Archibald Benhamou Gabriel

Senior Director
10+ years of financial advisory and special situations experience across US and international markets
Expertise in operational performance improvement, liquidity management, business plan development, and asset sale processes
Extensive experience in the energy and healthcare industries
New York
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Archibald Gabriel is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Restructuring & Turnaround in New York.

Mr. Gabriel brings over a decade of financial advisory and special situations experience across multiple industries, including energy, healthcare, automotive, and retail, in both the US and Europe. He has extensive experience in financial advisory and operational performance improvement.

Mr. Gabriel has advised on several large-scale restructuring engagements in the renewable energy sector, involving more than $10 billion of debt. These include major residential solar companies such as Sunnova Energy and SunPower, where he supported business plan development, liquidity management, and sale processes. Mr. Gabriel’s healthcare experience includes advising Envision Healthcare, one of the largest US providers of outsourced emergency department services ($7 billion of debt), and Quorum Health, an operator of hospitals ($2 billion of debt). He has also worked on multiple mid-cap, out-of-court restructuring transactions.

In the automotive sector, Mr. Gabriel supported Takata Corporation during its distressed sale, over the period of one of the largest product recalls in US history. He was also involved in performance improvement initiatives for several Tier 1 automotive suppliers. He has extensive experience in complex international restructurings, including engagements in Europe and Australia. 

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Gabriel spent two years with PwC’s Restructuring practice in New York and five years with EY’s restructuring team in Paris. During this time, he participated in more than 30 restructuring engagements on both debtor and creditor sides, as well as multiple distressed M&A transactions. Mr. Gabriel also completed a secondment in the valuation and business modeling team and worked on due diligence assignments.

Mr. Gabriel earned a master’s degree in finance from ESCP Business School and a PhD in structured finance and restructuring from Sorbonne University. He is a Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor (CIRA) (inactive) and holds the Certification in Distressed Business Valuation (CDBV) (inactive). A frequent panelist on restructuring topics, Mr. Gabriel has recently spoken at events hosted by Columbia University, Sorbonne University, and Fordham University.

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Financial distress is accelerating and becoming more entrenched across European businesses as mounting macroeconomic and geopolitical pressures eroded both earnings and balance sheet resilience in 2025. The latest A&M Distress Alert highlights 13.5% of companies in Europe are now classified as distressed, the highest level since at least 2022 and up from 8.6% in 2024.