Charles Evans

Senior Director
16+ years of experience in distressed investing, restructuring and investment banking in Asia and Australia
Specializes in operational and financial restructuring (both consensual and in-court, e.g., Indonesian PKPU)
Singapore
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Charles Evans is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Restructuring in Singapore and Jakarta. He brings more than 16 years of experience in distressed investing, restructuring and investment banking in Asia and Australia.

Mr. Evans has worked with clients in various industries to restructure their businesses. He has extensive experience in consensual and in-court processes, particularly Indonesian PKPU. His recent engagements include advising noteholders in the restructuring of an Indonesian textile company with debt totaling $378 million; advising a global telecom multinational on cost optimization including towerco renegotiation for their Myanmar subsidiary; advising on corporate transformation related to cost and value for the Southeast Asian subsidiaries of a multinational global beverage corporation; and serving as a financial advisor to a global financial payments firm and then as Chief Restructuring Officer (CRO) for its Asia-Pacific operations.

Mr. Evans also served as a financial advisor to a hotel and office workspace operator with operations in Asia and Australia; as CRO for a Singapore-listed hotel REIT with assets in the U.S.; as financial advisor to the senior secured lenders to a listed palm plantation operator in Indonesia on the restructuring of debt totaling ~$700 million; and as financial advisor to an Indonesian consumer electronics company with ~$500 million in debt.

Previously, Mr. Evans was the financial advisor to the lenders of the third largest Indonesian paper manufacturer; served as financial advisor to the syndicated secured lenders of an Indonesian oil and gas drilling company with a total debt of ~$420 million, for whom he subsequently served as the Monitoring Accountant; and advised an Indonesian telecom company on the restructuring of debts totaling $1 billion.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Evans was a Managing Director with FTI Consulting, based in Jakarta. Previously, he was a Research Analyst with a Singapore-based distressed and event-driven fund, where he managed investments across APAC. He also worked with BNP Paribas in Sydney, focusing on managing non-performing loans and on acquisition and leveraged finance.

Mr. Evans earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Sydney and an MBA from INSEAD. He is conversant in Bahasa Indonesia. 

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