Mr. Buck is a Managing Principal at DW Partners (“DW”), a credit-focused multi-strategy asset manager overseeing in excess of $4 billion, where he co-leads the firm’s Middle-Market Special Situation Group, which provides bespoke debt or equity capital solutions for middle-market businesses that are displaced, ignored, or rejected by traditional capital providers. Since its formation in April 2014, his team has committed over $300 million in risk capital.
Prior to joining DW, Mr. Buck was Managing Director at Versa Capital Management, where he originated, underwrote and placed numerous distressed debt purchases, buyouts, and financing transactions, including Civitas Media, Bob’s Stores, Eastern Mountain Sports, Black Angus Steakhouses, Bridgestreet, Avenue Stores, and Polartec. He was a director of Civitas Media LLC, a consolidation of community. Prior to joining Versa in 2006, Mr. Buck was Vice President at Cerberus Capital Management, where he led middle-market deal origination efforts and supported the underwriting of numerous. He was a co-founder of TenX Capital, a partnership that focused on control investments in underperforming technology, telecommunications, and business services companies which was merged into Cerberus.
Mr. Buck is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the Fox Graduate School of Business. He is actively involved with the Turnaround Management Association (TMA), Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), and Commercial Finance Association (CFA), and is a board member of the Philadelphia Chapter of the TMA. Mr. Buck has presented on numerous panels addressing topics on distressed investing, turnarounds, and credit markets on behalf of TMA, CFA, ACG, the Wharton School of Business, and the American Bankruptcy Institute.
Mr. Buck is and avid golfer, snowboarder, and musician. He resides in Berwyn, PA, with his wife, Amy, and daughters, Lanie and Caroline.
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