategic Restructuring Advisor of a highly-distressed skilled nursing, assisted living, and ancillary company operator pursing an out-of-court restructuring.

• TridentCare – retained as restructuring advisor prior to and during Chapter 11 process providing comprehensive services focused on board / executive advisory, liquidity support, business plan development, qui tam settlement, data breach response, and Chapter 11 preparation and administration.

• Senior Quality Lifestyles Corporation – retained as restructuring advisor to four highly-distressed CCRC communities with over $600 million of municipal bond debt, assisting with liquidity management, business plan development, and strategic alternative evaluation.

• Signature HealthCARE – retained as restructuring advisor to $1.1 billion Skilled Nursing operator providing a broad spectrum of restructuring services, including business plan development and stakeholder negotiation resulting in a consensual  global out-of-court restructuring.

• Verity Health System – retained as restructuring advisor in preparation of a potential Chapter 11 filing, ultimately avoiding bankruptcy through a $100M private equity liquidity infusion and debt restructuring; followed by retention as Interim VP Treasurer to assist management navigate through a post-transaction operational and financial turnaround.

Mr. Perry was the recipient of The American Bankruptcy Institute's 2019 40 Under 40 Emerging Leaders and The M&A Advisor’s 2016 40 Under 40 Emerging Leaders Award. Further, Mr. Perry received several prestigious awards for his past engagement success. The Signature HealthCARE matter was awarded 2018 Healthcare Restructuring of the Year (over $500M) – M&A Advisor, the Dune Energy matter was awarded Energy & Services Restructuring of the Year – 2016 Atlas Turnaround Awards, and the Velti, Inc. matter was awarded 2014 Restructuring Deal of the Year (under $1 billion) – M&A Advisor.

EDUCATION

• MBA, Mays Business School at Texas A&M University

• BS, Texas A&M University

CERTIFICATIONS

• CFA® charterholder

• Certified Insolvency and
  Restructuring Advisor (CIRA)

• FINRA Series 7, 65, 63 (inactive)

AFFILIATIONS

• Execute Board Member – Von’s Vision of DFW

• DFW Chapter of the Turnaround Management Association

• American Bankruptcy Institute

• CFA Institute, DFW Society

• Association of Insolvency & Restructuring Advisors

• Former Board Member, Treasurer, DFW Association of Young Bankruptcy Lawyers

• Former Business Division Liaison of the Young Lawyers Committee of the Bankruptcy Law Section of the State Bar of Texas