J. Scott Victor
Managing Director
(610) 940-5802
jsvictor@ssgca.com

J. Scott Victor is a founding partner and Managing Director of SSG Capital Advisors, LLC, a leading boutique middle market special situations investment banking firm with offices outside of Philadelphia, PA and in New York, NY. Prior to reacquiring SSG from National City/PNC in May 2009, he was Senior Managing Director and Co-Head of the Special Situations Group of National City Investment Banking which acquired SSG in August 2006. Prior to his transition to investment banking in 2000, he was a partner at Saul Ewing, LLP and a senior member of its Bankruptcy and Reorganization Department.

With over 25 years of experience in representing companies in Chapter 11 proceedings, workouts and restructurings, Mr. Victor is an expert in the restructuring, refinancing and sale of distressed middle-market companies. As a Managing Director of SSG, he provides investment banking services focusing on the sale, turnaround financing, restructuring and complex valuation of middle-market companies facing operational and/or financial challenges both in and out of Chapter 11 proceedings throughout the U.S. and Europe. His clients are both public traded and privately held companies in a wide variety of industries including manufacturing, home furnishings, automotive, distribution, consumer products, healthcare, chemical, telecommunications, food processing, media, printing, packaging, service, transportation, publishing, e-commerce and retail.

Mr. Victor is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. He is also an active member of the Turnaround Management Association (immediate past Chairman and former President of the Philadelphia Chapter, a former member of the Executive Committee and a current member of Board of Directors of TMA International and served as 2006-2007 Vice President of Conferences) and the American Bankruptcy Institute (member of the Board of Directors, 2007-2009 Co-Chair of the Investment Banking Committee, Co-Chair of the 2006 ABI Complex Financial Restructuring Conference and Board of Advisors for the 2007, 2008 and 2009 ABI Mid-Atlantic Bankruptcy Conference, 2008-2009 VALCON Conference and 2006-2009 Complex Financial Restructuring Conference).

Mr. Victor has completed transactions for the following clients:

ABFS Financial Corporation Accretive Solutions Allegheny Child Care Academy, Inc. Appliance Controls Group AstroPower Atersa Baldwin Piano and Organ Company Bernard Technologies, Inc. Big 10 Tires Boscov’s, Inc. Bruno’s Supermarkets, LLC W. Atlee Burpee & Company CanFibre of Riverside, Inc. CB Technologies Centis, Inc. Cherrydale Farms Coram Healthcare Corporation CountryHome Bakers Craftex Mills, Inc. DeMirco Industries Diamond Glass Atersa GCom2 Solutions Global Financial Press Global Vision Harvard Industries Joan Fabrics Corporation

Lumity Medspa Management Cleaning Controls, LLC Marcal Paper Mills, Inc. MediaBay, Inc Monarch Windows Nobex Corporation Penn Specialty Chemicals Pennfield Precision, Inc. Perryville Energy Partners, LLC PetroChem Pharmaceutical Formulations Reading Broadcasting, Inc. Ritz Camera Centers Riverside Millwork Company, Inc. Rowe Furniture, Inc. Shapes/Arch Holdings, LLC Simplicity for Children, Inc. StorNet Summit Manufacturing, LLC The Glass Group, Inc. The MIIX Group, Inc. Nobex Corporation The Peer Group, Inc. United Sleep UpRight, Inc. U.S. Wireless Zestra Laboratories, Inc.

Education:
·  University of Pennsylvania, B.A.
·  University of Miami School of Law, J.D.