About
pablo bonjour
Founder & CEO
Corporate Restructuring & Turnaround CEO/CRO| Bankruptcy Navigation & Financial Strategist
Proven Restructuring & Turnaround leader with 25+ years driving operational and financial recoveries for complex special-situation engagements across domestic and international clients.
SUMMARY
As the Founder and CEO of VERITAS Restructuring Group, Pablo Bonjour is a recognized architect of middle-market recovery and corporate stabilization. He specializes in guiding distressed enterprises through the complexities of Chapter 11, often serving as a Chief Restructuring Officer (CRO) to lead critical stakeholder negotiations and preserve enterprise value under duress.
He has represented clients across various industries which include but are not limited to Oil & Gas, datacenters, agriculture, cryptocurrency, manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, and consumer products.
With a career initially forged at Lehman Brothers and Oppenheimer, Pablo brings a sophisticated institutional perspective to the middle market. His recent mandates have addressed novel challenges in emerging fields like Cryptocurrency—where he has managed complex fiduciary and regulatory issues—alongside deep-rooted expertise in Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, and Healthcare. Whether facilitating §363 asset sales or architecting confirmed exit plans, Pablo remains a pivotal advisor for firms navigating the “recalibration” of the modern economy.
CORE EXPERTISE
- Restructuring/Turnaround Management & Strategy
- Bankruptcy Strategy & Financial Advisory
- Interim leadership
- Liquidity & cash management
- Stakeholder negotiations
- Litigation Management
- M&A / exits
KEY METRICS
- 25+ years of executive and advisory experience across 50 states and internationally
- CRO of Texas A&M RELLIS Campus DataCenter estimated completed build development $950 million project
- Chapter 11 Trustee of Electrical Infrastructure Entity
- CRO of national Construction & Remediation Business focused on commercial $10mm-$100MM+ projects historically
- Served as Wind Down Manager to Oil & Gas, Engineering, etc., businesses
RECENT ENGAGEMENT
RELLIS CAMPUS DATA & RESEARCH CENTER
Challenge: Primary investor withdrew from Datacenter project forcing the company into Bankruptcy due to Financial and operational distress at an $150M+ project on the Texas A&M University’s RELLIS Campus, a 45,000-square-foot hyperscale data center complex for high-performance computing (HPC), AI research, cloud services, and data analytics, targeting clients in education, defense, and energy sectors.
Action: Served as CRO, acquired critical Debtor-In-Possession funds allowing the estate to run a sales process while interfacing with secured lenders Chapter 11 reorganization, including asset valuation, creditor negotiations, and exploration of sales or mergers. Provided consulting on risk mitigation, operational scaling, and preservation of intellectual property and partially built facilities. Created collateral documents and presentations for stakeholders, including potential buyers like major tech firms (e.g., Google affiliates). Steward of building construction and obtained critical insurance for project
Result: Identified various potential purchasers while maintaining the doors open and avoiding a chapter 7 conversion
INDUSTRIES
- Oil & gas
- Datacenters,
- Agriculture/food processing
- Cryptocurrency
- Manufacturing & distribution
- Healthcare
- Consumer products
- Transportation.
CREDENTIALS
- B.B.A., Finance — University of Houston
- MBA — Texas A&M International University
- Former senior roles at Lehman Brothers and Oppenheimer & Co.
Office Hours
Mon-Fri - 8:30 am to 5:30 pm
Saturday - 09:00 am to 12:00 pm
Holidays - Closed
Contact Info
717 Texas Ave., 12th Floor
Houston, TX 77002
713-255-2099
info@vrg.co