Senior Managing Director
FTI Consulting
Steven Simms is the Co-Leader of the Corporate Finance & Restructuring segment’s New York Metro Region office. Mr. Simms specializes in assisting clients with financial restructurings, mergers, acquisitions, debt and equity financings, strategic planning and business valuation.
A representative list of companies that are part of Mr. Simms’ extensive experience include A&P, Advantica Restaurant Group, AMF Bowling, Bally Total Fitness, BI-LO, Blockbuster, Boston Chicken, Brooks Brothers, Buffets, Caesars Entertainment, California Pizza Kitchen, Calpine, Cengage, Chemtura, Chesapeake Energy, Chuck E Cheese Entertainment, Claim Jumper, Cloister Spring Water Company, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, DiTech, Eagle Food Centers, Energy Future Holdings, Exco Resources, Fazoli’s, Fleming Companies, Fresh & Easy, Friendly’s, Fuddruckers, General Growth Properties, Hawker Beechcraft, Hercules Offshore, iHeart, Interstate Bakeries, Lifecare Holdings, Luby’s Cafeterias, Malden Mills, Millennium Health, MModal, Muzak, Nextel International, Nine West Group, Nutritional Sourcing, Outcome Health, Overseas Shipping Group, Payless, Penn Traffic, Perkins, Pier 1 Imports, Purdue Pharmaceutical, Purestar, Real Mex, Rex Energy, Rock & Republic, Ruby Tuesday’s, Samson Resources, Sears, TopGolf, Tony & Tina Cosmetics, Toys R Us, Washington Mutual, Washington Prime Group, Westmoreland Coal, Winn Dixie, World Kitchen and YUM! Brands.
Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Simms was a Managing Director in the Ernst & Young Corporate Finance practice. Before that, he worked in the Middle Market Banking Division of a New York-based money center bank, providing financing to companies in various industries for acquisitions, recapitalizations, capital expansion and internal growth.
Mr. Simms is a Certified Turnaround Professional and previously held NASD registered Licenses 7, 24 and 63 with Ernst & Young Corporate Finance from 2001 to 2004.
