Christopher R. LeWand

Chris LeWand is the global Power, Renewables & Energy Transition practice leader and a member of FTI Capital Advisors. Mr. LeWand is an expert at providing capital and M&A advisory, strategic and financial planning and execution, business transformation, valuation and restructuring and dispute advisory services.

Mr. LeWand has served as a financial advisor on all aspects of M&A transactions, including buy and sell mandates and capital raises, as well as accounting, financial and operational due diligence. His expertise also extends to the identification of acquisition targets and the analysis of financial and operational synergies in potential mergers. Additionally, he has prepared and negotiated bids and acquisition agreements on both distressed and healthy environments. Mr. LeWand has performed merger integration and carve-out advisory work on major business combinations and divestitures, including running project management offices (“PMOs”), developing and implementing functional team plans and performing business reorganization. He has also led profit improvement, financial management planning, product road-mapping and customer segmentation and has served as a member of numerous executive steering committees.

Mr. LeWand has assisted clients in developing and implementing new business models and approaches through strategic advisory services. This has included foreign and domestic entrants seeking to consider macro competitive, regulatory and general market dynamics, as well as situation and entity-specific considerations where key levers of challenge and success required careful analysis and consideration in order to drive optionality and optimized results. Mr. LeWand has led many assignments for the valuation of publicly-traded and privately-held companies and assets. These have been performed for numerous purposes, including transaction pricing and structuring; accounting compliance and regulatory purposes; evaluating transaction fairness; financing, securitization and collateralization; expert testimony and dispute resolution; and insolvency and fraudulent conveyance evaluations.

Mr. LeWand has managed a wide range of cases for clients in both formal bankruptcy proceedings and out-of-court restructurings. Related services have included development and review of business plans, leading performance improvement initiatives, valuations, liquidation analyses, competitive benchmarking, distressed asset and business marketing and sales. He also has experience in management of operations and segment closures, renegotiation of credit facilities, company monitoring and development and implementation of cash management programs. Additionally, Mr. LeWand has provided expert witness testimony and assisted clients with disputes in various capacities in more than 50 cases, including as an industry expert, in the calculation of damages related to fraud, regarding valuation issues and in United States Bankruptcy Court.

Mr. LeWand has served on boards, acted as board advisor and taken interim management roles, including Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”), Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”), Chief Restructuring Officer (“CRO”) and private equity fund Managing Director for multibillion-dollar enterprises. The result is consulting and advisory services which come from the perspective of someone who knows what it means to be held accountable for critical decisions and the rigor required to generate the highest likelihood of success.

Awards & Recognitions:

• Top 100 Most Influential in the North America Power Industry, A Word About Wind (2022-2023)
• Top 25 Most Influential Sustainability Leaders in Consulting, The Consulting Report (2022-2024)
• Global Leader, Energy Expert, Who's Who Legal (2021-2022)