Mr. Luria has recently served as Chief Restructuring Officer of AU Health System (academic medical center in Augusta, GA affiliated with the Medical College of Georgia). In addition, Mr. Luria has also served as Chief Restructuring Officer of Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp. (major independent originator of residential mortgages), Louisiana Medical Center & Heart Hospital (acute care hospital), Unipharma LLC (pharmaceutical manufacturer), Sagecrest Finance LLC (financial services focused hedge fund), Ocala Funding, LLC (commercial paper lender), PBI Regional Medical Center (acute care hospital), and Sharity Ministries (evangelical healthcare sharing ministry). Mr. Luria has served as liquidating trustee of numerous entities including Mortgage Lenders Network USA and Orthodontic Centers of America. In addition, Mr. Luria has sat on numerous boards of directors including Spectrum Diagnostic Imaging, LLC (operator of diagnostic imaging centers) and Stampede Meats, Inc (large domestic meat processors). Mr. Luria has also served in various capacities in connection with the run-off and orderly wind-down of a number of high profile hedge funds and private equity funds.
Before joining SOLIC Capital Advisors (and its predecessors), Mr. Luria served as President of BMJ Medical Management, Inc. (NASDAQ: BONS), an operator of ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers and physician practices, where he had previously served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel. While at BMJ, he oversaw the company's liquidation efforts that realized a 100% recovery to its Senior Secured Lenders. Prior to BMJ, he was engaged in the private practice of law at the firm of Jones Day Reavis & Pogue. Mr. Luria’s practice involved the representation of venture capital and leverage buyout funds in connection with their portfolio investments, related add-on acquisitions and subsequent divestiture transactions. In addition, he was involved in numerous securities offerings ranging from global initial public offerings to private placements.
Mr. Luria received his Juris Doctorate from the Boston University School of Law where he served on the Boston University Law Review and his Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds an AIRA certification as a Certified Insolvency & Restructuring Advisor. Mr. Luria is also FINRA Series 63 and 79 licensed.
