Anthony Gumbiner

Anthony Gumbiner, an Investment Banker and a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature of England, serves as Founder and Chairman of Hallwood, a Monaco and Dallas based family office that has for many years specialized in investing in and providing “rescue financing” to diversified U.S. and U.K. companies.

Over the last 37 years, Mr. Gumbiner has served as Chairman and Chief Executive of companies on the London Stock Exchange, The New York Stock Exchange, The American Stock Exchange and NASDAQ.

Mr. Gumbiner currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of various Hallwood companies, as a Director of BlueCrest Energy Inc, and Damille Investments Limited, a Guernsey closed ended investment company listed on the specialist fund market of the LSE.

He has previously served as Chairman and Chief Executive of publicly held New Fulcrum Investment Trust PLC, an Investment Trust listed on The Stock Exchange, London and Chairman of The Local Radio Company PLC listed on The Stock Exchange, London and as a Director of the International Advisory Board of Southern Methodist University of Dallas.

"Hallwood" is registered as a trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for financial services in the field of oil and gas, energy and real estate.

Current Investments

Hallwood currently has investments in oil and gas, protective building systems for the oil and gas industry, textile products for the US military, real estate investment and development and marketable securities and debt instruments.

Oil and Gas Investments

Hallwood is known in the industry as an innovator and pioneer in the exploration and production of unconventional shale oil and gas contained in onshore fields. Since 1984, it has successfully drilled hundreds of conventional and non-conventional wells and has developed horizontal well drilling technique and creative hydraulic fracturing technology. Over the years we have operated approximately 1,200 oil and gas properties in eleven states and have long history of acquiring, owning, operating and selling oil and gas projects.

In August 2012, Hallwood affiliate BlueCrest Energy Inc. acquired Proved + Probable reserves in the Cook Inlet of Alaska and in 2013; the Cosmopolitan State #1 well was completed.

A reserve report dated January 2015 prepared by independent engineers Ryder Scott shows proved undeveloped (1P) reserves with a PV-10 value of $1.57 billion, proved and probable (2P) reserves with a PV-10 value of $2.2 billion and proved, probable and possible (3P) reserves with a PV-10 value of $4.2 billion. The field will be in production in January 2016. Hallwood owns a fully diluted 22% interest in BlueCrest.

Personal Information

Mr. Gumbiner was born in England in 1945. He is a resident of Monaco and is married with three children, all of whom now live in the US.

After attending an English Grammar School, at age 16 he opted to serve five years as an articled clerk to an English Firm of Solicitors. At that time in England this was an alternative route to becoming a Solicitor in lieu of further education at a university. He obtained First Class Honors in the English Law Society’s Intermediate Examination and after attending the College of Law in Guildford England qualified as a Solicitor in 1968 with distinctions in Company Law and Partnership.

After passing the Law Society Final Examinations but before he was admitted to practice law he spent a year working at Smith Kline Beecham, one of the UK’s leading marketing companies that offered a business training program.

After admission as a lawyer he was employed as an assistant solicitor with a London firm in 1968 and commenced to practice law for his own account as Gumbiner & Co in 1970. The law firm prospered and additional partners joined the firm which specialized in commercial law and corporate litigation.

Major Accomplishments

In 1977, Mr. Gumbiner became aware of an obscure class of old English public unquoted companies. They were public companies without a listing on any stock exchange usually owned by hundreds of shareholders who had inherited the shares from an extended family connection. The shares had limited liquidity and were valued at a low value for estate duty purposes, dividends were minimal. After investigating the opportunity, supported by financing from clients of the firm, he made a series of successful tender offers whilst acting as lawyer, client and merchant bank, this being permitted at that time under prevailing legislation and practice. Hallwood Estates was his second acquisition and in total he acquired five public unquoted companies and founded the Hallwood fortune.

In 1978 Mr. Gumbiner retired from the practice of law to concentrate on developing Hallwood into a financial services company specializing in Corporate Rescue Financing.

Corporate rescue financing involved first using sophisticated research techniques to locate financially distressed, publicly owned corporations, then assisting selected companies with cust