Mackenzie Shea

Mackenzie Shea is a Managing Director in BRG’s Corporate Finance practice and concentrates on distressed transactions, special situations, and restructuring matters. She has almost twenty years of experience in the industry, primarily providing advice to growing, transitioning, and distressed companies and their stakeholders on a variety of unique projects.

Ms. Shea specializes in financial advisory and performance improvement with significant expertise advising global, publicly-traded companies. Her services include implementing profit improvement plans, identifying strategic alternatives, leading processes to sell businesses or underperforming assets, and securing financing.

Ms. Shea has served as an independent director and acted in interim executive roles, such as chief restructuring officer, and has overseen the execution of mergers, acquisitions, financings, and other transactions. Her experience covers the full spectrum of asset dispositions from going-concern transactions to liquidations. Ms. Shea is particularly experienced in distressed sales and has counseled buyers, sellers, and creditor constituents in all facets of the sale process, including advising on deal structures and bidding strategies and conducting or participating in dozens of competitive processes for her clients.

Before joining BRG, Ms. Shea was lead transaction counsel for a global investment firm. She served as “first chair” deal lawyer responsible for structuring, negotiating, documenting, and executing hundreds of millions of dollars of transactions across sectors including retail, consumer products, industrial, brands, and real estate. She led complex transactions that covered a wide spectrum of restructuring situations and solutions, including acquisitions, workouts, financings, and liquidations. When the investment firm made opportunistic acquisitions of distressed companies, she managed turnaround efforts, assisted existing management, served as an officer, and advised the board on strategic alternatives.

Ms. Shea is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy and has received numerous accolades for her work, including the Secured Finance Network’s “40 Under 40 Award” (2018) and the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges’ “Next Gen Award: Top 40 Up-and-Coming Bankruptcy Lawyers” (2012). She was nationally ranked in Chambers USA (2015, 2016), The Best Lawyers in America (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020), and Super Lawyer: Rising Star (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016) in the area of bankruptcy and restructuring. She has spoken at many industry conferences, including for the Turnaround Management Association, American Bankruptcy Institute, and International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation.