About Max

Max Holmes has over 40 years of enjoy as a portfolio supervisor, research analyst, board member, legal professional, NYU Professor and expert witness.
Since 1993, Max Holmes has been an Adjunct Professor of Finance at the Stern Graduate School of Business at New York University, teaching Bankruptcy and Reorganization.
Max Holmes has been the Chief Investment Officer / Lead Portfolio Manager for 2 large hedge finances ($2.7 billion and $five.four billion of top AUM) as well as an coverage employer portfolio and a mutual fund portfolio. The funds invested in credit score, capital shape arbitrage, distressed debt, rescue finance, direct lending, strong point finance, occasion stocks and unique situations securities, which include lengthy and short positions. The budget invested throughout the capital structure: bank debt, DIP loans, 2nd lien debt, secured and unsecured bonds, floating rate and glued fee notes, trade claims, desired inventory, common inventory, placed and get in touch with options and credit default swaps (CDS). Investments were in a variety of businesses, public and private, which includes startups, challenge capital, infrastructure, leveraged buyouts, private fairness, turnarounds, restructurings, bankruptcies and liquidations. Direct lending turned into performed via a Business Development Company (BDC) ($1 billion belongings beneath management). Mr. Holmes has studying thousands of organizations and investment possibilities.
Mr. Holmes has been the Chair and CEO of a life, fitness and annuity insurer and reinsurer.
In February 2024, Mr. Holmes become appointed by way of the Creditors Committee of Celsius Network LLC, a large cryptocurrency platform, as an impartial director of Ionic Digital Inc., a bitcoin mining company.
Mr. Holmes worked in funding banking, research, buying and selling and capital markets at Drexel Burnham Lambert, Salomon Brothers, NatWest Markets and Royal Bank of Canada. Since 2015, Max Holmes has been a Senior Advisor to American Industrial Partners LLC, a personal fairness firm with $sixteen b of AUM.