Mr.
Cleveland is a Managing Director at
Houlihan Lokey. His many financial restructuring
engagements have included representing debtors and creditors in out-of-court
restructurings and bankruptcies.
Mr. Cleveland is based in the firm’s Minneapolis office.
Before
rejoining Houlihan Lokey in 1997, Mr. Cleveland was an Associate in the Chicago law firm of Mayer,
Brown & Platt, where he practiced corporate and securities law and was
involved in numerous public securities offerings, public tender offers, and private repurchase offers for
debt and equity securities, and domestic and international acquisitions. From
1990 to 1992, he was a member of Houlihan Lokey’s Financial Restructuring
Group.
Mr.
Cleveland holds
a
B.S. in Finance
and Business Economics from the University of Southern
California. He also
holds a J.D. magna
cum laude from
the University of Minnesota Law School, where he was a member of the Order of
the Coif.