Mr. Richard Morgner

Richard Morgner is managing director and global co-head of Debt Advisory & Restructuring at Jefferies LLC in New York, where he specializes in middle-market mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, reorganizations, and distressed M&A valuation and financial opinions. He has more than 33 years of investment banking experience, over 15 of them at Jefferies. Mr. Morgner previously spent three years at Miller Buckfire & Co. as a managing director and co-head of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions practice, four years at Chanin Capital Partners as a managing director and head of its M&A Group, and 10 years at Prudential Securities, including as a managing director and head of its M&A Group. He has executed more than 125 advisory transactions, including debt and equity private placements, exchange offers, distressed sales, mergers and acquisitions, exclusive sales, recapitalizations, restructurings, and management and leveraged buyouts. Mr. Morgner has been qualified as a valuation expert in federal court and chairs Jefferies’s Fairness Opinion/Valuation Committee. He has authorized more than 75 financial opinions/valuation reports. Mr. Morgner received his A.B. cum laude in history from Dartmouth College.