Joe Rodgers

Managing Director, atlanta

Joe Rodgers joined KPMG LLP in 2011 with more than 20 years of professional experience through a unique combination of finance, investment banking, advisory, and turnarounds. Joe serves as a managing director and leads the Capital Advisory practice nationally. His focus is providing value to public and private clients in three areas: capital structure advisory, capital raises of either existing debt, new debt, junior capital or equity, and debt restructurings.

Joe helped build a nationally recognized finance business from zero assets to US$1 billion in just over one year—primarily focused on structured finance transactions to support LBOs, recapitalizations, and refinancings of middle market companies.

Joe has extensive experience in both cash flow lending (both 1st lien and 2nd lien) and asset-based lending, as well as mezzanine and equity investments in corporate finance. Sourced, structured, negotiated, and actively participated in overseeing the underwriting and portfolio management of debt transactions. Transaction experience includes refinancings, recapitalizations, M&A, LBOs, MBOs, DIPs and exits.

Prior to joining KPMG, he was a Managing Director with an investment banking firm focused on transportation and logistics and prior to that held senior positions with various financial institutions in both sourcing and executing corporate finance transactions.

Joe holds a Bachelor of Science in finance and marketing from Florida State University.