Lawrence First
Chief Investment Officer
management
Boart Longyear
Canada
Biography
Mr. First joins the Board from Ascribe Capital, where he serves as Chief Investment Officer and Managing Director. Prior to starting at Ascribe in 2008, he was a Managing Director and Co-Portfolio Manager in Merrill Lynch’s Principal Credit Group, a proprietary investing platform for the firm’s capital, where he was responsible for evaluating and managing assets in the team’s North American portfolio, including non-investment grade bank loans, stressed/distressed fixed income investments and public and private equity. Earlier in his career, Mr First was a senior partner in the Bankruptcy and Restructuring department of the law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, LLP, where he began his legal career. Mr. First received a B.A. in History and Sociology from Haverford College, and a J.D. from New York University School of Law. He also attended the London School of Economics.
Research Interest
evaluating and managing assets in the team’s North American portfolio, including non-investment grade bank loans, stressed/distressed fixed income investments and public and private equity.
