Alessandro Farsaci

Managing Director
20 years of experience in corporate restructuring, transactions and credit recovery
Specializes in turnaround management, financial restructuring and distressed M&A
Focuses on retail, consumer goods and industrial manufacturing
Alessandro Farsaci | Restructuring & Turnaround
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Alessandro Farsaci is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal and Head of the Swiss Restructuring and Turnaround practice in Zurich. He brings over 20 years of restructuring experience in advising companies, boards and C-level, lenders and investors in special and distressed situations. He focuses on listed and privately owned businesses. 

Mr. Farsaci recently served as financial and economic advisor to the Federal Finance Administration of the Swiss Confederation, designing, structuring and negotiating the Loss Protection Agreement (LPA) of CHF 9 billion related to the CS takeover by UBS. He also advised a listed company on operational, comprehensive, complex financial restructuring involving banks/lenders, and bond- and shareholders. He also advised a Swiss-based, international service company with three business units (CHF 100 million in revenue) in critical liquidity shortfall, doing a diagnostic and high-level business review, elaborating restructuring options, designing and preparing a restructuring concept, and managing negotiations with lenders and shareholders to stabilize the situation, regain trust and secure bridge financing.

Mr. Farsaci was the buy-side restructuring and financial advisor to a PE fund that acquired a financially distressed Swiss-based, family-held company, handling short-term cash flow forecasting of the target company and negotiating with lenders. He also handled turnaround and financial restructuring of a Swiss food company, performing a diagnostic review, advising C-level on improving liquidity and implementing short-term cash flow forecasting, elaborating a restructuring plan, including a mid-term financial model and implementation plan, leading negotiations with lenders and suppliers, implementing a cost accounting model, and reporting to lenders.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Farsaci spent over six years as Co-Head of the restructuring team at KPMG in Switzerland. Previously, he was part of the restructuring team of EY in Switzerland. After his three-year bank apprenticeship at UBS (earning top rank of his year) he worked in the bank's credit recovery department. 

Mr. Farsaci earned a bachelor's in business administration and management (accounting and controlling focus). He is a Board member of the Swiss Turnaround Association and a regular member of the Swiss Association for Debt Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law. A Chartered Financial Analyst of the CFA Institute, Mr. Farsaci is fluent in German, English, Italian and French.

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