Mr. Williams is a Vice President in Houlihan Lokey’s Business Services Group, where he focuses on the power and utility services sector. His responsibilities include advising on sellside and buyside M&A transactions, assessing strategic alternatives, and providing other financial advisory services. Mr. Williams is based in the firm’s Los Angeles office.
Prior to joining Houlihan Lokey, Mr. Williams was a member of Evercore’s Technology Group in New York, where he focused primarily on advising clients in industries such as industrial technology and services as well as software. Before his banking career, he was a corporate attorney at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.
Mr. Williams’ transaction experience includes advising Berkshire Partners on its acquisition of Electric Power Engineers; UTC on its combination with Raytheon; Carrier Global and Otis Worldwide on their respective spinoffs from UTC and subsequent financing transactions; Broadcom on the sale of its Cyber Security Services business to Accenture; athenahealth on its sale to Bain and Hellman & Friedman; II-VI on its equity investment from Bain and acquisition of Coherent; Lumileds on its comprehensive restructuring; Edgewell on various financing transactions; Eagle Materials on the planned separation of its Heavy and Light businesses; Broadcom on its acquisition of Symantec’s Enterprise Security business; Fortive on its acquisition of Provation; and Salesforce on its acquisition of Slack.
Mr. Williams holds a B.A. in Political Science (with honors) from Amherst College, where he served as the college’s first two-term student body president. Additionally, he holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he graduated as a James Kent Scholar and Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. While there, Mr. Williams served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Law Review.
Mr. Williams serves on the Junior Leadership Board of Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO), the Executive Committee of the Amherst College Society of Alumni, and the American Bar Association’s M&A Committee. He is also the Chair of the Africa M&A Project (AMAP).