Based in Brisbane, Wall provides valuation support to the lending and advisory communities throughout Australia, New Zealand and Asia Pacific.

Wall has over 30 years of experience valuing and appraising assets within the mining, transportation, material handling, marine, civil construction, manufacturing, forestry and primary industries. He has expertise in formal appraisals, residual value advice, industry analysis, equipment and valuation advice, and the pricing and remarketing of assets throughout Asia Pacific. Wall is globally recognized as a pre-eminent expert in mining industry valuations.

Prior to joining Gordon Brothers, Wall was a general manager at an asset valuation and remarketing firm responsible for the asset valuation and remarketing services in the Australian resources sector. He was previously an executive director of GE Capital Asset Management Services where he led valuations and auctioneering for transportation, mining, earthmoving and plant assets in Australia, New Zealand and Asia.

“We are absolutely delighted to have someone of Steve’s caliber join our firm as we continue to expand throughout the region,” said Tim Stewart, Head of Asia Pacific at Gordon Brothers. “His unparalleled depth of knowledge and experience in commercial and industrial valuations is a fantastic addition to our team of tenured valuation experts.”

“I’m excited to join a firm like Gordon Brothers, and one of the largest accredited teams in the industry, to partner with clients to unlock and maximize asset values and provide appraisals that combine the world’s largest database of values, onsite evaluations and in-depth analysis,” said Wall.

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Kuntz will work in partnership with senior leadership and the board of directors to guide Gordon Brothers’ continued, rapid growth and set the firm’s strategy. With nearly 25 years of experience in the private equity, asset management, alternative investment and financial services industries worldwide, she will be responsible for the firm’s operations.

Prior to joining Gordon Brothers, Kuntz was most recently chief operating officer and chief financial officer of global private equity at The Carlyle Group. Over her tenure, Kuntz held various leadership roles where she cultivated a growth strategy, developed a high performing culture, and built and managed teams internationally. She was previously an executive vice president and chief valuation officer at Allied Capital Corporation.

“Norma has joined our firm at an exciting time,” said Ken Frieze, CEO of Gordon Brothers. “With the new CPP Investments partnership, the continued support of Stone Point Capital and over $1 billion of capital available, we’re accelerating the pace of growth, and Norma is a key figure in our future success.”

“I’m thrilled to join Gordon Brothers and to lead a dynamic, global team in the firm’s expansion while ensuring optimal execution, performance and efficiency,” said Kuntz.

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Ken Frieze

Gordon Brothers, the global advisory, restructuring and investment firm, has received US$300 million in financing from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) through its subsidiary CPPIB Credit Investments Inc., increasing the firm’s capital base to over US$1 billion.

This financing will fuel the continued rapid growth of the firm’s capital offerings, which generated over US$700 million in originations worldwide in 2021, building on billions of assets traded and financed in recent years.

“This new investment marks an important milestone in Gordon Brothers’ evolution and builds on our partnership with Stone Point Capital,” said Ken Frieze, CEO of Gordon Brothers. “We look forward to welcoming CPP Investments as we accelerate the growth of our lending, sale leasebacks and investments globally.”

“We are impressed by how the Gordon Brothers’ global platform uniquely leverages deep appraisal and disposition expertise combined with disciplined underwriting to support businesses undergoing transformation,” said Andrew Edgell, Global Head of Credit Investments, CPP Investments. “This new relationship with Gordon Brothers broadens our access to the asset-based lending space as we continue to build a diversified portfolio of credit assets.”

Gordon Brothers provides both short- and long-term capital to clients undergoing transformation. The firm lends against and invests in brands, real estate, inventory, receivables, machinery, equipment and other assets, both together and individually, to provide clients liquidity solutions beyond its market-leading disposition and appraisal services.

Gordon Brothers partners with management teams, private equity sponsors, strategic buyers and asset-based lenders globally to provide our expertise and additional capital in special situations. The firm’s tailor-made solutions provide clients additional capital alongside traditional debt and equity, and its structures complement senior asset-based lending facilities and include credit and yield enhancements.

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Findley brings more than 15 years of experience as a workout banker, restructuring and insolvency professional and client advisor.  In her new role, she will steer clients through some of their most mission-critical operational challenges and lead deals from initial concept and origination, to final execution and portfolio management.

“Samantha has been a longtime creative problem-solver for distressed companies across all industries, and her fresh perspective and expertise will allow us to contribute new ideas to clients and broaden our scope of solutions,” said Tim Stewart, Head of Australia for Gordon Brothers.  “We are excited that she will contribute to continued growth in our special situations capabilities.”

Findley comes to her new position from an Australian bank where she headed a countrywide team that managed the bank’s small and medium-sized client impaired asset portfolio.  She has in-depth understanding of the Australian market, as she has held pivotal roles in some of the country’s largest restructuring transactions.

Gordon Brothers’ Special Situations Investments team offers customised solutions through financing, asset acquisition and other transactions.  The company invests across the entire capital structure and provide clients with additional capital alongside traditional debt.  Gordon Brothers deploys capital across the full spectrum of retail and industrial sectors and assets.

The firm launched its Australian operations in the spring of 2017 and has since grown substantially serving insolvency and restructuring, private equity firms, asset-based lenders, mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance.

Findley will be based in Gordon Brothers’ Sydney office.

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