Investment Banking Team
John E. Luth
Chairman, President and CEO - Head of Investment Banking
John Luth is the founding partner and chief executive of the Seabury Group. Mr. Luth leads major aviation and aerospace advisory assignments, and has advised on over $40 billion of new aircraft orders and in excess of $30 billion of capital transactions, including approximately $4 billion of new equity issuance.
Most recently, Mr. Luth led an out-of-court restructuring for Frontier Airlines (2011), assisted a major Middle East carrier with respect to NewGen widebody orders (2011), and completed a highly successful NewGen widebody aircraft campaign for Cathay Pacific Airways (in 2010), the later resulting in Cathay ordering 30 firm A350s and six firm 777s. Mr. Luth led similar efforts for Air Canada leading to an order of 60 firm and option 787s and 18/18 firm/option 777s and assisted US Airways on renegotiating billions of new aircraft orders (2010).
Michael B. Cox
Vice Chairman, Seabury Group
Mike Cox joined the Seabury Group as a partner in April 1998. He has over 25 years of airline and aviation-related experience. At Seabury, Mr. Cox has advised numerous airline clients on a variety of projects, including airline treasury, corporate finance, and airline restructuring. Recent engagements have included leading the Seabury team in successfully restructuring the aircraft debt/lease restructuring efforts for the successful reorganization efforts at US Airways, Air Canada and Northwest Airlines. Mr. Cox led the successful out-of-court restructuring of South African Airways resulting in a profitable fiscal year ending March 31, 2008 after losing over 1 billion ZAR the year before. Mr. Cox also advised Frontier Airlines in its Chapter 11 reorganization efforts.
James F. Bohlman
Managing Director, Global Head of Corporate Advisory, Aviation Investment Banking & Restructuring, Co-Head of Americas Consulting
Jim Bohlman joined Seabury in 2011 as Managing Director. He is responsible for the firm’s Corporate Advisory division, Aviation Investment Banking & Restructuring practice and Consulting activities in the Americas. He brings over 20 years of management consulting and investment banking experience in a variety of industries, with a focus on aviation, aerospace and defense. He has restructured transactions exceeding US$7billion in aviation and A&D-related matters and has led numerous Aviation-related capital raise mandates. Additionally, he has led virtually every aspect of turnaround and performance improvement efforts for clients, and has advised sell-side and buy-side M&A clients on deal structuring, target assessment and post-acquisition matters for significant transactions in the aviation, aircraft leasing and A&D sectors.
Lorie R. Beers
Managing Director, Co-head of Global Restructuring and Investment Banking
Lorie R. Beers joined Seabury Group in October 2009 as Managing Director, Investment Banking and Restructuring, with responsibility for Seabury’s middle market and aerospace investment banking practice. While at Seabury, she has been involved in numerous buy- and sell- side M&A engagements, private placements of debt and equity and balance sheet recapitalizations across many industry segments, especially aerospace.
Tim Hammond
Managing Director, Investment Banking, London
Tim Hammond joined Seabury Group in February 2011 as Managing Director, Investment Banking in the London office with focus on aviation, infrastructure and other related areas of transportation. Mr. Hammond is a seasoned industry leader with more than 20 years experience in investment banking and corporate advisory roles within the aviation and infrastructure industries. Prior to joining Seabury, Mr. Hammond was Head of Transport & Infrastructure for Reynolds Partners and executed a variety of transactions including capital raising for business ventures and funds (BA’s subsidiary OpenSkies, $500M for GE’s Regional Airport fund), acquisitions (£2.1B acquisition of High Speed 1, £150M acquisition of Liverpool John Lennon Airport, $100M acquisition of Privatair) as well as advising on numerous strategic projects (BAA/ABI on airport regulation, SkyEurope on fund raising).
David Fowkes
Managing Director
Mr. Fowkes has more than 15 years experience in aircraft and other asset finance, in both bulge bracket and boutique investment banking roles.
David recently re-joined Seabury to focus on aviation and aviation related investment banking and structured finance including, among other things, strategic projects with airlines and airline leasing companies and with structured aircraft financings.
Michael Lypka
Managing Director
Michael Lypka recently joined the Seabury Group with over 20 years of airline financing experience. Previously a partner at Babcock & Brown, he has advised numerous airline, leasing company and aerospace manufacturers on a range of transactions including leveraged leases, securitizations, sale-leasebacks and debt restructurings. His clients included Singapore Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Airbus and Cathay Pacific.
Ginger Hughes
Executive Director & Co-Head Airline Corporate Advisory
Ginger Hughes has over 16 years of global airline experience covering a wide range of matters including several successful airline restructurings, crisis cash management, due diligence, strategic sourcing negotiations, cost reduction programs and mergers & acquisitions advisory. She has a senior role in liquidity management, vendor negotiation and other restructuring issues.
Michael D. Mason
Executive Director & Co-Head Airline Corporate Advisory
Michael Mason joined the Seabury Group LLC as a vice president in May 2000. He has more than 15 years of airline and aviation-related experience. At Seabury, Mr. Mason has advised numerous airline clients on a variety of projects, including treasury, cash management, working capital management, cash forecasting and balance sheet restructuring. Mr. Mason has served in various interim financial executive roles in support of the client's restructuring.
Stephan T. Krastev
Senior Vice President
Stephan Krastev joined Seabury in April 2002. During his tenure at Seabury, Mr. Krastev has structured and executed a broad range of transactions, including restructuring, capital raising and M&A advisory.
Most recently, Mr. Krastev was involved in the highly successful liquidity financing programs for US Airways ($525M) and Air Canada (C$1B) and advised Frontier Airlines in its acquisition by Republic Airways.
Shannon Attari
Vice President
Shannon Attari joined the Seabury Group in 2005. As an investment banker he has executed on a number of transactions, ~$3.5B, including PIPEs, M&A and debt refinancing. Currently, Mr. Attari is involved in capital raises in the aviation, aerospace, maritime, financial services and offshore oil services industry.
Jonathan Montbach
Vice President
Jonathan Montbach joined Seabury Group in December 2009 as Vice President, Investment Banking and Restructuring. Montbach will be part of Seabury’s growing advisory practice which is focused on extending the firm’s capabilities in areas outside of Seabury’s established global leadership position in aviation and aerospace.
Keith McWalter
Senior Advisor, Investment Banking New York
Keith McWalter joined Seabury Group in February 2011 as Senior Advisor, Investment Banking in the New York office . Mr. McWalter is a specialist in arranging and negotiating asset-based financings and financial restructurings for transportation and industrial companies. He was a partner and shareholder in Babcock & Brown, an international financial advisory and asset management firm, where he served as legal counsel and in client management and executive roles for 22 years.
