A Leading Resource for Restructuring
Miller Buckfire is Stifel’s specialist boutique dedicated to providing financial restructuring services to companies, governments, and creditors facing complex situations. Since 1995, we have been one of the leading firms in this field, and have provided objective, strategic advice to clients including Faraday Future, General Growth Properties, the City of Detroit, the National Bank of Ukraine, the creditors of Caesars Entertainment, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico/COFINA, Lehman Brothers, and Calpine among many others. As pioneers in the space, Miller Buckfire is credited as having developed many widely used techniques in restructuring and reorganization.
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Investment Banker to Lazydays
Specialty Distribution | November 2024
Advisor to Buyer
Business Services | July 2024
Sole Placement Agent
Business Services | July 2024
$ 121,600,000
Advisor to Seller
Medtech | April 2024
$ 94,300,000
Advisor to Sientra
Medtech | April 2024
$ 199,000,000
Investment Banker for the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors
Vehicle Electrification | March 2024
Financial Advisor
Digital Assets | February 2024
$ 300,000,000
Advisor to Selina Hospitality PLC
Real Estate | January 2024
Advisor to Buyer
Vehicle Electrification | October 2023
Advisor to Seller
Consumer Products | August 2023
$ 315,000,000
Investment Banker for Checkers
Restaurants | June 2023
$ 200,000,000
Investment Banker for Tricida
Biopharma | June 2023
$ 104,500,000
Sole Placement Agent
Medtech | July 2022
$ 55,300,000
Sole Bookrunner
Medtech | July 2022
$ 246,000,000
Investment Banker for Techniplas, LLC
Restructuring | June 2021
Advisor to The Collected Group
Consumer Products | May 2021
$ 17,500,000,000
Advisor to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
Restructuring | April 2021
$ 384,000,000
Investment Banker for Sundance Energy Inc.
Restructuring | April 2021
$ 320,000,000
Investment Banker for Checkers
Restructuring | December 2020
$ 91,000,000
Advisor to Tuesday Morning Company
Restructuring | December 2020
$ 3,321,000,000
Advisor to Kensington
Restructuring | November 2020
Investment Banker for Corner Bakery
Restructuring | October 2020
$ 903,000,000
Advisor to the UCC of GNC Holdings
Restructuring | October 2020
$ 933,000,000
Investment Banker for North American Lifting Holdings Inc.
Restructuring | October 2020
$ 492,000,000
Advisor to Ultrapetrol
Maritime Services | March 2017