Mr.
Tracey is a Managing
Director in Houlihan Lokey’s Financial
Institutions Group. He
is based in the firm’s London office.
He
was a Director with Quayle Munro prior to its acquisition by Houlihan Lokey in
2018. Mr. Tracey joined
Quayle Munro in 2014 from Canaccord (formerly Hawkpoint), where he focused on
key verticals of the financial services industry, advising businesses involved
in principal risk taking, advice,
product distribution,
software, services,
and
data within lending
(banking,
credit and speciality finance, consumer credit, property finance, SME finance,
asset and vehicle finance,
and
NPLs); insurance
(general lines
and life assurance);
asset and
wealth management;
and financial markets.
Mr.
Tracey’s clients have included private and public companies, private
equity and financial investors, founders, and
entrepreneurs.
Prior to joining Houlihan Lokey, he advised on a wide range of international
corporate finance
transactions,
such as the sales
of BlueStep Bank to EQT; Voogd & Voogd to the
Rothschild Group;
Target Group to
Tech Mahindra
Ltd; Lowell Group Ltd to TDR Capital; MCS
to Cerberus
Capital Management; Singers Asset Finance to Shawbrook
Bank; Marlin Financial Group to Cabot Credit Management;
Ocean
Finance to OneSavings
Bank/Think
Money; and ULTIMO to B2 Holding Group; as well as the
merger of Windsor
Ltd and
Hyperion
Insurance Group Ltd.
He
has also advised on the acquisitions of Ascot Lloyd via its merger with Bellpenny; GetBack (for
a consortium of investment funds,
including
Abris Capital
Partners); Cabot
Credit Management
Ltd for
Encore Capital
Group and
J.C.
Flowers & Co; and
three transactions for Chesnara
plc: Save
& Prosper
Insurance Ltd and
Direct Line Life
Insurance in
the UK and Waard Group in the Netherlands, including associated debt and equity
raisings. Mr.
Tracey’s fundraising experience includes acting for Bellpenny on raising finance from Ares
Management; WeSwap
(investment from Ascot Capital
Partners); Succession Holdings Ltd (from Inflexion Private Equity); Capquest (from
TowerBrook
Capital Partners), Aldermore Bank; and the Kaupthing Bank estate.
Mr.
Tracey holds a BSc
(Hons) in Mathematics from
Durham
University.