Mr. Alford is a Managing Director in Houlihan
Lokey’s Industrials Group, with a
primary focus on industrial technologies and capital goods. He has advised on a
wide range of sellside and buyside M&A transactions, fairness and solvency
opinions, corporate valuations, and restructurings. Mr. Alford’s notable recent
transactions include the sales of Metem Corp. to GE, Spheros to Valeo, High
Pressure Equipment Co. to Graco, WellMark to Dover Corp., and B27 to DXP
Enterprises; strategic advisory for SPX resulting in the spinoff of SPX Flow;
and advising on the restructurings of Delphi and Suzlon Energy. He is based in
the firm’s Chicago office.
Before joining Houlihan Lokey, Mr.
Alford was an Associate in M&A at Century Capital Group (formerly Vine
Street Partners) and a Senior Associate at Deutsche Bank’s asset management
subsidiary.
Mr. Alford holds a B.B.A. in Finance from the
University of Iowa and an MBA with concentrations in Analytic Finance,
Accounting, and Economics from the University of Chicago Graduate School of
Business.