Mark Shapiro

Mr. Shapiro joined GlassRatner in 2016 to help found the firm’s Dallas office. He has more than 25 years of strategy, finance and turnaround experience gained from holding corporate management roles and from advising companies in need. Mr. Shapiro’s unique combination of corporate financial management and turnaround skills proves valuable to companies executing a turnaround, developing a plan of reorganization or obtaining capital. Additionally, he is one of the leaders of the firm’s Due Diligence practice with significant transactional experience helping companies diligence, execute and integrate corporate transactions. Mr. Shapiro is well regarded for his ability to realize the financial and operational improvements necessary to enhance stakeholder value.

Mr. Shapiro has functioned in executive leadership, interim management and advisory positions for publicly held, privately owned and equity sponsored entities – both domestic and international — with revenues ranging from $15 million to $15 billion. Industries served include healthcare, retail, distribution, commercial and financial services, metals and manufacturing, consumer products and telecommunications.  He has also helped a number of founder-led companies (public and private) through unique, transitional situations.

Mr. Shapiro has restructured and successfully managed companies through a number of transitional, troubled and distressed situations. His methodology melds hands-on strategic planning and implementation with collaborative stakeholder interaction and he is highly skilled at managing, through the cultural changes that affect companies in transition

Mr. Shapiro has advised on corporate acquisitions and sales of entities with values ranging from $10 million to $1 billion in conjunction with stock offerings, private placements and §363 auctions. He has negotiated cash-flow-based and asset-based lines of credit, managed complex debt re-capitalizations, and secured debtor in possession facilities in addition to real estate and equipment financing.

Mr. Shapiro received his B.S. in Accounting from The Ohio State University and began his career with Ernst & Young in New York. He is a Certified Public Accountant.