Mr. Lavelle is a Senior Advisor at Houlihan Lokey. In this role, he provides counsel and insight on topics critical to the success of client mandates. Mr. Lavelle has worked in investment banking for more than 35 years and is equally comfortable with domestic as well as cross-border transactions. Over his career, he has advised on approximately 200 consummated transactions and was a member of the firm’s global Management Committee for many years. He is based in the firm’s Dallas office.
For the preponderance of his 20-plus-year career at Houlihan Lokey, Mr. Lavelle served as a Managing Director in both New York and Dallas. For more than 15 years, he co-led the firm’s global Industrials Group, which comprises over 175 banking professionals across 12+ subsectors, including metals, automotive, aerospace, industrial distribution, industrials, and environmental technologies. Over his career, Mr. Lavelle has advised on approximately 200 consummated transactions. For the four years post his co-head role, he was Head of Corporate Coverage, Industrials. In that role, Mr. Lavelle worked particularly closely with very large global industrial corporations and their senior leadership teams as they developed and executed shareholder value-creation strategies.
Mr. Lavelle joined Houlihan Lokey in 2004 from The Nassau Group, a corporate strategy and M&A advisory firm that he founded and managed for more than 12 years. His client assignments have ranged from integrated strategic advisory and proactive buyside mandates for large, strategic acquirers to complicated sellside/corporate divestiture carve-outs.
Before The Nassau Group, Mr. Lavelle spent five years at Baring Brothers & Co. in New York and London and started his career at Booz Allen & Hamilton in New York.
For many years, Mr. Lavelle has been highly involved with various civic and charitable organizations, including Smile Train, Cristo Rey High Schools, Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos, and Family Legacy Missions.
Mr. Lavelle graduated cum laude with an A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.