Raoul Nowitz has over 25 years of professional experience and serves as Senior Managing Director of Restructuring and Distressed Asset Support Services. He focuses on providing restructuring advisory and related asset disposition planning, execution and investment banking services to companies in a variety of industries. Mr. Nowitz’s expertise includes astute analytics, detailed assessment and creative resolution planning and implementation support to address complex challenges facing the firm’s clients. Mr. Nowitz offers a unique balance and depth of experience in financial advisory, investment banking, fiduciary, and operating rehabilitation capacities, having supported numerous mandates in developing and executing restructuring initiatives to improve operations, profitability, and liquidity; performing analyses leading to capital restructurings; preparing liquidity forecasts; preparing and assessing complex financial projections and business plans; executing proper positioning and diligence of merger and acquisition strategies; and facilitating capital raisings on behalf of clients.
Prior to joining SOLIC, Mr. Nowitz was a Director with Navigant Capital Advisors. He previously served in a variety of senior professional roles at Macquarie Capital, Giuliani Capital Advisors and Ernst & Young Corporate Finance (both predecessor firms of Macquarie Capital), as well as an associate at Grant Thornton International’s Accounting, Audit & Tax Division.
Mr. Nowitz received his Masters of Business Administration from the Goizueta Business School of Emory University, where he qualified Beta Gamma Sigma recognition for Honors achievement in business study, and received his Bachelor of Commerce and Postgraduate Bachelor of Accounting from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He is a Chartered Accountant (South Africa), is FINRA Series 7 and 63 licensed, and received his Certified Insolvency & Restructuring Advisor (CIRA) and Certification in Distressed Business Valuation (CDBV) designations.