Rob Grien is a Senior Advisor TM Capital LLC. Rob has over 30 years of experience in finance, specializing in leveraged finance. He has extensive experience committing debt capital to leveraged transactions and an in-depth knowledge of the leveraged finance market, having committed to and executed upon multiple billions of dollars in debt facilities spanning several hundred transactions. Rob’s areas of expertise include complex financial structuring, restructuring, due diligence, credit analysis, loan documentation, valuations and market pricing.
In addition, Rob does a significant amount of work as an expert witness. His areas of expertise include due diligence, credit analysis, deal structuring and negotiation, workouts, valuation, and market pricing.
Prior to joining TM Capital, Rob was a Senior Managing Director and Head of the Leveraged Finance Group at Deerfield Capital Management, where he served as President of Deerfield Capital Corp. (NYSE- DFR) and oversaw the firm’s direct middle market lending activities which included originating and executing nearly $1 billion in first lien, second lien and mezzanine loans.
Previously, Rob held several positions at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp., including Chief Credit Officer of the Investment Banking and Leveraged Finance Departments and Chairman of the Credit Commitment Committee. He was also a founding partner of DLJ Strategic Partners, a million private equity secondary fund, and a co-founder and chief operating officer of the Kelso Mezzanine Fund, a private equity fund focused on mezzanine loans.
Rob graduated from Tulane University with a BS in political science and received an MBA with Beta Gamma Sigma honors from Columbia Business School.
Rob is an accomplished photographer who has had several exhibitions of his work. He is also a licensed, instrument rated, pilot and flies regularly flies missions for Angel Flight Northeast, an organization dedicated to providing free air and ground transportation so that patients can access life-saving medical care.