Teresa C. Kohl

Teresa C. Kohl is a managing director for SSG Capital Advisors, LLC in West Conshohocken, Pa., and is responsible for originating and leading investment banking transactions. She has completed more than 200 restructuring matters, including refinancing and sale transactions for middle-market companies in bankruptcy proceedings and out-of-court workouts. Prior to her transition to investment banking, Ms. Kohl led financial and operational restructuring engagements for boutique advisory firms. Her past clients include publicly traded, privately held, private-equity sponsored and family-owned companies in the health care, retail, manufacturing, building products and financial services industries. Ms. Kohl is a frequent speaker on financial and operational restructuring issues, bankruptcy, and special-situation transactions, as well as a contributing author to the Norton Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice. She is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, and she has served on ABI’s Board of Directors and in leadership positions of the Turnaround Management Association (TMA Global), for which she was the first woman to lead TMA’s largest global chapter (New York City) as president and co-founded TMA Global’s Network of Women. She also is the immediate past board chair of Living Beyond Breast Cancer, a national nonprofit that connects people with trusted breast cancer information and a community of support. Ms.Kohl is a member of the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors, INSOL International, the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation and The Forum of Executive Women. She serves on the steering committee of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Bankruptcy Conference, and as a mentor for ABI’s Diversity and Inclusion Working Group Mentoring Program. Ms. Kohl was inducted into the M&A Advisor Hall of Fame in 2024 and has received numerous awards, including the 2024 M&A Advisor Leadership Award, the TMA NOW (Network of Women) – Philadelphia/Wilmington Chapter first annual Ladder Award (2024), the Global M&A Network’s SHE for SHE Leader Award, the Top Restructuring Investment Banker (2022), The M&A Advisor’s Distressed M&A Dealmaker of the Year Award (2021 and 2019) and TMA Global’s Outstanding Individual Contribution Award (2017). In addition, she was named a U.S.A. Top Women Dealmaker by the Global M&A Network (2019). Ms. Kohl received her B.S. from Villanova University School of Business.