Mr. Schaffer is a Managing Director in Houlihan Lokey’s Industrials Group. He has executed a range of transactions, including sellside and buyside M&A, debt and equity financings, and fairness opinions. Mr. Schaffer is based in the firm’s Chicago office.
Mr. Schaffer’s notable transactions include the sale of 3M’s gas and flame detection business to Teledyne Technologies; the sale of American Pacific Corp. to AE Industrial Partners; the sale of Innocor to Bain Capital; the sale of Aloha Petroleum to Sunoco; the sale of United Oil to Fortress; the sale of Agrifos to Rentech Nitrogen Partners; and financings for Mercer International, PaperWorks, and TNT Crane.
Prior to joining Houlihan Lokey, Mr. Schaffer worked at Macquarie Capital.
Mr. Schaffer holds a B.A. in Economics from Columbia University and an MBA from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University.