Matthew Manning

Matthew Manning is a Senior Managing Director at M-III Partners, LP (M3 Partners), a New York–based restructuring and advisory firm that dedicates senior professionals to interim management, performance improvement, turnaround/restructuring, transaction advisory, and litigation-support engagements. Manning is a CPA (inactive) with more than 22 years of experience advising corporate and financial clients on operational and financial matters, and his practice centers on capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, accounting, and financial operations.

His career spans several well-known institutions. He began at PricewaterhouseCoopers in the firm's audit practice before moving into its Transaction Services group, doing financial due diligence. He then joined Morgan Stanley, where he worked in both the distressed debt group and the media & telecommunications investment banking group, advising on capital raising and M&A. He subsequently was a research analyst at JEC Capital, sourcing and evaluating equity and credit investments, and has served as interim CFO of a middle-market European technology company (an OTT video-solutions business). He holds a B.S. in Finance and Accounting from Boston College and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

An important correction to the stub data: Manning is categorized in the source stub as an "Angel Investor" writing "Seed Round" checks. No verifiable public source supports this. M3 Partners is a restructuring and operational-advisory firm (clients have included J.C. Penney, Sears, Guitar Center, and Toys "R" Us), and Manning's role is that of a distressed/turnaround advisor and portfolio-monetization professional, not an early-stage startup investor. The "investments" associated with him are advisory engagements and private-equity portfolio asset monetizations rather than venture financings. Founders seeking seed capital are unlikely to find a match here; the sections below are framed to reflect his actual, verifiable work.

• Manning's professional focus is distressed and special situations — advising companies and creditors in restructurings, turnarounds, and bankruptcies — not primary venture investing.
• He is described by the firm as "an experienced investor with a strong background in capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, accounting, and financial operations."
• He is "involved in managing the operations and ultimate asset monetization of a diverse private equity portfolio," indicating a value-realization/workout orientation.
• Where he engages on the buy/sell side, it is through M&A, capital raises, and asset monetization tied to underperforming or restructuring companies rather than seed-stage equity checks.