Flip Huffard is a Senior Managing Director in the Restructuring & Reorganization Group.

Since joining Blackstone in 1995, Mr. Huffard has worked on a variety of restructuring and reorganization assignments for companies, creditor groups, corporate parents of troubled companies, and acquirers of distressed assets. These assignments include Patriot Coal, LA Dodgers, Lee Enterprises, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Excel Maritime, Princeton Review, Homer City, Tribune Companies, Flying J, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Winn-Dixie Stores, Fleming Companies, New World Pasta, Adelphia, Dade Behring, The LTV Corporation, and Harnischfeger Industries.

Mr. Huffard has provided expert witness testimony in numerous bankruptcy cases on valuation and capital structure issues and is a frequent public speaker on restructuring topics.

Before joining Blackstone, Mr. Huffard worked at Hellmold Associates, Inc., and Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co., Inc.

Mr. Huffard received a B.A. from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.