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Municipals & Tax-Exempt
Key Contacts
Managing Director /New York
J. Soren Reynertson
Education
Mr. Reynertson has successfully completed the following FINRA Administered Qualification Examinations: Series 7, 24, 50, 54 & 63. Mr. Reynertson passed the Financial Services Authority (FSA) Securities Exam in the UK including CF21 (Investment Adviser) and CF309 (Customer). Mr. Reynertson held a gaming license with the State of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Reynertson received a BA from Emory University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
Years of Experience
25+Career Highlights
Before founding GLC Advisors, Mr. Reynertson was a Managing Director in UBS’ Restructuring & Leveraged Finance Group based in New York. Previously, Mr. Reynertson was a Managing Director and Head of the European Strategic Finance Group at Morgan Stanley in London. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Mr. Reynertson also held various roles within UBS’ Restructuring team in New York and London including Managing Director and Head of UBS’ European Restructuring team.
Mr. Reynertson was also a crisis manager for Jay Alix Associates (now AlixPartners) where he focused on taking operational roles in financially distressed businesses. Mr. Reynertson also worked in PriceWaterhouse’s (now PwC’s) Dispute Analysis and Corporate Recovery Group in New York, providing advisory services to troubled companies and their creditors.
Bio
Soren Reynertson is a Managing Director and the Managing General Partner of GLC Advisors, which he co-founded in 2009. Based in the New York office, he has worked with companies and their creditors on numerous assignments including bankruptcy reorganizations, exchange offers, out-of-court workouts, M&A, financings and recapitalizations. Recent assignments include roles in: Hertz, iHeart, First Energy Solutions, Riverbed Technologies, City of Detroit, Jefferson County, LBI ehf. (formerly Landsbanki Íslands hf.), Puerto Rico, Brookstone, Caesars, Foxwoods, Basic Energy, Radio Shack, Rivers Casino, Healogics, City of Atlantic City and Toys R Us.
Mr. Reynertson is a regular guest lecturer on several college campuses, including Columbia University, Emory University, UCLA, University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania.
Managing Director /New York
Michael J. Sellinger
Education
Mr. Sellinger holds a BBA from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, where he graduated with High Distinction.
Mr. Sellinger has successfully completed the following FINRA Qualification Examinations: Series 7, 24, 63 & 79.
Career Highlights
Michael Sellinger joined GLC in 2009 and has worked on numerous in-court and out-of-court restructurings involving issuers from a range of industries. Mr. Sellinger’s recent experience includes representing Brookstone in its Chapter 11 filing and creditors in the bankruptcies of iHeart Communications, McClatchy and Toys R Us.
Mr. Sellinger has worked on a variety of corporate gaming transactions at GLC including those involving Boyd Gaming, Borgata, Caesars and Majestic Star. In addition, having worked on Foxwoods and numerous other casino transactions in Indian Country, he has successfully led GLC’s effort to create the dominant restructuring practice in Tribal gaming.
Mr. Sellinger was previously a Director in UBS’s Restructuring and Growth Capital Groups in San Francisco, where he focused on the restructuring of distressed securities as well as the new issuance of bank loans and high yield bonds. Mr. Sellinger also covered several leading financial sponsors.
Prior to joining UBS, Mr. Sellinger was an Associate in the Restructuring Group of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette / Credit Suisse First Boston in San Francisco. He began his career as an Analyst in Investment Banking for DLJ in Los Angeles.
Bio
Mr. Sellinger currently serves on the Board of Directors of Alpha Media, the largest privately held radio broadcast company in the United States. He previously served as a Board Observer of Guitar Center at the request of certain creditors.
Managing Director /New York
Alex Geier
Education
Mr. Geier holds FINRA Series 24, 50, 63 and 79 licenses as well as an MBA from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University and an AB in Political Science and Economics from Duke University.
Years of Experience
25+Career Highlights
Mr. Geier was most recently with BMO Financial Group, where he ran the Healthcare Sponsor Finance team for 6 years, and also served as a Managing Director covering Healthcare in the Leveraged Finance Group of BMO Capital Markets. Prior to joining BMO, Mr. Geier spent 12 years at UBS in Healthcare-focused roles in Leveraged Finance, Capital Markets and High Yield Research. He previously covered the sector as a High Yield Analyst at BT Alex.Brown and Bank of America.
Overall, Mr. Geier has worked on more than 200 Healthcare assignments, encompassing a wide range of transaction types (restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, carve-outs, dividend and other recapitalizations, exit financings, refinancings and growth capital) and financing instruments (1st and 2nd-lien loans, high yield bonds and bridge loans, unitranche facilities, mezzanine debt and preferred and common equity).
Bio
Alex Geier joined GLC in 2020 and leads the firm’s Healthcare practice. He has more than 25 years of overall experience across Services, Digital Health/HCIT, Medical Devices and Life Sciences, as well as deep subject matter expertise in the public and private credit markets. Representative transactions at GLC include Carestream Health, Healogics, Invacare, SpineOne and StimWave Technologies.
Managing Director /New York
Robert H. Swindell
Education
Mr. Swindell holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Economics from the University of Virginia.
Career Highlights
Prior to joining GLC, Mr. Swindell was CEO of the Civitas Group, an advisory firm specializing in the homeland and national security industries. He was a Managing Director at Lehman Brothers, where he ran the Global Debt Capital Markets, Global Consumer and Industrial and US Technology Groups within Investment Banking. He was a member of the Investment Banking Operating Committee.
He is on the Board of the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences Foundation and several private companies. Mr. Swindell has successfully completed the FINRA Administered Qualification Examination: Series 7, 63 & 24.
Bio
Robert H. Swindell has been a Managing Director at GLC Advisors & Co., LLC since 2013.
Mr. Swindell has worked on a number of assignments including M&A, out of court work outs, and financings primarily in the consumer, business services, energy, mining and healthcare industries.
Managing Director /New York
Sean Cannon
Education
Mr. Cannon holds a BS in Finance from Lehigh University and holds FINRA Series 24, 50, 63, and 79 licenses.
Years of Experience
14+Career Highlights
Prior to joining GLC, Mr. Cannon worked at CRT Capital where he focused on investment banking advisory assignments across M&A and private capital raising.
Prior to joining CRT, Mr. Cannon worked in the Transaction Services practice at KPMG where he focused on M&A advisory services.
In 2023, Mr. Cannon received the 14th Annual Emerging Leaders Award by The M&A Advisor. The award recognizes professionals under 40 who have reached a significant level of success in their careers and made notable contributions to their industry and community.
Bio
Sean Cannon is a Managing Director at GLC with over 14 years of investment banking experience. Mr. Cannon joined GLC in 2013 and has advised companies, creditors and sponsors on over $33 billion of transactions including restructurings, recapitalizations, financings, mergers and acquisitions across a range of industry sectors including healthcare, consumer, retail, gaming, media, telecom and tax-exempt finance.
Examples of Mr. Cannon’s recent transactions include Carestream Health, Endo International, Great Lakes Senior Living, iHeartMedia, Healogics, Hertz, JCPenny, McClatchy, Stimwave Technologies, Toys R Us, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, among others.
Managing Director /New York
Michael Kizer
Education
Mr. Kizer holds an MBA and a certificate in International Development from the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and a BSBA with concentrations in Finance and International Business from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.
He has completed the following FINRA Qualification Examinations: Series 24, 63 & 79.
Career Highlights
Prior to GLC, Mr. Kizer was a Vice President in Rothschild, Inc.’s Natural Resources and Power & Utilities global sector coverage groups in Washington, DC. During the seven years he spent at Rothschild, he advised corporations and project sponsors on mergers and acquisitions and project financings in more than 40 countries.
Mr. Kizer is an Independent Director of Talus Renewables, a green ammonia company.
Bio
Michael Kizer is a Managing Director at GLC Advisors. Since joining the firm in 2015, he has advised companies and creditors on bankruptcy reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, financing transactions. Specific transactions include: Basic Energy Services, Columbia Pulp, Red Rock Biofuels, Riverbed Technology, Tacora Resources, Pengrowth Energy, TerraVia Holdings and FirstEnergy Solutions.
Education
Mr. Kizer holds an MBA and a certificate in International Development from the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and a BSBA with concentrations in Finance and International Business from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.
He has completed the following FINRA Qualification Examinations: Series 24, 63 & 79.
Education
Mr. Reynertson has successfully completed the following FINRA Administered Qualification Examinations: Series 7, 24, 50, 54 & 63. Mr. Reynertson passed the Financial Services Authority (FSA) Securities Exam in the UK including CF21 (Investment Adviser) and CF309 (Customer). Mr. Reynertson held a gaming license with the State of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Reynertson received a BA from Emory University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
Years of Experience
25+Career Highlights
Before founding GLC Advisors, Mr. Reynertson was a Managing Director in UBS’ Restructuring & Leveraged Finance Group based in New York. Previously, Mr. Reynertson was a Managing Director and Head of the European Strategic Finance Group at Morgan Stanley in London. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Mr. Reynertson also held various roles within UBS’ Restructuring team in New York and London including Managing Director and Head of UBS’ European Restructuring team.
Mr. Reynertson was also a crisis manager for Jay Alix Associates (now AlixPartners) where he focused on taking operational roles in financially distressed businesses. Mr. Reynertson also worked in PriceWaterhouse’s (now PwC’s) Dispute Analysis and Corporate Recovery Group in New York, providing advisory services to troubled companies and their creditors.
Bio
Soren Reynertson is a Managing Director and the Managing General Partner of GLC Advisors, which he co-founded in 2009. Based in the New York office, he has worked with companies and their creditors on numerous assignments including bankruptcy reorganizations, exchange offers, out-of-court workouts, M&A, financings and recapitalizations. Recent assignments include roles in: Hertz, iHeart, First Energy Solutions, Riverbed Technologies, City of Detroit, Jefferson County, LBI ehf. (formerly Landsbanki Íslands hf.), Puerto Rico, Brookstone, Caesars, Foxwoods, Basic Energy, Radio Shack, Rivers Casino, Healogics, City of Atlantic City and Toys R Us.
Mr. Reynertson is a regular guest lecturer on several college campuses, including Columbia University, Emory University, UCLA, University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania.
Education
Mr. Kizer holds an MBA and a certificate in International Development from the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and a BSBA with concentrations in Finance and International Business from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.
He has completed the following FINRA Qualification Examinations: Series 24, 63 & 79.
Education
Mr. Sellinger holds a BBA from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, where he graduated with High Distinction.
Mr. Sellinger has successfully completed the following FINRA Qualification Examinations: Series 7, 24, 63 & 79.
Career Highlights
Michael Sellinger joined GLC in 2009 and has worked on numerous in-court and out-of-court restructurings involving issuers from a range of industries. Mr. Sellinger’s recent experience includes representing Brookstone in its Chapter 11 filing and creditors in the bankruptcies of iHeart Communications, McClatchy and Toys R Us.
Mr. Sellinger has worked on a variety of corporate gaming transactions at GLC including those involving Boyd Gaming, Borgata, Caesars and Majestic Star. In addition, having worked on Foxwoods and numerous other casino transactions in Indian Country, he has successfully led GLC’s effort to create the dominant restructuring practice in Tribal gaming.
Mr. Sellinger was previously a Director in UBS’s Restructuring and Growth Capital Groups in San Francisco, where he focused on the restructuring of distressed securities as well as the new issuance of bank loans and high yield bonds. Mr. Sellinger also covered several leading financial sponsors.
Prior to joining UBS, Mr. Sellinger was an Associate in the Restructuring Group of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette / Credit Suisse First Boston in San Francisco. He began his career as an Analyst in Investment Banking for DLJ in Los Angeles.
Bio
Mr. Sellinger currently serves on the Board of Directors of Alpha Media, the largest privately held radio broadcast company in the United States. He previously served as a Board Observer of Guitar Center at the request of certain creditors.
Education
Mr. Kizer holds an MBA and a certificate in International Development from the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and a BSBA with concentrations in Finance and International Business from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.
He has completed the following FINRA Qualification Examinations: Series 24, 63 & 79.
Education
Mr. Geier holds FINRA Series 24, 50, 63 and 79 licenses as well as an MBA from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University and an AB in Political Science and Economics from Duke University.
Years of Experience
25+Career Highlights
Mr. Geier was most recently with BMO Financial Group, where he ran the Healthcare Sponsor Finance team for 6 years, and also served as a Managing Director covering Healthcare in the Leveraged Finance Group of BMO Capital Markets. Prior to joining BMO, Mr. Geier spent 12 years at UBS in Healthcare-focused roles in Leveraged Finance, Capital Markets and High Yield Research. He previously covered the sector as a High Yield Analyst at BT Alex.Brown and Bank of America.
Overall, Mr. Geier has worked on more than 200 Healthcare assignments, encompassing a wide range of transaction types (restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, carve-outs, dividend and other recapitalizations, exit financings, refinancings and growth capital) and financing instruments (1st and 2nd-lien loans, high yield bonds and bridge loans, unitranche facilities, mezzanine debt and preferred and common equity).
Bio
Alex Geier joined GLC in 2020 and leads the firm’s Healthcare practice. He has more than 25 years of overall experience across Services, Digital Health/HCIT, Medical Devices and Life Sciences, as well as deep subject matter expertise in the public and private credit markets. Representative transactions at GLC include Carestream Health, Healogics, Invacare, SpineOne and StimWave Technologies.
Education
Mr. Kizer holds an MBA and a certificate in International Development from the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and a BSBA with concentrations in Finance and International Business from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.
He has completed the following FINRA Qualification Examinations: Series 24, 63 & 79.
Education
Mr. Swindell holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Economics from the University of Virginia.
Career Highlights
Prior to joining GLC, Mr. Swindell was CEO of the Civitas Group, an advisory firm specializing in the homeland and national security industries. He was a Managing Director at Lehman Brothers, where he ran the Global Debt Capital Markets, Global Consumer and Industrial and US Technology Groups within Investment Banking. He was a member of the Investment Banking Operating Committee.
He is on the Board of the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences Foundation and several private companies. Mr. Swindell has successfully completed the FINRA Administered Qualification Examination: Series 7, 63 & 24.
Bio
Robert H. Swindell has been a Managing Director at GLC Advisors & Co., LLC since 2013.
Mr. Swindell has worked on a number of assignments including M&A, out of court work outs, and financings primarily in the consumer, business services, energy, mining and healthcare industries.
Education
Mr. Kizer holds an MBA and a certificate in International Development from the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and a BSBA with concentrations in Finance and International Business from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.
He has completed the following FINRA Qualification Examinations: Series 24, 63 & 79.
Education
Mr. Cannon holds a BS in Finance from Lehigh University and holds FINRA Series 24, 50, 63, and 79 licenses.
Years of Experience
14+Career Highlights
Prior to joining GLC, Mr. Cannon worked at CRT Capital where he focused on investment banking advisory assignments across M&A and private capital raising.
Prior to joining CRT, Mr. Cannon worked in the Transaction Services practice at KPMG where he focused on M&A advisory services.
In 2023, Mr. Cannon received the 14th Annual Emerging Leaders Award by The M&A Advisor. The award recognizes professionals under 40 who have reached a significant level of success in their careers and made notable contributions to their industry and community.
Bio
Sean Cannon is a Managing Director at GLC with over 14 years of investment banking experience. Mr. Cannon joined GLC in 2013 and has advised companies, creditors and sponsors on over $33 billion of transactions including restructurings, recapitalizations, financings, mergers and acquisitions across a range of industry sectors including healthcare, consumer, retail, gaming, media, telecom and tax-exempt finance.
Examples of Mr. Cannon’s recent transactions include Carestream Health, Endo International, Great Lakes Senior Living, iHeartMedia, Healogics, Hertz, JCPenny, McClatchy, Stimwave Technologies, Toys R Us, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, among others.
Education
Mr. Kizer holds an MBA and a certificate in International Development from the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and a BSBA with concentrations in Finance and International Business from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.
He has completed the following FINRA Qualification Examinations: Series 24, 63 & 79.
Education
Mr. Kizer holds an MBA and a certificate in International Development from the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and a BSBA with concentrations in Finance and International Business from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.
He has completed the following FINRA Qualification Examinations: Series 24, 63 & 79.
Career Highlights
Prior to GLC, Mr. Kizer was a Vice President in Rothschild, Inc.’s Natural Resources and Power & Utilities global sector coverage groups in Washington, DC. During the seven years he spent at Rothschild, he advised corporations and project sponsors on mergers and acquisitions and project financings in more than 40 countries.
Mr. Kizer is an Independent Director of Talus Renewables, a green ammonia company.
Bio
Michael Kizer is a Managing Director at GLC Advisors. Since joining the firm in 2015, he has advised companies and creditors on bankruptcy reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, financing transactions. Specific transactions include: Basic Energy Services, Columbia Pulp, Red Rock Biofuels, Riverbed Technology, Tacora Resources, Pengrowth Energy, TerraVia Holdings and FirstEnergy Solutions.
Service Overview
Municipals & Tax-Exempt
GLC provides unparalleled services throughout the Municipal and Tax-Exempt sectors. Our professionals have advised on a range of complex transactions including the largest municipal restructurings in the marketplace. Our Municipal and Tax-Exempt team focuses on building long-term relationships that add meaningful value for our clients, including creditors and other institutional investors.
Our broad tax-exempt experience includes tax-exempt issuances related to large municipalities (e.g., Puerto Rico, Detroit, Jefferson County, Atlantic City), project finance (e.g., Red Rock Biofuels, Columbia Pulp), corporate sponsors (e.g., First Energy Solutions, Great Lakes Senior Living, Tower Health), and Tribal gaming (e.g., Foxwoods, River Rock).
GLC is registered with the SEC and MSRB to operate as a Municipal Advisor.
Municipals & Tax-Exempt
Industry Specialties
- Municipalities
- Project-Level Issuers
- Restructurings Under Chapter 9
- Restructurings Under PROMESA
Recent Transactions
Advisor to Ad Hoc Group of Employees Retirement System Bondholders on $3.2 billion Restructuring 
Advisor to Ad Hoc Bondholder Group on $5.2 billion Restructuring 
Advisor to the Indenture Trustee on $5.8 billion restructuring 
Advisor to the Ad Hoc Sewer Warrant Holders on $3.1 billion Restructuring 
Advisor to Borgata on its $190 million tax refund from Atlantic City 
Advisor to Ad Hoc Group of Secured and Unsecured Creditors on $4.4 billion Restructuring 
Advisor to the Ad Hoc Bondholder Committee on $2.0 billion restructuring 
Advisor to Ad Hoc Bondholder Committee on $168 million Restructuring 
Advisor to Company on $390 million Restructuring (Active) 
