Ms.
Muller is a Managing Director and Co-Head
of Houlihan
Lokey’s Special Committee and Fairness Opinion and Solvency Opinion practices.
She is also a member of the firm’s Technical Standards Committee, a Vice
Chair of the American Bar Association’s M&A Committee, and a board member
of the University of Pennsylvania Institute for Law and Economics. Ms. Muller is based in the firm's San Francisco and New York offices.
Ms.
Muller is experienced in business and securities valuations and corporate governance and specializes
in fairness, solvency, and other transaction-based opinions. Her clients are
typically boards of directors, special committees, and other fiduciaries and
have included Google,
Broadcom
Corp., NVIDIA Corp., Liberty
Media, Flextronics
International, and VMware, Inc.
Ms.
Muller speaks frequently at corporate and legal symposiums and seminars on
corporate finance and valuation, and she provides commentary in various
business publications. Recently, she has spoken at the National Institute on
Negotiating Business Acquisitions, the Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania, and the American
Bar Association,
and has guest lectured at Harvard Law School and the UC Berkeley School of Law,
among other institutions, on the role of the financial advisor in M&A transactions. Ms.
Muller also speaks regularly on the topic of increasing the level of
participation of women in M&A and is the Chair of the American Bar
Association’s Women in M&A Task Force.
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.