Ms. Muller is a Managing Director and Co-Head of Houlihan Lokey’s Special Committee Advisory and Fairness and Solvency Opinions practices. She is also a member of the firm’s Management Committee and Financial and Valuation Advisory Executive Committee. Ms. Muller is based in the firm’s San Francisco office.
Ms. Muller is experienced in corporate governance, particularly in related-party transactions, and specializes in fairness, solvency, and other transaction-based valuation opinions. Her clients are typically boards of directors, special committees, and other fiduciaries and have included Google, Broadcom, NVIDIA, Liberty Media, Dunn-Edwards Paints, Dropbox, Cal-Maine Foods, Teekay LNG, Flextronics International, Dell, and VMware.
Ms. Muller speaks frequently at corporate and legal symposiums and seminars on corporate finance and valuation and provides commentary in various business publications, including The Deal, The American Lawyer, and Mergermarket. Recently, she has spoken at the National M&A Institute, the American Bar Association (ABA), and the Practising Law Institute and has guest lectured at Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, and the UC Berkeley School of Law, among other institutions, on the role of financial advisors in M&A transactions. Ms. Muller also speaks regularly on the topic of increasing the participation of women in M&A. She co-founded and chaired the ABA’s Women in M&A Subcommittee and received the ABA 2021 Women in M&A Leadership Award.
Ms. Muller is also a board member of the University of Pennsylvania Institute for Law and Economics and served as Vice Chair of the ABA’s M&A Committee.
Before joining Houlihan Lokey, Ms. Muller was a senior consultant at both Tucker Alan and Peterson Consulting, where she performed litigation consulting services that included analyzing economic damages for trial purposes.
Ms. Muller graduated cum laude with a B.A. in Mathematics/Economics from Claremont McKenna College.