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Bill Partridge
Bill Partridge, a Managing Director at SierraConstellation Partners, has over 25 years of corporate finance, restructuring and capital markets expertise, across multiple industries including technology, biotech, media, energy and construction. Since joining SCP, Bill has worked closely with management teams, boards of directors, and stakeholders through many complex situations, leading them to successful results.
Prior to SCP, Bill spent several years as an interim executive and turnaround consultant taking on many unique and challenging engagements for private companies throughout the U.S.
Bill’s experience also includes leadership roles in private equity, banking, and as management at several operating businesses including Suntech, where he worked on its successful restructuring. His private equity and banking experience includes JP Morgan Partners, Credit Suisse and ABN AMRO Bank.
Bill’s work has yielded positive outcomes and earned him several recent industry awards:
- In 2022, Bill was recognized in Global M&A Network’s 9th annual list of Top 100 Restructuring Professionals.
- In 2022, Bill won the 14th Annual Turnaround Atlas Awards under the category of Private Equity Acquisition Deal of the Year.
- In 2021, Bill won the 15th Annual M&A Advisor Turnaround Award under the category of ‘Information Technology Deal of the Year’ for his work with Wave Computing.
Bill received a BBA in Finance from the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.
Notable Assignments
- Financial advisor to the board of Embark Technology, Inc, a publicly traded autonomous trucking software company sold to Applied Intuition.
- Financial advisor to board and CEO team leader for IT services and solutions provider based in Canada and US.
- Financial advisor to board of a data center and fiber to the home outsourced service provider.
- Financial advisor to board and Trustee to Debtor in Chapter 11 of publicly traded bio-pharma company, Zosano Pharma Inc.
- Financial advisor in sale of private equity backed healthcare AI driven SaaS provider JVION to health analytics company, Lightbeam.
- Financial advisor to Weldmac, a steel fabrication company, in its successful sale to TriMas (NASDAQ: TRS).
- CRO team leader for business services company, Metco, in accelerated private sale process.
- CRO team leader for Wave Computing, Inc. Chapter 11 reorganization. Debtor is a Silicon Valley based fabless semiconductor and AI technology company that owns MIPS IP core technology. Successfully orchestrated a plan of reorganization that provided liquidity for new product growth, while satisfying allowed creditor claims.
- As interim CFO at a private B-corporation, improved liquidity through refinancing and the securitization of $40 million capital lease financings funded by a consortium of family offices and non-bank lenders.
- Served as interim CFO at renewable energy company during refinancing and entry into foreign market. Bill led the expansion of the finance and accounting departments and successfully structured and raised corporate capital and off-balance-sheet project financing.
- Financial advisor to rebar fabrication and construction company.
- Financial advisor to stakeholders in a discount grocery store chain.
- Financial advisor to board of a data center and fiber to the home outsourced service provider.
- Represented debtor in restructuring of $2 billion multinational manufacturing company with headquarters in China.
- Prior member of general partnership managing $360 million portfolio of private equity investments in technology companies.
Awards
- 10th Annual Distinction in Dealmaking List, Top 100 Restructuring Professionals Category
- 14th Annual Turnaround Atlas Awards, Private Equity Acq Deal of the Year (Middle-Markets Segments) - Atar Capital acquires assets of Metco Landscape
- 15th Annual Turnaround Awards, Information Technology Deal of the Year - Restructuring of Wave Computing, Inc.