Ira J. Perlmuter
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Head all direct private equity investing for a very large, sophisticated, international family office. I have completed ten control buyouts of companies, including four in bankruptcy (and beat out three stalking horse bidders), and also acquired a community bank. I serve as Chairman of five of these companies and also as Chairman of the bank's Credit and Board-level Compliance Committees. I am also on the Board of the Bank and its holding company. I have also initiated, negotiated and concluded joint ventures with an off-shore, billionaire family office, and with the $17 billion, BYD group of companies, and with a family office-backed truck manufacturer, etc. In addition, I led the efforts to win multi-billion dollar oil and gas licenses in Cyprus, to acquire an eastern European truck manufacturer, a middle eastern airline, a middle eastern bank, a Mexican maquiladora, a Canadian restaurant chain, a U.S. restaurant chain, a major automotive manufacturer's medium duty truck manufacturing business, a $2 billion real estate portfolio, etc.
I have over $17 billion of complex, U.S. and international, restructuring, turnaround and bankruptcy/distressed M&A experience as a banker, investment banker and as a family office principal in over 50 different industries. Selected as Emerging Private Equity Manager of the Year, 2010