Senior Managing Director
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Stephan Chischportich is a senior managing director and head of the firm’s EMEA Restructuring group. Mr. Chischportich has advised companies and their stakeholders in many of the most complex debt financing and financial restructuring transactions globally. He has represented both debtors and creditors across a number of jurisdictions and has significant experience in debt financing, liability management, restructuring and distressed M&A. Select high-profile transactions include advising ZIM Integrated Shipping Services in connection with its financial restructuring and charter-hire renegotiations; Ocean Rig in connection with its financial restructuring and COMI shift to the Cayman Islands; senior lenders to Dubai World on an amend and extend transaction involving over $15 billion of debt obligations; and senior lenders to Travelodge in connection with a debt restructuring and CVA process. Other notable client engagements include acting for Akerys, Clipper, Infogrames, Inspired Gaming Group, Groupe Novasep, Pacific Drilling, Park Plaza Hotels and Uni-Invest, as well as acting for the creditors of Alliance Medical Group, Borr Drilling, CGG, CMA CGM, Consolis, Dolphin Drilling Holdings, Intu, Floatel, Mainsail II, Monier Group, Nordic Aviation Capital, P.A. Resources, Polestar, and Teksid Aluminium. Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Chischportich was a vice president in Houlihan Lokey’s financial restructuring group, working in both the London and Paris offices. Mr. Chischportich has a degree in business (joint honours – economics and finance) from McGill University in Canada.