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Jude Gorman
Founding Partner
New York
jude@collectedstrategies.com

Jude Gorman is a founding partner of Collected Strategies and has seen the business life cycle from a variety of angles. Prior to founding Collected, Jude was a corporate and bankruptcy lawyer at Latham & Watkins LLP and the general counsel and Chief Administrative Officer of Reorg (now Octus). After joining Reorg as one of its first employees, Jude oversaw many aspects of the company’s growth–including marketing, public relations and corporate development–before managing the process leading to Reorg’s sale to Warburg Pincus in 2018. From 2019 to 2023, Jude was a partner and the Chief Operating Officer of Joele Frank. Jude holds a BSBA from Georgetown University and a JD from the Georgetown University Law Center. He is the co-chair of Associate Board of the Madison Square Park Conservancy.

Recent & Notable Assignments
  • Vice Media in its Chapter 11 restructuring
  • Uphealth in its $180 million sale of Cloudbreak to GTCR
  • Curo Group in its Chapter 11 restructuring
  • Regis Corporation in its debt refinancing
  • Red Lobster in its Chapter 11 restructuring
  • Masonite in its $3.9 billion sale to Owens Corning
  • The Cigna Group in its $3.7 billion sale of its Medicare Advantage, Cigna Supplemental Benefits, Medicare Part D and CareAllies businesses to Health Care Service Corporation
Areas of Expertise
  • Restructuring
  • Debt Refinancing
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Shareholder Activism
  • Capital Markets
  • Corporate Advisory
  • Media Relations
  • Investor Relations
  • Private Equity