Bryan Gaston is a Senior Managing Director with Teneo’s Financial Advisory business. Bryan brings over 30 years of professional experience, including more than two decades specializing in restructuring and advising distressed companies and their creditors.
Bryan has worked in and out of court on some of the most complex restructuring matters. He has held interim management and advisory roles and has provided testimony in various jurisdictions across multiple cases.
Most recently, Bryan was a Senior Managing Director for a full-service, national firm where he was responsible for practice leadership and client service delivery. Prior to his most recent role, Bryan held senior positions at a Houston-based advisory firm specializing in energy, as well as other national and boutique restructuring firms. He has extensive expertise in numerous industries including energy, manufacturing, retail and forest products. Earlier in his career, he worked in commercial lending and business valuation at Merrill Lynch and in auditing and litigation consulting at KPMG.
Select Project Experience:
- Financial advisor to Lodging Enterprises, LLC, owner and operator of 40 hotels and diners in 19 states
- Financial advisor to Rockall Energy, an independent E&P operator
- Independent Board Director to confidential railcar leasing company in- and out-of-court restructuring
- CRO to Energy Alloys, a tube and pipe supplier
- CRO to Emerge Energy Services, a mine operator and frac sand producer
- CRO to Texas Pellets, Inc. an East Texas wood pellet manufacturer supported by a port facility in the Gulf of Mexico for offtake sales to its European customer
- CRO to Rotary Drilling Tools, a provider of threading, heat treating and upset casing for drill pipe used in oil and gas exploration through a Chapter 11 restructuring
- CRO to Rooster Energy, an oil and gas services and production company operating in the shallow-shelf Gulf of Mexico
- COO and restructuring lead to Buccaneer Energy, an oil and gas operator with primary assets and production in Alaska (Kenia Loop) through a Chapter 11 restructuring
- Financial advisor to an independent exploration and production operator with assets in Marcellus Shale region
- Financial advisor and Interim Assistant Treasurer to LyondellBasell in its Chapter 11 restructuring
- Financial advisor to the State of Mississippi as creditor to KiOR, a venture capital-backed biofuels start up
- Advisor to the committee of unsecured creditors in the Dune Energy, American Eagle, ERG Resources and Mercon Coffee bankruptcy cases