Mr.
Levine is Co-Head of Houlihan Lokey’s Financial Institutions Group
and a member of
the firm’s Management
Committee.
He
has nearly 30 years of investment banking experience in financial services,
involving more than 125 corporate
transactions,
with a focus on the
mortgage finance industry. He is based in Houlihan Lokey’s Miami office.
Previously,
Mr. Levine was a partner and board member of Milestone Advisors, which was
acquired by Houlihan Lokey in 2012.
Mr.
Levine covers mortgage finance companies and REITs nationally
as
well as depositories in Florida and the Southeast U.S., where he assists
clients in mergers and acquisitions and capital markets initiatives. One of the
most active advisors in the mortgage banking M&A industry, Mr. Levine has
completed more than 125
corporate
transactions in his career and is a frequent lecturer and author in the
financial services and mortgage industry. Representative clients include Apollo
Bank, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Bayview Financial, CIT
Bank, First Tennessee
Bank, MetLife, Inc., New York Mortgage Trust, Royal Bank of Canada, TIAA-CREF,
Washington Mutual, and Wells Fargo Home Loans.
Mr.
Levine also
has specific
experience in the valuation and sale of related financial assets, such as loans
and mortgage servicing rights.
Mr.
Levine holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Florida.