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HOULIHAN LOKEY ANNOUNCES OFFICER-LEVEL PROMOTIONS

2012-05-16T00:00:00-04:00

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LOS ANGELES – May 16, 2012 – Houlihan Lokey, an international investment bank, today announced the following promotions:

Managing Director

Gijs de Reuver – Financial Restructuring
William Hood – Corporate Finance
Gavin Kagan – Financial Restructuring
Manuel Martinez-Fidalgo – Financial Restructuring
Reid Snellenbarger – Financial Restructuring
Todd Strassman – Financial Advisory Services

Director
Oscar Aarts – Financial Advisory Services
Michael Boone – Financial Restructuring
Helen Cheng – Financial Advisory Services
Michael Coster – Corporate Finance
Luca Crenna – Corporate Finance
Christopher Foley – Financial Restructuring
Daniel Hoverman – Corporate Finance
Ranon Kent – Corporate Finance
Geoffrey Ligibel – Corporate Finance
Andrew Proctor – Financial Advisory Services
Thomas Seward – Financial Restructuring
John Song – Corporate Finance
Craig Tessimond – Corporate Finance
Terry Treemarcki – Financial Advisory Services
Dimitar Voukadinov – Financial Restructuring
David Wang – Corporate Finance
Malte Wulfetange – Financial Restructuring

Senior Vice President
Michael Bett – Financial Advisory Services
Matthew Bowersox – Corporate Finance
Hal Byer – Financial Sponsors Coverage
Nathan Court – Financial Restructuring
Dennis Kawachi – Corporate Finance
Timothy Larsen – Corporate Finance
Jeffrey Lewis – Financial Restructuring
Dan O’Donnell – Financial Advisory Services
Alexey Raskin – Financial Restructuring
Arun Reddy – Financial Restructuring
Jan Reichenbach – Financial Advisory Services

Vice President
Randolph Chao – Corporate Finance
Stephan Chischportich – Financial Restructuring
Geoffrey Coutts – Financial Restructuring
Anne Davey – Financial Restructuring
Greg Demory – Corporate Finance
Jason Feintuch – Financial Restructuring
Karan Garg – Corporate Finance
Christopher Glad – Financial Advisory Services
Benjamin Gurvitz – Financial Restructuring
Michael Hoagberg – Corporate Finance
Yuka Itami – Financial Advisory Services
Harry Kang – Corporate Finance
Douglas Keller – Corporate Finance
Michael Leyba – Financial Advisory Services
Jorge Villen – Financial Restructuring
Michael Repka – Corporate Finance
Javier Restrepo – Financial Restructuring
Austin Smith – Financial Advisory Services
Elisabeth Wadsworth – Financial Restructuring

Administrative
Michael Sharp – Vice President
Synthia Rios – Administrative Vice President

“Please join me in congratulating our colleagues on these well-deserved promotions,” said Scott Beiser, Co-Chief Executive Officer of Houlihan Lokey. “They have all distinguished themselves in personally enhancing our franchise value through their hard work and stellar performance.”

ISS-MAG Discusses SEC’s Call for More Fair Value Disclosures in an Interview with Brian Bouchard

2012-05-07T00:00:00-04:00

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A recent article by ISS-MAG.com states that banks that issue structured notes may soon have some extra work to do when preparing their sales prospectuses. The Securities and Exchange Commission would like for banks to disclose the difference between the offering price for the structured notes and their actual fair value—a value which reflects the actual price investors would expect to receive if the structured notes were sold in the secondary market right after they were bought. Brian Bouchard, Vice President in Houlihan Lokey’s Financial Advisory Services business, comments: "The difference between the fair value and offering price could be substantial due to the highly illiquid and complex nature of these investments."

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Houlihan Lokey Hires Growth Equity Expert Joshua Tanzer to Help Extend Investor Relationship Universe for Private Companies

2012-05-02T00:00:00-04:00

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LOS ANGELES – May 2, 2012—Houlihan Lokey, an international investment bank, today announced that Joshua Tanzer has joined the firm as Managing Director and Head of the Private Growth Equity Capital practice. In this capacity, he will help raise growth capital for private companies in mid-stage to late-stage (mezzanine), profitable or near-term profitable, as well as pre-IPO rounds. In the span of his 25-plus year career, Mr. Tanzer has produced more than $5 billion of venture gains for investors from transactions he has agented.

“Equity markets have begun to show some signs of improvement in the first quarter of 2012 with investors demonstrating a renewed sense of confidence,” said Scott Adelson, Senior Managing Director and Global Co-Head of Corporate Finance. “Josh brings a wealth of experience working with fund managers and institutional investors in raising growth equity for private companies. We’re delighted to welcome him to the team as we continue to expand our investor relationship universe for clients across all industries and sectors.”

“Houlihan Lokey has a proven track record of engineering and executing financings in a variety of market conditions,” commented Mr. Tanzer. “I look forward to leveraging my expertise in growth equity transactions to provide clients with creative and innovative solutions that help them achieve their strategic and financial objectives.”

Previously, Mr. Tanzer served as a managing director in Morgan Keegan’s Technology Group, where he advised on more than $200 million in growth equity transactions. Prior, he was a managing director at Lazard Freres & Co., where he raised $175 million of private equity capital for Virgin America, the largest amount of private equity raised for a de novo airline. Before joining Lazard, he founded and operated Principia Capital Group, focused on clients in the technology and digital media industries. Principia was responsible for raising Vonage Holdings’ private equity capital and also sold the wireless data division of Vivendi Universal, Moviso. Prior to forming Principia, he was global head of Private Equity for CSFB's Technology Group (formerly DMG Tech Group). The group completed 85 transactions and raised approximately $5.4 billion.

Mr. Tanzer is a Certified Management Accountant and received a B.S. in accounting from the University of Denver. He currently serves on the Board of P.S. Arts, an arts education program for Title 1 schools in Los Angeles.

Houlihan Lokey Bankers Honored with ’40 Under 40’ Recognition Awards

2012-04-25T00:00:00-04:00

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Houlihan Lokey, an international investment bank, is pleased to announce that three of the firm’s senior bankers have been named winners of the 2012 ‘40 Under 40’ M&A Advisor Recognition Awards. The awards celebrate the M&A, financing and turnaround professionals who have reached a significant level of success in the industry while still under the age of 40.

To learn more about the winners’ accomplishments and backgrounds click on the links below.


Eastern Region Gavin Kagan	Central Region Reid Snellenbarger	Western Region David Wang

Eastern Region
Gavin Kagan – Mr. Kagan is a Managing Director in Houlihan Lokey’s New York office. He has over 14 years of investment banking experience, including corporate restructurings, M&A and the issuance of both public and private debt and equity securities.

Central Region
Reid Snellenbarger – Mr. Snellenbarger is a Managing Director in Houlihan Lokey’s Financial Restructuring Group and a senior member of the firm-wide Real Estate Strategic Advisory practice. For over a decade, he has specialized in financings, restructurings, and mergers and acquisitions in the distressed and bankrupt environment, with a focus on the real estate sector. He has helped major and middle-market companies, private equity sponsors, distressed investors, creditors and other constituents.

Western Region
David Wang – Mr. Wang is a Senior Vice President in Houlihan Lokey’s Los Angeles office, where he is a member of the firm’s Corporate Finance business. As a member of the Debt Capital Markets practice, he focuses on raising senior, mezzanine debt and private equity capital for leveraged buyouts, acquisition financings as well as recapitalizations and restructurings for the firm’s clients across all industry sectors.

In addition, Houlihan Lokey bankers Eric Winthrop, Robert Rosenberg, Matthew Mazzucchi and Mark Dufilho were named finalists for the 2012 Awards.

HOULIHAN LOKEY ACTS AS FINANCIAL ADVISOR TO APPLIED EXTRUSION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

2012-04-05T00:00:00-04:00

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Houlihan Lokey was recently announced as financial advisor to Applied Extrusion Technologies, Inc. (AET Films) in their agreement to be acquired by Taghleef Industries.

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HOULIHAN LOKEY ANNOUNCED AS FINANCIAL ADVISOR IN CONNECTION WITH THE ACQUISITION OF AIRBORNE, INC.

2012-04-02T00:00:00-04:00

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Houlihan Lokey was recently announced as financial advisor to Schiff Nutrition International, Inc. in their recent strategic acquisition.

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HOULIHAN LOKEY ANNOUNCED AS FINANCIAL ADVISOR TO JPS INDUSTRIES, INC.

2012-03-16T00:00:00-04:00

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Houlihan Lokey was recently announced as financial advisor to JPS Industries, Inc., engaged to help explore potential strategic alternatives for the company.

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