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Global investment bank Houlihan Lokey – which has expertise in mergers and acquisitions ( M&A ), capital markets, financial restructuring, and financial and valuation advisory – has appointed Angela Hu as a managing director in the financial sponsors group, based in Hong Kong.
Hu brings more than 20 years of investment banking expertise, 16 of which have been spent in Hong Kong, most recently leading financial sponsor coverage for Barclays where she spent five years as the managing director and head of financial sponsors for Greater China. She joined the company after nine years with JP Morgan where she was head of China financial sponsors. Her investment banking career in Hong Kong began in 2006 with Merrill Lynch, having previously spent five years with Macquarie Bank in Sydney.
Houlihan Lokey is among the leading advisers to alternative capital providers, and its financial sponsors group is the largest of its kind, the bank notes, with 30 senior bankers in eight countries managing close to 2,000 relationships around the world, from private equity to credit funds and family offices to sovereign wealth funds.
“Hu’s extensive expertise working with private equity and credit investors, coupled with her exceptional track record in complex M&A and capital markets transactions and deep industry relationships, will significantly enhance our ability to support the firm’s businesses in Asia,” says Kevin Salmini, the bank’s managing director and global head of the financial sponsors group.
Brandon Gale, the bank’s managing director and head of financial restructuring group in Asia, adds: “Angela’s proven ability to navigate complex transactions and the depth of her understanding of the financial sponsors landscape will be hugely valuable as we continue to grow our business in the region.”
