Joachim Lubsczyk

Managing Director
17 years of experience in corporate restructuring and turnaround
Advised multi-national corporate, private equity, and mid-cap companies
Extensive experience in restructurings of Tier-1 automotive suppliers
Munich
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Joachim Lubsczyk is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Restructuring in Munich. He brings 17 years of experience in corporate restructuring, business planning, valuation, IT and business process consulting.

Mr. Lubsczyk has worked with clients across various industries, including manufacturing, energy, retail, wholesale and financial services, and especially automotive. Most recently, he was interim head of treasury and assistant CRO at a stock-listed global fast-casual restaurant chain with €400 million annual revenues. He was responsible for the short-term liquidity forecast, implementing working capital measures and negotiating with banks, suppliers and franchising partners and supported the PMO during the implementation of operational improvement measures.

Prior to that, Mr. Lubsczyk acted as interim head of treasury at a €2 billion private equity owned producer of wind turbines where he established a 13-week cash flow forecasting tool to identify the company’s cash position and future cash needs. Previously, he led the implementation of a comprehensive financial and operational restructuring plan of a global Tier-1 automotive supplier. Mr. Lubsczyk’s team developed and implemented the restructuring plan for the supplier’s major plant (c. €120 million revenue/-€63 million EBITDA) leading to a downsizing of the workforce by c. 70 percent and turnaround within the first year.

Previously, Mr. Lubsczyk led the Customer Normalisation work stream in the restructuring program at a €400 million Slovenian automotive supplier, negotiating product prices with the largest customers based on A&M’s profitability analysis. Mr. Lubsczyk also worked for one of the world’s leading suppliers of industrial and automotive batteries. When the U.S. parent company went into chapter 11, he implemented and oversaw the cash management process across Europe.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Lubsczyk spent nine years with Deloitte in Vienna and Munich, most recently as a manager in the turn-around service unit. There, he was seconded for nearly three years to a German maker of premium cars as a risk manager.

Mr. Lubsczyk earned a master’s degree in business informatics from Vienna University of Technology, Austria and an LLM in law/corporate restructuring from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMI). An Austrian national, Mr. Lubsczyk is fluent in German and English

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