James Dubow

Managing Director
Co-heads A&M North Asia
Leads company transformations as C-level management and advisor
Focuses on growing revenue, increasing profits and enhancing cash returns
San Francisco
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Jim Dubow is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal in Hong Kong and San Francisco. He is the Co-Head of A&M North Asia, one of the firm’s most dynamic and rapidly growing areas.

Mr. Dubow and the Asia team bring A&M’s hands-on and action-oriented approach to private equity, banking and corporate clients in all disciplines, including pre-acquisition due diligence, performance improvement, restructuring, fraud investigations and data analytics.

Mr. Dubow assists companies and their stakeholders to grow revenue, increase profits, and enhance cash return return on assets. When control is important to driving change, he has taken Chair, CEO, CFO, CRO, CTO and Director roles at private equity owned local companies, multinationals and a Chinese state-owned enterprise (SOE). He has handled operating transformations and assisted companies in raising capital, restructuring debt, navigating regulatory and compliance issues, and completing trade sales. His industry experience spans retail, commodity trading, energy, healthcare and financial services.

Mr. Dubow’s key Asian engagements include serving as Executive Chairman of a commodity trader following a major debt restructuring; serving as China CEO of a multinational retailer undergoing a comprehensive transformation of product and operations; as CEO of a distressed forestry and wood products company, leading to a sale to a strategic investor; as CFO of an Asia energy company, where he grew the company and guided it to a trade sale to a large SOE, which asked him to lead the post-merger integration; and as CTO of one of the largest Chinese luxury auto dealership groups, where he transformed operations and trade financing.

Prior to joining A&M Asia to establish its China operations, Mr. Dubow was with A&M’s U.S. corporate restructuring practice. There he helped companies improve performance while preparing to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection or sell their assets under court protection, often taking officer positions during the process. Mr. Dubow started his career assisting multinationals in negotiating joint ventures and establish operations in China.

Mr. Dubow earned a bachelor's degree in history (China emphasis), from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA (finance concentration), from the NYU Stern School of Business. He studied at Beijing University as an undergraduate and is fluent in written and spoken Mandarin.

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