Mr. Browne is a Managing Director and Co-Head of Corporate Finance, Europe, at Houlihan Lokey, working with all industry teams as well as the Finance Sponsors and Capital Markets groups. In addition, he is Chairman of Consumer, Europe. Mr. Browne’s original area of specific expertise is in the food and beverage sector, where he has advised on more than 100 completed transactions. He is based in the firm’s London office.
Mr. Browne was previously a Managing Director of McQueen, the London-based investment bank focused on the consumer sectors, which he co-founded in 2002. McQueen grew to be one of the most successful M&A advisors to the European consumer sector prior to its acquisition by Houlihan Lokey in 2015.
Prior to McQueen, Mr. Browne co-founded the Consumer M&A team at HSBC (1999–2002) and was CEO of HSBC Investment Bank in India (1996–1999).
He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in London in 1988 and joined HSBC in 1992.