Chad Bacon

Chad Bacon joined Portage Point in 2020 and currently serves as a Vice President in the firm’s Chicago office where his primary responsibilities include assisting clients with liquidity management, contingency planning, stakeholder communications and bankruptcy services.

While at Portage Point, Chad has helped various clients with bankruptcy preparation, lender negotiations and bankruptcy reporting. He served a leading role in the restructuring of Hornbeck Offshore Services Inc., a provider of marine transportation services to the offshore oil and gas industry with operations spanning the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, Brazil and other foreign regions around the world. While working alongside the Hornbeck team, Chad constructed a detailed debtor-in-possession (DIP) budget using customer / vendor level detail to forecast weekly operating cash flow and restructuring costs, completed weekly DIP budget variance reports to ensure compliance with restructuring support agreement (RSA) and assisted in the development of first-day motions and bankruptcy reporting requirements post-petition.

Prior to joining Portage Point, Chad was an Investment Banking Analyst in the Consumer Group at Rothschild & Co. where he focused on analyzing and executing strategic alternatives for industry group clients using discounted cash flow, comparable company, precedent transaction and leveraged buyout analyses. While at Rothschild, Chad advised a family-owned foodservice distributor on its $500 million targeted sale process as well as an international foodservice supplier on its $1.3 billion sale process.

Chad graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and was a member of the Investment Banking Workshop and Business Honors Program. Chad holds his Series 79 certification.