James Decker
Managing Director
Head of Recapitalization & Restructuring Group
Atlanta
+1 212 218 3805

Mr. Decker is a Managing Director in the firm’s Investment Banking practice and Head of the Recapitalization & Restructuring Group. Mr. Decker’s 20 years of investment banking and financial restructuring experience includes senior positions held at Alvarez & Marsal and Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin. Mr. Decker also founded and served as president of Inverness Partners Incorporated, a boutique mergers and acquisitions firm that was acquired by Houlihan Lokey. Mr. Decker is a Fellow in The American College of Bankruptcy, a Director of the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors (AIRA), and a Director of the Atlanta Chapter of the Turnaround Management Association (TMA). Additionally, Mr. Decker has served the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) as both co-Chair of the Investment Banking Committee and co-Chair of the Southeastern Bankruptcy Workshop. Mr. Decker holds a B.S. degree from Vanderbilt University and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.