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About the Role

Credit Investments (CI) is seeking an experienced restructuring professional to strengthen its capability to manage underperforming, stressed and distressed credit investments as the portfolio grows in scale and complexity. The Managing Director, Restructuring will provide dedicated senior creditor-side expertise across workouts, liability management exercises (LMEs), restructurings, liquidity solutions and other stressed situations. The role will partner with CI investment teams to preserve investment value, maximize recoveries and support effective positioning ahead of key events.

Responsibilities

Lead Restructuring Strategy and Execution
Serve as CI's senior restructuring expert and provide commercial leadership and decision-making authority on material stressed and distressed investments.
Partner with investment teams to develop and execute restructuring strategies designed to protect investment value and maximize recoveries.
Lead negotiations involving amendments, waivers, recapitalizations, exchange offers, LMEs, rescue financings, asset sales, refinancings and formal restructuring processes.
Assess alternative restructuring pathways and advise on likely outcomes, negotiating leverage, new-money requirements, timing and execution risk.
Support investment teams in anticipating potential creditor actions and positioning CI effectively ahead of key events.
Provide Senior Commercial Judgment
Provide independent challenge and advice on capital structure, liquidity, valuation, recovery scenarios, financing alternatives and strategic options in distressed situations.
Help teams identify and use sources of negotiating leverage, including opportunities to build alignment with other stakeholders.
Advise on creditor-group formation, steering committees and lender-coordination processes.
Support the selection and efficient direction of external restructuring bankers, financial advisers and other specialists.
Bring current restructuring market intelligence, conventions and precedents to portfolio-management decisions.
Assess proposed outcomes across recovery value, incremental capital, time to resolution, external costs, reputational considerations and demands on deal-team capacity.
Partner with Deal Teams and Legal
Work alongside existing deal teams as the lead restructuring specialist adviser.
Work closely with CI Legal, including dedicated restructuring legal resources, to integrate commercial, negotiating and legal strategy.
Partner with Portfolio Management and senior CI leadership to identify situations requiring early intervention and build strong working relationships across CI and other CPP Investments departments.
Strengthen CI's Restructuring Platform
Play a leadership role in CI's restructuring panel, including triaging situations, challenging strategies and mobilizing resources.
Establish regular watchlist triage to identify situations where specialist involvement can add value before a formal default or restructuring.
Develop restructuring playbooks, precedent libraries, market intelligence and other institutional resources.
Lead post-mortems and transfer lessons across CI investment teams.
Coach and develop investment professionals to increase restructuring knowledge and judgment and help build a scalable capability for a substantially larger CI portfolio.
Broader Contribution
During periods of lower restructuring activity, contribute to broader CI strategic and portfolio initiatives where restructuring, capital-structure, valuation, transaction or market expertise can add value.
Provide restructuring expertise to other parts of CPP Investments and represent CPP Investments credibly with borrowers, sponsors, banks, advisers and institutional creditors in complex and sensitive situations.

Requirements

Significant restructuring experience gained as a banker or adviser at a leading restructuring advisory firm, or investment bank.
Senior-level experience (approximately 15 years) consistent with a Managing Director appointment, with a demonstrated ability to lead complex restructuring processes and advise sophisticated institutional clients.
Deep creditor-side experience representing lenders, bondholders, creditor groups and/or institutional investors.
Extensive experience with LMEs, complex out-of-court restructurings and formal restructuring processes.
Strong expertise in liquidity analysis, capital structures, valuation, recovery analysis, financing alternatives and transaction execution.
Demonstrated experience negotiating with sponsors, companies, creditor groups and advisers in high-stakes situations.
Strong knowledge of restructuring market conventions, precedents and creditor dynamics.
Meaningful familiarity with restructuring documentation and legal concepts, and the ability to work effectively with counsel.
Strong executive presence and judgment, with the ability to influence senior investment professionals while operating in a collaborative, advisory capacity.
Ability to move between detailed transaction execution and broader strategic judgment, with a collaborative mindset suited to CI's deal-team ownership model.

Skills

Restructuring
Workouts
Liability Management Exercises (LMEs)
Stressed situations
Credit Investments
Liquidity solutions
Capital structure
Valuation
Recovery scenarios
Financing alternatives
Strategic options
Negotiating leverage
Market precedents
Creditor actions
Negotiating
Stakeholder alignment
Borrower engagement
Sponsor engagement
Shareholder engagement
Creditor group formation
Steering committees
Lender coordination
Restructuring bankers
Financial advisers
Market intelligence
Portfolio management
Deal teams
Legal counsel
Restructuring legal resources
Commercial strategy
Value-maximizing trade-offs
Portfolio Management
Restructuring panel
Watchlist triage
Restructuring playbooks
Precedent libraries
Post-mortems
Investment professionals coaching
Strategic initiatives
Transaction expertise
Executive presence
Collaboration
AI tools

Location

Toronto
New York

Work Type

Onsite

Experience Level

Managing Director
15 years

Salary/Compensations

USD $275,000 - $460,000

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits
Performance-based incentive plan
401(k) plan
Paid time off
Cutting-edge AI tools
Dedicated learning time
Practical support

About the Company

Joining CPP Investments means joining one of the world’s most admired and respected institutional investors to drive a single mandate: to deliver strong, sustainable returns for generations of Canadians.
With a long-term horizon and global reach, we deploy capital at scale across public and private markets.
Our size, stability, and disciplined investment philosophy allow us to pursue complex opportunities and build enduring partnerships worldwide.
For our people, this means meaningful work with tangible impact, real opportunity, and collaboration with exceptional colleagues who value partnership and performance.
Here, you’ll contribute to outcomes that matter alongside team members committed to excellence and shared success.
Credit Investments currently manages assets in excess of $80.5 billion; investment deal sizes range from $50M to over $1B.
The Credit Investments team has over 147 investment professionals across North America, Europe and Asia.

Equal Opportunity

CPP Investments is committed to equitable access to employment and building a workforce that reflects diverse talent and perspectives.
If you require accommodation at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.
CPP Investments may use AI tools to help screen and assess applicants by analyzing resumes and applications for relevant skills and experience. These tools support, but do not replace, human decision-making.