Mr. Hardie is a Managing Director in Houlihan Lokey’s Financial Restructuring Group. Since joining the firm, he has managed numerous debtor- and creditor-side restructuring assignments involving businesses in various industries, including energy, gaming, cable operators, mining, mining services, equipment finance, consumer products, and general industrial. Mr. Hardie is based in the firm’s Dallas office.
Prior to joining Houlihan Lokey in February 2000, Mr. Hardie served as Executive Vice President of Marvel Enterprises, Inc., where he led the company’s efforts to acquire Marvel Entertainment Group out of Chapter 11 (including arranging more than $750 million in financings), managed the divestiture of several noncore businesses, managed the company’s motion picture and television studio licensing activities, and served as general counsel. Before that, Mr. Hardie served as Executive Vice President of Fleer/SkyBox International, a $200 million trading card and confectionery subsidiary of MacAndrews & Forbes, where he had general management responsibility for the company’s sales and marketing operations and also served as the company’s general counsel. He also practiced law as an Associate at Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts in New York and Jones Walker in New Orleans, where he specialized in corporate and securities law and was involved in numerous public and private debt and equity securities offerings, asset-based financing transactions, and domestic and international acquisitions.
Mr. Hardie holds a B.S. in economics from the University of Alabama and a J.D. from Vanderbilt University, where he was the Managing Editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review.