Youmna Salameh

Managing Director

Ms. Salameh is a Managing Director in Houlihan Lokey’s Board and Special Committee Advisory practice, where she focuses on public company special committee representations. She has deep expertise in M&A, financing, and special situations involving controlling stockholders, related-party dynamics, inbound offers, and dual-class stock structures. Ms. Salameh specializes in helping clients navigate complex situations and conflict-prone transactions involving the need for heightened sensitivity around corporate governance considerations. She also serves on the firm’s Fairness Opinion Review Oversight Committee and is based in the New York office.

Ms. Salameh has more than 15 years of experience in advising companies in a variety of situations, including mergers and acquisitions, capital raises, recapitalizations, and strategic alternatives assessments.   

Prior to joining Houlihan Lokey, Ms. Salameh was a member of the Financial Sponsors & Leveraged Finance Group at UBS Investment Bank, where she structured leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations. Before that, she held Financial Analyst positions at Houlihan Lokey and Barclays Capital.

Ms. Salameh graduated cum laude with a B.S. in International Economics from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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