Mr. Murphy is a Managing Director and Head of Houlihan Lokey’s Transaction Advisory Services practice. He has more than two decades of experience working with financial sponsors and corporate management teams in the consumer, industrials, media, technology, and financial services sectors. Mr. Murphy is based in the firm’s Dallas office.
Mr. Murphy leads teams providing buyside and sellside accounting, financial, data and analytics, and tax diligence services to private equity clients. His teams focus on identifying value-creation opportunities and providing clients with critical insights at deal speed, which translates into greater confidence in clients’ decisions to proceed with or abandon the transaction. Prior to joining Houlihan Lokey, Mr. Murphy had a 20-year tenure as a Deal Advisory Principal at KPMG, personally leading the accounts of several of KPMG’s largest, global private equity clients.
Mr. Murphy is a continuing guest lecturer at the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. He is a board member for the Tackle Tomorrow Foundation.
Mr. Murphy holds a B.B.A. in Finance from Texas A&M University and an M.S. in Finance from the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University.