Zachary Nemes
Zachary Nemes is the Founder and Managing Partner of Lohem Partners, a Chicago-based advisory firm providing workout services to lenders and the companies they finance in the middle market and lower middle market. Mr. Nemes has spent his career investing in special situations and founded Lohem Partners to provide clients with the balance sheet restructuring, operational turnaround, and fiduciary services they need to navigate through challenged investments.
Mr. Nemes has a track record over ~20 years of converting deeply distressed positions into multiple-on-invested-capital outcomes. His experience spans consumer, retail, business services, industrial, and litigation finance companies. Mr. Nemes has led highly complex restructurings ranging from $25 million to $1 billion in senior capital, balancing hostile stakeholders and distressed businesses to provide practical solutions for a range of clients and limited partners. Mr. Nemes has managed investments across North America and Europe in both out-of-court situations, including equity pledge exercising, Article 9 dispositions, and consensual restructurings, as well as U.S. Bankruptcy transactions, including debtor-in-possession financings, plans of reorganization, and §363 sales. Mr. Nemes has extensive experience securing rescue financings, dividend recapitalizations and continuation vehicles to provide investors with solutions that other advisors failed to identify.
On behalf of Lohem Partners, Mr. Nemes has served as the Head of Restructuring for Victory Park Capital across a multi-billion dollar portfolio for the past several years. Mr. Nemes currently serves on the boards of Giordano's Pizza and Pattern Brands, and he has previously served as a director or observer at several Victory Park portfolio companies, including Nationwide Energy Partners, American Plastics, and Cardenas Markets. Throughout his career, Mr. Nemes has held board positions at over 10 businesses as a control investor, independent director, or observer. Mr. Nemes has navigated through multiple operational turnarounds with hands-on experience across major functional areas of each business, as he developed value creation plans, financing solutions and ultimate monetization plans.
Prior to founding Lohem Partners, Mr. Nemes was a Partner and Co-Founder of Aves Capital Management, a manager of special situation–oriented structured capital investments and funds, where he served on the Investment and Valuation committees. Before that, he was a Principal at Victory Park Capital, where he oversaw multiple private credit investments and was responsible for underwriting, structuring, monitoring, restructuring, and exiting both debt and equity positions. Earlier in his career, Mr. Nemes was an investment professional at Metalmark Capital, a middle-market control buyout firm, and worked in investment banking at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs.
Mr. Nemes earned a Bachelor of Commerce, Major in Finance from McGill University and graduated on the Dean's Honor List with Great Distinction.