Brian Fox

Managing Director
Leads A&M's turnaround and restructuring efforts in the East Region 
30+ years of experience in financial advisory, operational improvement and interim management
Focuses on operating and financial restructurings both in and out of bankruptcy
New York
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Brian J. Fox is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal North American Commercial Restructuring Practice (NACR) in New York. As co-head of the practice’s East region, he provides a full range of financial advisory, operational improvement and interim management services in restructurings and other special situations, both in court and outside of bankruptcy.

Mr. Fox has worked with companies to develop operational improvement programs around customer and product profitability, working capital reduction and expense reduction. He has assisted in the review and development of cash flow and liquidity forecasts, strategic and operating plans capital structure alternatives and the development, negotiation and implementation of restructuring transactions.

Some of Mr. Fox’s notable engagements include acting as Chief Restructuring Officer (CRO) and interim Chief Financial Officer to GTT Communications, Inc. in its financial restructuring; advising a global medical services company in its operational and financial restructuring; advising a $850 million food additives business on a financial and operational restructuring; advising a $1.4 billion manufacturer of building products on an out-of-court exchange; and advising a $500 million apparel company in an out-of-court restructuring of its credit facilities.

Previously, Mr. Fox advised Performance Sporting Goods on its sale through Section 363; advised Dean Foods, a $2 billion dairy processor, on a sale of essentially all its assets; advised Rockport Shoes in its restructuring through a Chapter 11 sale process; and acted as CRO to Gibson Brands in its financial restructuring

Mr. Fox earned a BBA in accounting from the Hofstra University and an MBA in finance from Fordham University. He is a CPA in New York and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Turnaround Management Association and the American Bankruptcy Institute. A frequent panelist on restructuring topics, Mr. Fox was an author of The Chief Restructuring Officers’ Guide to Bankruptcy.

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