Mr. Ilhardt is a Managing Director in Houlihan Lokey’s Financial Restructuring Group. He has more than a decade of experience providing transaction and strategic advisory to borrowers, creditors, investors, and other parties in interest to financially distressed situations. Mr. Ilhardt is based in the firm’s Chicago office.
Mr. Ilhardt’s recent company-side experience includes advising Carestream Health on its pre-packaged Chapter 11 restructuring; Brookdale Senior Living on an out-of-court amendment to one of its master lease agreements; Randolph Health on its in-court sale transaction; Adeptus Health in connection with its in-court change of control transaction; Oconee Regional Health System on its in-court change of control transaction; a privately held diagnostic lab company on an out-of-court recapitalization; and the Daughters of Charity Health System on an out-of-court recapitalization. His creditor advisory experience includes advising lender groups to Tower Health, Verity Health, Thomas Health, Hexion, Quorum, Momentive Performance Materials, Henry Ford Village, Kerzner International, and Residential Capital in connection with their in-court sale and restructuring transactions.
Prior to joining Houlihan Lokey in 2010, Mr. Ilhardt was an Associate Consultant for Bain & Company, where he performed analysis and research to support the decision-making of senior management for Fortune 500 and private equity clients across a variety of industries.
Mr. Ilhardt graduated summa cum laude with a B.S.B. in Finance from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.