Mr.
Gilmour is a Senior Vice President in Houlihan Lokey’s
Consumer, Food & Retail Group. He has worked on a variety of engagements,
including sellside
and buyside
merger and acquisition transactions, private placements, and senior debt
financings. Recent transactions include the sale of AmeriQual
Group to Celerant
Capital; Natural Food Holdings to Perdue Farms; Kettle Cuisine to Kainos
Capital; L&L
Foods to Peacock Engineering Co.; Henry H. Ottens Manufacturing Co., Inc. to International
Flavors & Flagrances Inc.; Thanasi Foods to Encore Consumer Capital; Le Groupe Multibar
Inc. to Nellson
Nutraceutical LLC; Flagstone Foods to TreeHouse Foods; Van’s Natural Foods to The
Hillshire Brands Co.; and SensoryEffects to
Balchem Corp. Mr. Gilmour is based in the firm’s Chicago office.
Prior
to joining Houlihan Lokey,
Mr. Gilmour was an Associate at Republic Partners, a middle-market investment
bank. He began his career as an Analyst in BMO Capital Markets’ Chicago office.
Mr.
Gilmour holds a B.B.A.
in Finance from the Henry B. Tippie
College of Business at the University of Iowa.