Mr. Reardon has more than 25 years of expertise in directing healthy and distressed M&A, operational and financial restructurings, debt and equity capital financing, and real estate development. In summary, he is:

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• a nationally recognized restructuring expert with decades of experience leading special situations, restructuring, and distressed M&A engagements that have included recipients of six M&A Advisor, Global M&A Advisor, and Turnaround Atlas Awards, three of them in 2022.

• A Global M&A Network Top 25 Restructuring Financial Advisor (2022).

• an experienced public and private board member.

• the founder and Senior Managing Director of Asgaard Capital LLC.

• Audit Committee Qualified.

• a Yale Law-educated and NY-trained attorney.

 

Mr. Readon’s extensive experience includes conceptualizing and executing complex commercial, legal, and financial transactions with multiple stakeholders and changes in control and capital structures. He has advised public and private companies across a broad spectrum of industries including mining, energy, defense, financial services, hospitality, manufacturing, technology, telecommunications, real estate, and retail. Charlie is particularly adept at helping craft and sell storied deals where the future that investors buy is much more robust than recent financial performance would suggest, and in the process completing transactions at multiples of the firm’s value that was expected when he was engaged. His M&A experience spans both healthy and distressed companies.

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Prior to founding Asgaard Capital, Mr. Reardon was a Partner in the investment banking division of Carl Marks & Co., the middle-market merchant bank headquartered in New York. Before that, he was a Director with Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin and a member of their globally recognized Financial Restructuring Group, and led Houlihan’s Distressed M&A Practice in the mid-Atlantic region. Charlie began his career on Wall Street with the legal firm of Lane & Mittendorf (now Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf) specializing in corporate finance, general corporate and real estate law.

 

Recognition for Mr. Reardon’s transactions includes the 2022 Turnaround/Transaction of the Year (Small Company, Klausner) from the Turnaround Management Association, and Deal of the Year Turnaround Atlas Award for Cross Border Situations, Klausner KL2, also in 2022; Retail Products & Services Turnaround of the Year (Turnaround Atlas Awards); Professional Services Deal of the Year (M&A Advisor); and Middle Market Financing of the Year (M&A Advisor). In 2022, he was named a Top 25 Restructuring Financial Advisor by Global M&A Network. An experienced industry speaker and expert panelist, Charlie has held Series 7, Series 79 and Series 63 licenses with FINRA. He was also a longtime member of both the Turnaround Management Association and the American Bankruptcy Institute and has served on the boards of a number of public and privately held companies. Mr. Reardon holds a B.A. with highest distinction from the University of Virginia, membership in Phi Beta Kappa, and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

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