Houlihan Lokey Announces Two Senior Hires to Continue Expansion of European Financial Sponsors Group
January 17, 2019 at 04:00 am EST
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Houlihan Lokey announced the appointments of Christian Keller and Ann Sharkey to further strengthen the firm’s European Financial Sponsors Group. These appointments follow the recent arrival of Leon Gillespie, who joined the team in London in October to focus on U.K. private equity clients. He joined from Canaccord Genuity, where he was Head of Financial Sponsors Coverage. Based in Frankfurt, Mr. Keller joins the firm as a Managing Director to lead its Financial Sponsors coverage in the DACH region. He joins from HSBC, where he was a Managing Director and Head of Leveraged & Acquisition Finance in Germany.
Houlihan Lokey, Inc. is a global investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, financial restructuring, and financial and valuation advisory. The Company's segments include Corporate Finance (CF), Financial Restructuring (FR), and Financial and Valuation Advisory (FVA). The CF segment provides general financial advisory services in addition to advice on mergers and acquisitions and capital markets offerings. The FR segment provides advice to debtors, creditors and other parties-in-interest in connection with recapitalization/deleveraging transactions implemented both through bankruptcy proceedings and through out-of-court exchanges, consent solicitations or other mechanisms, as well as in distressed mergers and acquisitions and capital markets activities. The FVA segment primarily provides valuations of various assets, including companies, illiquid debt and equity securities, and intellectual property (among other assets and liabilities).
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