Managing Partner

Richard J. Shinder is the founder and Managing Partner of Theatine Partners, an advisory and fiduciary services boutique based in Greenwich, Connecticut.  He has 30 years of experience as an investment banker, restructuring advisor, distressed and special situations investor and fiduciary in connection with complex restructurings and recapitalizations, special situations financings, M+A transactions, private credit, and distressed investments.

Prior to establishing Theatine Partners in May 2020, Richard was Group Head of the Restructuring and Special Situations Group at Piper Jaffray & Co.  Prior to Piper, he was a Managing Director in TPG Capital’s credit investing strategy.  Richard was previously a partner in the Restructuring Group at boutique investment banking firm Perella Weinberg from 2009 to 2014.  Before Perella Weinberg, he was a senior member of the Special Situations Group (SSG) at Goldman Sachs, the firm’s proprietary alternative investment business. 

Earlier in his career he worked in the merchant banking and investing businesses of Merrill Lynch & Co. and Avenue Capital, respectively, and was also a Managing Director in The Blackstone Group’s (now PJT Partners) market-leading Restructuring and Reorganization Group.  He started his career with Lehman Brothers in New York, where he worked in the Infrastructure and Leveraged Finance Groups and spent two years seconded to the Asia Investment Banking team based in Hong Kong.

Mr. Shinder is a highly-regarded restructuring expert and frequent lecturer, speaker and panelist on business and financial topics, and he has written and spoken extensively on economic, financial, geopolitical, cultural, and corporate governance-related issues; his opinion essays have been featured in the Wall Street Journal on multiple occasions, as well as in other publications.  A complete listing of his opinion essays can be found on his Muck Rack profile.

He has served as both an independent director as well as an interested (designee) director for almost two dozen companies, as well as on a number of not-for-profit and philanthropic boards.  He currently serves on several private company boards, acting as Chairman of two such companies.  He has served on the Board of Regents of Gonzaga University for the past twenty-two years, and sits on the University’s Endowment Investment Committee and its SBA Executive Council. He is also a member of the Economic Club of New York and the Turnaround Management Association, as well as the leadership committee of Catholic Renewal, a philanthropic industry body affiliated with Catholic Charities of New York.

Richard earned an MBA with distinction from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated summa cum laude from Gonzaga University.

He currently resides in Greenwich, Connecticut with his wife, children, and more dogs than he recalls signing up for.