Stephen P. Lynch is an American businessman and investor. Over the last twenty years, Mr. Lynch has acquired and managed distressed assets in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Russia, and Ukraine. He specializes in securing cross-border collaboration on transactions and settlements around special situations and corporate conflicts. Lynch is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Lynch has worked closely with the US Department of The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to acquire and de-Russify important industrial assets in U.S. partner nations. For example, in 2022, he worked with Swiss administrators and regulators as he led the 2022 acquisition and de-Russification of U.S.-sanctioned Sberbank Switzerland AG. This resulted in the creation of TradeX Bank, the only Swiss-American private bank in Switzerland. Mr. Lynch served on the board of TradeX Bank following the acquisition.

In addition, in 2007, he worked with Deutsche Bank and a consortium of foreign non-Russian investors to acquire select non-core assets of Yukos Oil, which was then Russia’s largest energy company. During the same year, he also submitted the winning bid to de-Russify part of Yukos Finance.

Mr. Lynch began his career at Credit Suisse First Boston and served in the U.S. Peace Corps in its inaugural class in Russia. He received his MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, a BA from Boston University.

Mr. Lynch grew up in New York, where his father, uncle and brother were all New York City police officers. In his free time, he enjoys competing in ultra long Nordic ski competitions.