Mr. Dorst is a Managing Director and Liability Management practice leader in Houlihan Lokey’s Financial Restructuring Group. He has more than three decades of experience in the debt capital markets providing balance sheet management solutions to issuers and leading the structuring and execution of transactions, including cash tender offers, exchange offers, and consent solicitations. Mr. Dorst is based in the firm’s New York office.
Mr. Dorst brings global transaction experience in high-yield, leveraged loans, convertible securities, and investment-grade and emerging-markets debt. He has represented such issuers as Affinion, Bausch Health, Carlson Travel, CBS, CEDC, Dex One, Dominican Republic, EOG Resources, Hutchinson Technologies, KEPCO, Luckin Coffee, PEMEX, PetSmart, Republic of Argentina, Republic of Colombia, U.S. Steel, and Walmart.
Prior to joining Houlihan Lokey, Mr. Dorst was an Executive Director and Co-Head of the Liability Management Group at UBS. Before UBS, he held similar positions at Credit Suisse First Boston and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Mr. Dorst started his career at Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co. in the Financial Institutions Division.
In addition, Mr. Dorst is the Corporate Action Advisor to The Credit Roundtable, a bondholder advocacy organization comprising more than 45 institutional investors in the U.S. Investment Grade marketplace. He has also been a presenter and conference panelist for the European Leveraged Finance Association and the Canadian Bond Investor’s Association. Mr. Dorst is also the firm’s principal representative to the Emerging Markets Trade Association.
Mr. Dorst holds a B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics from Bucknell University.