Mark Laber

Mark Laber is a managing director in the Corporate Finance practice and serves as BRG’s New York City office director. He specializes in providing advisory services to lender constituents across industries and the capital structure focused on maximizing recoveries and value.

Mark Laber has over two decades of experience advising companies and their stakeholders on turnaround and restructuring matters. Specifically, he helps steering committees, lender groups, and official creditor committees of distressed companies develop solutions to their most critical problems with the goal of maximizing recoveries.

Mr. Laber has a deep bench of experience representing lenders in private credit, where he helps facilitate relationships between the firm and private capital institutions. He supports clients with business plan diligence, liquidity and cash-flow scenario analysis, covenant review, and credit agreement and amendment review.

Before joining BRG, Mr. Laber spent thirteen years at FTI Consulting in various roles, most recently as a senior managing director in the Turnaround & Restructuring practice, where he led high-profile restructuring assignments across industries. He also served for a year as the chief operating officer of FTI’s North American Corporate Finance and Restructuring practice (~850 professionals).

Mr. Laber has helped lead engagements that received “Turnaround of the Year” honors from M&A Advisor and won the “Emerging Leaders” award from the same publication. He has published commentaries including: “How the Fitness Industry Can Recover from COVID-19” (September 2021); “Getting Back in Shape: Fitness Industry’s Path to COVID Recovery in 2021” (August 2021); “Covenant-Lite Leveraged Loans: Time-Tested or Time Bomb?” (October 2017); “Default Surge on Hold as Leveraged Credit Markets Refuse to Buckle” (January 2019); and “2019 and 2020 U.S. Loan Market Survey” (Spring 2019 and 2020).

Mr. Laber is a founding board member of Geeks Rule, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established to eliminate racial, gender, and socioeconomic gaps that exist in STEM through programming at underserved secondary schools.

Previously, Mr. Laber spent five years at PricewaterhouseCoopers, serving in its Audit practice and Transaction Services Valuation and Accounting Advisory group.