Mr.
McDonald joined Houlihan Lokey in 2002 and is a founding member of the firm’s
Business Services Group. During his more than two-decade career in investment
banking, Mr. McDonald has provided M&A advice to publicly traded and
privately held companies in almost all major sectors of the economy. He is based in Houlihan Lokey's New York office.
Mr.
McDonald’s recent business services transaction experience includes advising
CDI Corp.
(NYSE:CDI) in its sale to AE Industrial Partners; Angelica Corp. in its sale to
KKR; Randall-Reilly in its sale to
Aurora Capital Group; American
Utility
Management in its sale to RealPage,
Inc.; Kroll
Ontrack in
its sale to LDiscovery; CAPS
Payroll
in its sale to Cast & Crew; System One in its sale to Thomas H. Lee
Partners; Merit
Service
Solutions in its sale to Eureka Growth Capital; Hoffman Southwest Corp. in its sale to ORIX
Capital Partners;
AVI-SPL
in its sale to H.I.G. Capital; Intelius in
its sale to H.I.G. Capital;
Source4Teachers
in its sale to Nautic Partners; Merrill Corp. in the sale of its Legal Solutions
business to DTI; Harland
Clarke
Holdings Corp. in the sale of its Faneuil business unit to ALJ Regional
Holdings, Inc.; HHA
Services
in its sale to ABM Industries; and PC Helps in its sale to Baird Capital
Partners.
Before
joining Houlihan Lokey, Mr. McDonald was a Vice President in the Mergers and
Acquisitions Group at Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Mr.
McDonald received an A.B. magna cum laude from Georgetown
University, an M.A. with distinction from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced
International Studies at The Johns Hopkins University, and an MBA from INSEAD.