Ms. Shah is a Managing Director in Houlihan Lokey’s Capital Solutions Group. Her primary responsibilities include working with the firm’s clients to raise debt and equity capital to support refinancings, recapitalizations, restructurings, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, and growth capital initiatives, as well as advising companies on a wide range of capital structure matters. Ms. Shah is based in the firm’s New York office.
Prior to joining Houlihan Lokey, Ms. Shah was at BMO Capital Markets, where she was a senior member of the Debt Capital Markets Group, focused on sourcing, structuring, and executing both public and private leverage loan and high-yield transactions in a variety of industries, including but not limited to healthcare and energy. Prior to joining BMO Capital Markets, Ms. Shah was a Vice President at CIBC World Markets/Oppenheimer, where she focused on structuring and executing leverage finance transactions for leading financial sponsors.
Earlier, Ms. Shah was at Wells Fargo, where she focused on providing asset-based loans for middle-market companies. She began her career at Deutsche Bank in the Financial Sponsors Group.
Ms. Shah holds a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance and minors in Economics and Art History from the University of Southern California.