Mr. Kramer is a Vice President in Houlihan Lokey’s Corporate
Finance business and Financial Institutions Group, focused on the insurance
sector. He is based in the firm’s New York office.
Before joining Houlihan Lokey, Mr. Kramer was Vice
President of Strategy, Mergers and Acquisitions at AmTrust Financial Services
Inc., a Fortune 500 P&C insurer, where he focused on acquiring insurance
carriers and distributers, including PDP Group, First Nationwide Title Agency,
AmeriHealth, and ANV.
Before joining AmTrust, Mr. Kramer was a Senior Vice
President at Sherman & Company, where he executed multiple M&A
transactions on both the buyside and sellside, including Coverys’ acquisition
of Preferred Professional Insurance Co., the sale of Alliance United to Kemper,
and the sale of iPartners to SNL Financial.
Mr. Kramer began his investment banking career as a
senior banker at Newman Lowther & Associates, a South African-based
boutique focused on cross-border mergers and acquisitions. Prior to investment
banking, Mr. Kramer led the workout of numerous P&C reinsurance
transactions at Centre Reinsurance Co. and started his career at Arthur
Andersen LLP, where he focused on providing audit and consulting services
predominantly to insurers in the U.S. and Bermuda.
Mr. Kramer qualified as a Certified Public Accountant and
holds a B.Com. in Accounting and Finance from McGill University, where he
graduated with distinction.