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Role
Vinod Chandiramani is Partner and Head of Capital Advisory which comprises Solomon’s Financing Advisory and Capital Transformation & Debt Advisory groups. Vinod advises clients on financings, recapitalizations, liability management and capital transformations which may include comprehensive balance sheet restructuring. He joined the firm in 2024.
Experience
Vinod has nearly 20 years of experience including advisory and principal investment activities focused on financing transitional capital or special situation opportunities, liability management, restructuring, divestitures and acquisitions. Most recently, Vinod worked at Greenhill & Co., serving as a Managing Director in the Financing Advisory and Restructuring group which he joined in 2018 as a part of a strategic investment in that advisory expertise. Prior to Greenhill, Vinod was an investment professional at Marblegate Asset Management and Octagon Credit Opportunities, and an investment banker in the Debt Advisory and Restructuring Group at Rothschild & Co and Acquisition Finance Group at Bear Stearns & Co. Vinod has represented companies, creditors, investors or participated in transactions involving more than $400 billion in liabilities or invested capital across an array of sectors.
SELECT FINANCING ADVISORY AND CAPITAL TRANSFORMATION TRANSACTIONS INCLUDE:
- Alert 360 Ad Hoc Term Loan group on the $430mm recapitalization
- Ancora Education’s acquisition of certain assets of Delta Career Education’s
- Bear Sterns & Co recapitalization and sale to JP Morgan
- Centerline on its sale to Hunt Capital Partners
- Clover Technologies Ad Hoc Term Loan group on the $650mm Chapter 11 restructuring and pre-Chapter 11 sale of print cartridge segment
- CNG Holdings noteholder on $150mm term loan commitment and debt repurchase
- CSM Bakery Ad Hoc Crossholder group on the $750mm amendment and extension transaction
- Digicel Ad Hoc Crossholder group on the $4.8bn recapitalization and $120mm preferred equity issuance implemented via Bermuda Scheme of Arrangements
- GMX Resources on its $200mm debt-for-debt exchange offer
- iQor Ad Hoc Crossholder group on the $875mm Chapter 11 restructuring
- MRO Holdings on its $650mm term loan issuance
- My Alarm Center on its $240mm acquisition of Alert 360
- NPC International on its $800mm asset sales implied via Section 363
- Skillsoft Ad Hoc Crossholder group on the $2.1bn Chapter 11 restructuring and $110mm new money term loan issuance
- Speedcast Ad Hoc First Lien lender group on the $725mm Chapter 11 restructuring and $180mm DIP facility
- Universal Fiber on its $250mm credit facility issuance
- Voyager Aviation Holdings on its Chapter 11 restructuring and $800mm sale of select aircraft assets to Azorra
- YRC Worldwide on its $1.5bn recapitalization which included $470mm debt-for-equity exchange
Education
Vinod holds an MBA, with Beta Gamma Sigma honors, from the New York University Stern School of Business and a BA from the University of Michigan.