Mr. Cleveland is a Managing Director in Houlihan Lokey’s Minneapolis office. His many financial restructuring engagements have included representing debtors and creditors in out-of-court restructurings and bankruptcies.

Before rejoining Houlihan Lokey in 1997, Mr. Cleveland was an associate in the Chicago law firm of Mayer, Brown & Platt, where he practiced corporate and securities law and was involved in numerous public securities offerings, public tender offers and private repurchase offers for debt and equity securities, and domestic and international acquisitions. From 1990 to 1992, he was a member of Houlihan Lokey’s Financial Restructuring Group.

Mr. Cleveland received a B.S. in finance and business economics from the University of Southern California. He earned a J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Minnesota Law School, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif. He is registered with FINRA as a General Securities Representative (Series 7 and 63) and a Limited Representative – Investment Banking (Series 79).