​Bill Welnhofer Managing Director Emeritus & Retired Partner, Birch Lake Associates, LLC

Over his distinguished career, Bill Welnhofer has helped achieve successful transactions totaling billions of dollars across a wide array of leveraged financings, complex M&A and debt restructurings. Many of these transactions have involved substantial private companies owned either by family offices or private equity. For many years, Bill led the restructuring business in the global investment banking department of Robert W. Baird & Co., which previously acquired his investment banking practice at Starshak Welnhofer & Co., a Chicago-based broker-dealer, that Bill founded and operated for almost two decades. Bill joined Birch Lake from KPMG Corporate Finance, KPMG’s investment banking division in 2016. On February 1, 2023, Bill became Managing Director Emeritus and Retired Partner at Birch Lake.