2019 Harvey R. Miller Outstanding Achievement Award for Service to the Restructuring Industry
The 2019 annual Harvey R. Miller Award recipient is Tim Coleman, Partner and Global Chairman of the Restructuring and Special Situations Group at PJT Partners.
The award is presented by last year's winner, Edward I. Altman, Max L. Heine Professor of Finance, Emeritus at the Stern School of Business, New York University.
The award is presented by last year's winner, Edward I. Altman, Max L. Heine Professor of Finance, Emeritus at the Stern School of Business, New York University.
Tim Coleman Partner and Global Chairman of the Restructuring and Special Situations Group at PJT Partners Prior to the spinoff, Mr. Coleman worked for twenty-three years at Blackstone serving as a Senior Managing Director and Head of the Restructuring & Reorganization Group. Mr. Coleman has worked on a variety of restructuring and special situation assignments for companies, municipalities, creditor groups, special committees of corporate boards, corporate parents of troubled companies and acquirers of distressed assets. Tim has been widely recognized for excellence in his field. Most recently he received the Leadership Award from the Turnaround Atlas Awards (2017), was given the Turnaround Leadership Award from The M&A Advisor (2014), was inducted into the Turnaround Restructuring and Distressed Investing Industry Hall of Fame by the Turnaround Management Association (2013) and was named Global Investment Banker of the Year by the Turnaround Atlas Awards (2011). In addition to his personal awards, PJT was most recently awarded the 2016 IFR Global Restructuring Advisor of the Year and the 2016 Turnaround Atlas Award as Global Restructuring Investment Bank of the Year. A sampling of Mr. Coleman’s most notable public assignments include: Arch Coal, AMBAC, Bear Stearns Asset Management, Cable & Wireless Holdings, C-BASS, Delta Air Lines, Delta (Re: Pinnacle Airlines), Energy XXI, Financial Guaranty Insurance Company, Ford Motor Company, Genco, Greece, Guangdong Enterprises, Halcon, Kaupthing (Iceland), Los Angeles Dodgers, MBIA (Re: BofA, Detroit, Puerto Rico and Rescap), Mirant Corp., Mohegan Sun, Roust Trading (Re: CEDC), Travelport, Venoco, The Weinstein Company, Westinghouse, Williams Communications, Xerox Corporation and XL Capital. Mr. Coleman has actively supported a number of nonprofit organizations, currently serving as a member of the Board of Leaders of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, the Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital Council and the Tina’s Wish Board of Directors. Tim has been a frequent guest lecturer at Columbia University and the NYU Stern School of Business. He received a BA from the University of California at Santa Barbara and an MBA from the University of Southern California. |
Edward I. Altman Max L. Heine Professor of Finance Emeritus at New York University, Stern School of Business and Director of the Credit and Fixed Income Research Program at the NYU Salomon Center Edward I. Altman is the Max L. Heine Professor of Finance, Emeritus at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He is the Director of Research in Credit and Debt Markets at the NYU Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions. Prior to serving in his present position, Professor Altman chaired the Stern School's MBA Program for 12 years. Dr. Altman was named to the Max L. Heine endowed professorship at Stern in 1988 and his Emeritus status in September 2015. Dr. Altman's primary areas of research include bankruptcy analysis and prediction, credit and lending policies, risk management and regulation in banking, corporate finance and capital markets. He has been a consultant to several government agencies, major financial and accounting institutions and industrial companies and has lectured to executives in North America, South America, Europe, Australia-New Zealand, Asia and Africa. He has testified before the U.S. Congress, the New York State Senate and several other government and regulatory organizations and is a Director and a member of the Advisory Board of a number of corporate, publishing, academic and financial institutions, including Paulson & Co., Franklin Mutual Advisors, Equinox Capital, Van Eck (Market Vectors), S&P Capital IQ, and a senior advisor to Classis Capital in Milan, Italy. |
Previous Recipients of the Harvey R. Miller Award
- 2001 Harvey Miller
- 2002 Steve Cooper, Zolfo Cooper
- 2003 Wilbur Ross, WL Ross & Co
- 2004 Jay Alix, AlixPartners
- 2005 Arthur Newman, The Blackstone Group
- 2006 Tony Alvarez II, Alvarez & Marsal
- 2007 David Tepper, Appaloosa Management
- 2008 William C. Repko, Evercore Partners
- 2009 Al Koch, AlixPartners
- 2010 Barry Ridings, Lazard
- 2011 David Resnick, Rothschild
- 2012 Jay Goldin, Goldin Associates
- 2013 Marty Whitman, Third Avenue Management
- 2014 Jim Millstein, Millstein & Co.
- 2015 Ken Buckfire, Miller Buckfire & Co.
- 2016 Jack Butler, BirchLake Holdings
- 2017 Marc Lasry, Avenue Capital Group
- 2018 Edward I. Altman, New York University's Stern School of Business
