Mr. Smith is a Managing Director in Houlihan Lokey’s Financial and Valuation Advisory business, focused on client relationships and business development efforts as part of the firm’s overall growth objectives. As part of Houlihan Lokey’s Financial and Valuation Advisory Healthcare leadership team, he focuses on growing the firm’s healthcare industry reach through various client and market initiatives. With more than 20 years of experience serving clients in the U.S. and U.K. as well as internationally, Mr. Smith has led several high-profile client engagements and firm accounts throughout his career. He is based in the firm’s Dallas office.
Mr. Smith formerly led Houlihan Lokey’s global Accounting and Financial Reporting Advisory service offering as part of the firm’s Transaction Advisory Services practice. Throughout his career, he has been dedicated to providing corporate and financial sponsor clients with accounting and financial reporting advisory services in conjunction with private and public market M&A, strategic alliances, divestitures, operational integration, and financial restructurings, as well as accessing the global capital markets through private and public debt and equity raises.
Mr. Smith holds a B.S. in Finance and Accounting from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, where he graduated with distinction. He is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in the states of Illinois and Tennessee.