Mr.
Weber is a Managing Director in Houlihan Lokey’s Financial Institutions Group (FIG). He is based in the firm’s New York office.
Previously,
Mr. Weber was a Managing Partner at Freeman & Co., an independent advisory
firm focused on providing M&A advisory, capital raising, and other
investment banking advisory services to financial institutions clients, prior
to its acquisition by Houlihan Lokey in 2019.
While
at Freeman & Co., Mr. Weber completed transactions in a wide range of
financial sectors, focusing his efforts on building the firm’s expertise in the
asset management sector as well as helping to launch the firm’s private equity,
transatlantic, and financial technology coverage. He
has advised
on transactions involving some of the largest global financial institutions,
including
Franklin Templeton, BlackRock, AIG, Guggenheim, BNY Mellon, BNP Paribas, Société Générale,
Hamilton Lane, Russell Investments,
and
Man Group.
Prior
to joining Freeman & Co., Mr. Weber was a strategist and institutional
consultant at Schafer Cullen Capital Management. Earlier, he was a Vice
President at Quan-Vest
Consultants, an institutional investment consulting firm, where he was
responsible for screening and monitoring investment managers. Mr. Weber was
also a consultant with Williams, Thacher & Rand, a 401(k) services firm.
Mr.
Weber received a B.A. in Economics from the College of William & Mary and
an MBA from Columbia Business School. He holds the designation of Chartered
Financial Analyst (CFA) from the CFA Institute.