Managing Director
Javier Schiffrin has actively participated in debt restructurings for two decades as a principal investor, investment banker and corporate lawyer.
From 2016 to 2021, Javier was Senior Vice President at the hedge fund Paulson & Co., where he focused on U.S. and European public distressed debt investments as a member of the credit fund, managed the financing component of Paulson’s private sponsor transactions and served as a Paulson nominee on the board of Midas Gold.
Before joining Paulson, Javier was a director on Macquarie’s distressed debt trading desk and an associate in UBS’s restructuring and leveraged finance group, where he advised U.S corporations and sponsors on debt financing transactions, primarily in the context of in- and out-of-court restructurings.
Between 2000 and 2006, Javier worked as a corporate lawyer at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP and a restructuring lawyer at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. At Kirkland & Ellis, Javier advised corporate debtors, lenders and bondholders on some of the largest and most complex restructurings to date, including Calpine, NRG and Solutia.
Javier received a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where he was a James Kent Scholar, and a B.A. with first class honors in History from McGill University. Javier is admitted to the bar in the State of New York.
