Mr. Motulsky has over 30 years of experience in the areas of both healthy and distressed M&A, operational and financial restructurings, and debt and equity capital financing.  He was a Partner and Managing Director at Lazard for 16 years, including Global Head of Consumer & Retail, and was a Managing Director at Moelis & Company for 4 years. Mr. Motulsky specializes in complex transactions and has served as trusted advisor to the C-suite, owners, entrepreneurs, boards, special committees and investment firms, with strong relationships and reach across large-cap multinationals, mid-caps and growth companies. His experience spans a broad range of industries, with depth in consumer and retail, and includes board of directors experience at public and private companies, as well as non-profit institutions.

 

Most recently, Mr. Motulsky steered AeroFarms through a 2023-2024 Chapter 11 reorganization as its investment banker. Prior to that, he acted as sole director of Klausner Lumber II, a complex and multiple award-winning cross-border Chapter 11 case, and as a board member for Rue21, where he led the company’s successful out-of-court capital restructuring and reorganization.

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Mr. Motulsky began his career with Salomon Brothers, and then as a partner in Tanner & Co., which he founded with Harold Tanner, former head of Investment Banking at Salomon Brothers.

 

Mr. Motulsky holds a B.S. with Distinction in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Stanford University. He is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Trustee of The New School University.

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Select M&A transactions include:

• Spectrum Brands’ $10bn merger with HRG

• Revlon’s acquisition of Elizabeth Arden

• Edgewell’s acquisition of Jack Black

• Brown Jordan’s sale to Littlejohn & Co.

• Johnson Family and CDR’s $4bn sale of Diversey to Sealed Air

• Oribe’s sale to Kao

• L’Oréal’s acquisitions of Urban Decay, Clarisonic, BeautyAlliance, and Purology

• Unilever’s sales of its Skippy peanut butter and its N.A. Frozen Meals businesses

• Callaway Golf in multiple M&A and structured convertible financing assignments

• Bon-Ton Stores’ acquisitions of Saks Northern Department Stores Group and Elder-Beerman

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Select restructuring transactions include:

• Aerofarms’, a vertical farming company, in its reorganization via Ch. 11

• Klausner Lumber II in its Ch. 11 and 363 sale

• Rue21 in its out-of-court recapitalization and reorganization

• Eddie Bauer in its Ch. 11 and 363 sale

• Spectrum Brands it its recapitalization via Ch. 11

• True Temper Sports in its pre-packaged recapitalization via Ch. 11

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