Larissa Gotguelf

Larissa Gotguelf is a managing director with FTI Consulting, Inc. in Los Angeles. She has more than 20 years of experience in restructuring, commercial real estate, business strategy and operations consulting. Ms. Gotguelf has provided transaction and financial advisory services in consulting, restructuring and litigation settings to real estate investors, developers, lenders, loan servicers, corporate real estate users, CMBS investors, and receivers and trustees. She also has experience in interim management, real estate leasing and negotiations, acquisition and disposition, site selection, corporate finance, and business strategy and portfolio analysis. Ms. Gotguelf has advised clients in matters involving different property types, including retail, hotel and leisure, land, office, multifamily, healthcare, senior housing and fractional ownership. These assignments have involved financial modeling, market research, debt restructuring, damages analysis, valuation, claims analysis, disposition strategy and liquidation, CMBS transaction, and underwriting review and due diligence. In addition to real estate, Ms. Gotguelf has worked with organizations in investment management, health care, financial services and education. Her clients have included such organizations as Aequitas Receivership, Midland Loan Services, Loma Linda University Medical Center, LNR, ORIX, Bank of America, JPMorganChase, Ambac, Residential Capital, Diablo Grande and Beazer. She has worked with many leading law firms, including Milbank, Jones Day, Morrison & Foerster, Troutman Pepper, Latham & Watkins, Arnold & Porter, Sheppard Mullin, O’Melveny & Myers, and Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, among others. Ms. Gotguelf has been invited to speak on restructuring and real estate industry topics by the Turnaround Management Association, ABI, and several other professional associations and firms. Prior to joining FTI Consulting, she was a senior consultant in the Strategy and Operations practice of Deloitte Consulting. Prior to that, she served as a real estate advisor and a vice president of The Western Group. Ms. Gotguelf received her undergraduate degree in construction engineering from Moscow State Engineering University and her M.B.A. from Carnegie Mellon University.