Jeff Sands.
Member, Expert Advisory Board
- Office
- New York, NY
- Recognition
- TMA Turnaround of the Year, 2017, 2018, and 2019
A brief on Jeff.
Jeff Sands is a member of Buxton Helmsley’s Expert Advisory Board, where he assists the firm on matters related to companies in financial and operational distress. Over his career, he has worked with business owners, lenders, and private equity sponsors to stabilize mid-market companies, restructure their debt, and, where a sale is the right result, run the process.
Mr. Sands grew up working in his family’s manufacturing business and returned to it as an adult to help grow it, fix it more than once, and eventually exit it. He has specialized in corporate turnarounds and debt restructuring since 2002, across dozens of industries and with a particular focus on distressed industrial companies, and he is known for maximizing value in sales of distressed businesses as going concerns, saving jobs that a liquidation would lose.
The Turnaround Management Association honored Mr. Sands with its Turnaround of the Year Award in three consecutive years: in 2017 for Vermont Aerospace Manufacturing, where the lender recovered in full, unsecured creditors were to be repaid in full over time, and nearly 100 jobs were saved; in 2018 for Canadian Kraft Paper; and in 2019 for Union Metal Industries in Canton, Ohio. He holds the Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP) designation.
He is the author of Corporate Turnaround Artistry: Fix Any Business in 100 Days (John Wiley & Sons, 2020), a guide for owners and chief executives of smaller companies facing financial distress. Mr. Sands divides his time between New York and Vermont.
