Sebastian Nimwegen

Managing Director
15+ years of restructuring and advisory experience
Serves in interim C-level positions
Focuses on cash management, cost reduction programs and structural reorganizations
Duesseldorf
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Sebastian Nimwegen is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal’s Restructuring practice in Germany. He brings more than 15 years of restructuring and advisory experience and has advised on restructurings, performance improvement cases and corporate reorganizations for private equity investors, lenders, shareholders and corporates in various industries across Europe. Mr. Nimwegen focuses on cash management, implementation of improvement and cost reduction programs and structural reorganizations, including wind-downs and M&A transactions.

Most recently at A&M, Mr. Nimwegen acted as interim Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director of a power tools manufacturing company. He was responsible for the European finance organization and other administrative functions and led the post-merger integration and other transformation activities.

Previously, Mr. Nimwegen acted as Chief Restructuring Officer of a German subsidiary of a NYSE-listed IT infrastructure equipment manufacturing company. He led the restructuring program, reducing the workforce, negotiating with the works council, preparing the transfer of local production and the partial wind down of the German site, and did M&A-related and cost reduction activities.

Mr. Nimwegen’s other notable projects include an interim transformation position working with the Managing Director and the shareholder representative of a real estate company. He helped to sell and wind down the business, optimize the cost base and maximize returns for its international shareholders (hedge funds) and managed a complex M&A transaction, implementing business plans, wind-down scenarios, PMO and tracking procedures, the analysis of further cost reduction opportunities and operational wind-down activities. Mr. Nimwegen also prepared an orderly wind-down plan for the portfolio company of an international private equity fund. He planned different sale scenarios and assessed their financial and operational implications. He also prepared indicative timelines and key actions within a liquidation.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Nimwegen was an Assistant Director with Deloitte in London, Düsseldorf and Toronto, where he was involved in several high-profile cross-border restructurings and corporate re-organizations of medium-sized entities.

Mr. Nimwegen earned a master’s degree in business economics and a Ph.D. from the University of Münster in Germany. He is fluent in German and English.

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