Managing Director
 
Email: marc.puntus@millerbuckfire.com
Tel: 212-895-1819
 
Marc Puntus is a Managing Director of Miller Buckfire.  Mr. Puntus has extensive experience in leading restructuring, financing and M&A assignments across a wide array of industries.  Mr. Puntus’s company-side experience includes representing the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, OSI Restaurants Partners, BroderBros., Co., Magna Entertainment Corp., Greatwide Logistics Services, Inc., Vonage Corporation, EaglePicher, Anchor Danly, Progressive Moulded Products, Dura Automotive Systems, Autocam Corporation, Pegasus Satellite Communications, Pegasus Broadcast, Gate Gourmet, Reichhold, Independence Air, Conversent Corporation, Acterna Corporation, Itronix Corporation, CTC Communications, Micro Warehouse, Women First HealthCare, PSINet Inc., SI Corporation, Sunbeam Corporation, Bruno’s, Edison Brothers, Crystal Brands and Best Products.  He also has represented acquirors, secured lenders and committees in transactions involving Station Casinos, Shared Technologies, Ion Media Networks, EaglePicher, XO Communications, AT&T Latin America, SLI Inc., Grove Crane, Mariner Post-Acute Network, Heilig-Meyers, Ionica, First Wave Marine, The Pittsburgh Penguins, RDM Sports Group, Safety Components, The Wiz, Global Broadcasting and Rockefeller Center Properties.
 
Mr. Puntus is a former member of the financial restructuring group of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, which he joined in early 2001.  Prior to joining DrKW, Mr. Puntus was a Partner in the Business, Finance and Restructuring department of the international law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.  Mr. Puntus is a member of several industry trade organizations, including the American Bankruptcy Institute and the Turnaround Management Association, is a frequent lecturer on restructuring, financing and M&A topics and serves on the board of the restructuring committee of the Association of the Bar for the City of New York.  At Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, Mr. Puntus co-authored a chapter entitled “Financing the Chapter 11 Case: Debtor-in-Possession Financing” in Reorganizing Failing Businesses (Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, 1998).  Mr. Puntus has a J.D. (cum laude) from Boston University School of Law and a B.S.B.A./Finance (magna cum laude) from Georgetown University.