Mr. Smith is a Senior Vice President in Houlihan Lokey's Healthcare Group. He has more than two decades of experience executing a variety of transactions for clients in the healthcare sector, including mergers and acquisitions, strategic advisory assignments, and public and private financings. He is based in the firm's New York office.
Before rejoining Houlihan Lokey, Mr. Smith was a Director at JMP Securities, where he focused on M&A transactions, private financings, initial public offerings, and follow-on equity offerings for companies in the healthcare services and biopharmaceutical sectors. Prior to JMP Securities, he was a Vice President in Houlihan Lokey's Financial and Valuation Advisory business, where he was responsible for mergers and acquisitions, special committee representation, providing fairness and solvency opinions, and valuing public and private securities and closely held companies.
Mr. Smith holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Maryland and an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business, where he was awarded the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management merit fellowship.