Charles has served as Head of Leveraged Loan Research at Xtract since 2016.  Previously, he was engaged in the practice of law for more than thirty years, most recently as a partner at Chapman and Cutler LLP and Sidley Austin LLP.  In serving as counsel to domestic and foreign commercial banks, investment banking firms and corporations, he specialized in negotiating and documenting commercial and bank finance arrangements, including secured and unsecured acquisition, leveraged, working capital and letter of credit financings and liquidity facilities.    

Mr. Geenberg oversees the North American investment team, with responsibility across the firm’s investment, restructuring, and operational functions based in Greenwich, CT.

Since joining Strategic Value Partners in 2009, Mr. Geenberg has led investment efforts over a range of industries including infrastructure, energy, power generation, and industrials.  In that capacity, Mr. Geenberg has overseen the firm’s control deals in North America, including GenOn, OmniMax, PureField, and SH-130. Previously, Mr. Geenberg worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co., most recently in its infrastructure private equity business, and, prior to that, in the investment bank’s natural resources group.

Mr. Geenberg received a BA in Economics summa cum laude from Dartmouth College in 2005.  Mr. Geenberg is on the Boards of Directors of OmniMax International, GenOn Holdings, Purefield Ingredients, and SilverBow Resources, and previously served on the Boards of Bicent Power, Penn Virginia Corporation, Chaparral Energy, and White Energy.

Leonard Klingbaum is co-head of Ropes & Gray’s global capital solutions and private credit group and actively participates in the firm’s finance group. Leonard’s practice focuses on event driven and opportunistic financing transactions, as well as special situations, workouts, restructurings and insolvency matters. He routinely represents participants in all aspects of the capital solutions' arena, including distressed investing, strategic lending, loan-to-own, and restructuring matters. He has represented lenders (credit funds) and borrowers in direct lending, high yield, and mezzanine transactions, from the lower middle market to large cap transactions. He also acts on behalf of public and private corporate clients as general finance counsel.

Leonard has been recognized by The Legal 500 (United States), where clients recognize him as “diligent and hardworking" and "adept at locating problems and finding solutions.” Additionally, IFLR 1000 ranks him as “highly regarded,” and he has been recognized by the Turnaround Management Association with a Transaction of the Year award. Leonard also has been ranked by Chambers USA as one of America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2021-2023).

Mr. Krause is a Partner at Owl Creek Asset Management, L.P., where he focuses primarily on process-driven distressed and special situation opportunities. Before joining Owl Creek, Mr. Krause was a bankruptcy attorney at Davis Polk and White & Case, where he advised debtors, creditors and investors in distressed and bankrupt companies. He has substantial experience in a broad range of corporate matters, with a focus on restructurings and bankruptcies. Prior to joining the bar, Mr. Krause’s varied experience also included stints as chief operating officer of a toy company, in business development at a San Francisco-based dot-com, in commercial finance at GE Capital, and as a business re-engineering consultant for Accenture.

Mr. Krause is a member of the Bankruptcy Committee for the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, a member of the Distressed Investor Roundtable, a member of the Advisory Board of the Creditor Rights Coalition, a member of the board of the Columbia Journal of Law & Social Problems, and a former co-chair of the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) Business Reorganization Committee. Mr. Krause is a regular speaker at bankruptcy and restructuring industry events, has published numerous articles and chapters on bankruptcy topics, and was selected as one of Turnaround and Workouts' Outstanding Restructuring Lawyers. Mr. Krause also sits on the boards of several charities, not-for-profit organizations, and private businesses.

• Mr. Rahmani is an Executive Director in Perella Weinberg Partners’ Advisory business. He focuses on advising companies, creditor groups, and investors on corporate restructurings, financings, M&A and other transactions. 
• During his tenure at Perella Weinberg Partners, Mr. Rahmani has advised a wide range of companies and boards, including Concordia International, Del Monte, EB Holdings, Halcon Resources, iHeartMedia, Oasis Petroleum, and Vantage Drilling. Mr. Rahmani also has experience representing creditor groups, unsecured creditor committees, and investors both in-court and out-of-court, including on transactions involving Celsius Networks, Diamond Offshore, Hexion, Ocean Rig, Peabody, Pyxus, Salt Creek Midstream, Savers, Travel Leaders Group, and VER Technologies. 
• Prior to joining Perella Weinberg Partners, Mr. Rahmani was at CIT Group from 2012 to 2016 where he invested in middle-market private debt and syndicated loans in the TMT and Gaming sectors. He began his career at Deloitte, participating in a rotation program through the strategy consulting and financial advisory groups. 
• Mr. Rahmani received a Bachelor’s of Science, with a double major in Accounting and Finance from Yeshiva University.  Mr. Rahmani currently holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and was previously a CPA in NY