Scott Cockerham

Scott Cockerham is a Senior Managing Director in the Corporate Finance & Restructuring segment and is based in Houston. Mr. Cockerham is a member of the Power, Renewables & Energy Transition (“PRET”) practice and brings more than 20 years of experience in financial services. He provides clients with interim management services and advises on business transformation, restructuring and turnaround, transaction diligence and post-merger integration, as well as asset-backed securitization back-up manager engagements.

Mr. Cockerham has served as a Chief Executive Officer and Chief Compliance Officer of an investment bank, Chief Financial Officer of an energy services private equity portfolio company and Chief Development Officer for a multi-vertical energy family office and a privately held exploration and production company. He has also held numerous interim management positions as an advisor.

Mr. Cockerham is a subject-matter expert on various components of the energy industry and has provided leadership to clients in commercial solar engineering, procurement and construction; residential solar; battery storage; and testing and inspection spaces. Additionally, he has worked extensively in legacy energy sectors, including all three streams of oil and gas, mining and metals, and engineering, procurement and construction (“EPC”).

Mr. Cockerham began his career as an officer and aviator in the United States Marine Corps.

Relevant Experience:

• Developed an order-to-cash optimization solution to include training, material construction, enterprise resource planning (“ERP”) tracking and relevant processes; provided 25% increases in EBITDA in a testing and inspection company’s customers
• Negotiated a new battery purchase contract for a residential solar company in breach of a legacy agreement to realign with updated demand and models for more than $200 million in product over a multiyear period
• Constructed a business plan and identified contract pricing realization adjustments for a commercial solar EPC company; then negotiated an amendment to its term loan agreement and subsequent follow-on funding by the client’s private equity sponsor
• Identified an Eagle Ford exploration and production (“E&P”) company’s inability to avoid performance triggers in its asset-backed securitization; advised the asset-backed security’s largest investor in Chapter 11, enabling the investor to secure access to the debtor’s assets and paving the way for a new operator to develop a profitable return for the client
• Renegotiated the offtake agreement for an Appalachian E&P client, followed by a successful amendment by the client’s term lender and investment by its private equity sponsor; led to the avoidance of a bankruptcy filing and a nearly 1,000% increase in asset production