Mr. Weber is a Managing Director in Houlihan Lokey’s Capital Solutions Group. With more than two decades of experience in corporate finance, he specializes in capital markets, sponsor finance, and the private equity industry. Mr. Weber has particularly strong expertise in leveraged and acquisition finance and is responsible for raising debt capital to support leveraged buyouts, acquisitions, refinancings, recapitalizations, buy-and-build growth capital, and restructurings. He is based in the firm’s Frankfurt office.
Since becoming Head of Sponsor Finance, DACH, in 2021, Mr. Weber’s team has become a leading debt advisory team in the DACH region and has advised on well over 100 transactions in the past four years across various industries and a wide range of deal situations.
Previously, Mr. Weber was a Managing Director at GCA Altium, which was acquired by Houlihan Lokey in 2021. Before that, he was Vice President of DC Advisory’s European Debt Advisory team, which he joined in 2006 as one of the first active professionals in debt advisory in the DACH region. Mr. Weber gained extensive banking and corporate finance experience at Helaba Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen and Baden-Württembergische Bank.
Mr. Weber holds an M.A. in Banking and Finance from the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. In addition to his focus on financing transactions in the DACH region, he developed Houlihan Lokey’s MidCapMonitor in 2010 and has been responsible for its publication ever since. Mr. Weber regularly discusses the LBO market in various podcasts and provides quotes to the German media.