Mr. Hughes is a Managing Director in Houlihan Lokey’s Global
Automotive and Truck Coverage practice. He has extensive industry experience
working with many of the largest OEMs and Tier I suppliers in the world,
including assignments on behalf of Johnson Controls, Federal Mogul, Delphi
Automotive, Cooper-Standard Automotive, Meritor, Bridgestone Americas, Hayes
Lemmerz, Yinyi Group, ASIMCO Technologies, Avon Automotive Holdings, J.L.
French, Mark IV Industries, Keystone Powdered Metal Company, and Sage
Automotive Interiors, as well as working on behalf of creditors in General
Motors, Exide Technologies, Visteon, Accuride Corp., Remy International, TI
Automotive, and Tower Automotive, among others. His transaction experience
spans mergers and acquisitions, corporate divestitures, financial
restructurings, fairness opinions, and private placements of debt and equity. Mr. Hughes is based in the firm’s Chicago office.
Before joining Houlihan Lokey, Mr.
Hughes worked with Bankers Trust (now Deutsche Bank AG), where he advised on
mergers and acquisitions and raised capital in the high-yield bond and
syndicated leveraged loan markets for industrial clients.
Mr. Hughes graduated with honors from
the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, receiving an MBA in
Finance and Accounting and holds a bachelor’s degree in Business from the
University of Iowa.