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London & New York , December 18, 2019

Moelis & Company (NYSE: MC), a leading global independent investment bank, has been awarded IFR Magazine’s coveted Restructuring Adviser of the Year award for 2019 for delivering clients ‘one firm’ across the globe.

IFR judges said: “Moelis prides itself on a ‘one firm’ approach to restructurings, being able to offer the same service to clients from Europe to the US to Asia. That approach proved highly useful in the past year as complex cross-border restructurings, fueled by years of cheap debt, became marquee assignments.”

With approximately 60 per cent of assignments completed out-of-court, Moelis advised on 9 of the 10 largest restructuring assignments in 2019 globally, helping to place it top of the Refinitiv Worldwide Global Restructuring league table 2019 year-to-date.

The IFR judges said Moelis ‘…proved to be a tenacious advocate for its client and continues to stretch the boundaries of what’s possible in a restructuring.” Bill Derrough and Thane Carlston, Co-Heads of Moelis & Company’s Restructuring Team, said: “Since our team joined Moelis in 2008, we have worked on more than $1 trillion of restructuring transactions. In winning this award, we are proud to have been recognized for the work we have done in the past year for clients like iHeart, Noble, Hexion and Neiman Marcus.”

The IFR judges also pointed to Steinhoff as a major highlight of the recent debt restructuring market. Matt Prest and Charles Noel-Johnson, Co-Heads of EMEA Restructuring, said: “Moelis was there at the critical stage at the start and helped save the company from bankruptcy in the first three months. For a year and a half, we worked on all aspects of the deal and ultimately delivered.”

About Moelis & Company

Moelis & Company is a leading global independent investment bank that provides innovative strategic advice and solutions to a diverse client base, including corporations, governments and financial sponsors.  The Firm assists its clients in achieving their strategic goals by offering comprehensive integrated financial advisory services across all major industry sectors.  Moelis & Company’s experienced professionals advise clients on their most critical decisions, including mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations and restructurings, capital markets transactions, and other corporate finance matters.  The Firm serves its clients from 20 geographic locations in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia.  For further information, please visit: www.moelis.com or follow us on Twitter @Moelis.

*IFR Magazine is owned by Refinitiv.

New York, December 02, 2019

Moelis & Company (NYSE: MC), a leading global independent investment bank, today announced that Ken Moelis, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, is scheduled to present at the Goldman Sachs US Financial Services Conference on Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 11:10 a.m. Eastern Time.

The presentation and a live audio webcast will be available through the Investor Relations section of the Moelis & Company website at www.moelis.com. For those unable to listen to the live webcast, a replay will be available for 180 days on the same website following the conference.

About Moelis & Company

Moelis & Company is a leading global independent investment bank that provides innovative strategic advice and solutions to a diverse client base, including corporations, governments and financial sponsors.  The Firm assists its clients in achieving their strategic goals by offering comprehensive integrated financial advisory services across all major industry sectors.  Moelis & Company’s experienced professionals advise clients on their most critical decisions, including mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations and restructurings, capital markets transactions, and other corporate finance matters.  The Firm serves its clients from 19 geographic locations in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia.  For further information, please visit: www.moelis.com or follow us on Twitter @Moelis.

New York, October 30, 2019

New York, October 28, 2019

Moelis & Company (NYSE: MC), a leading global independent investment bank, today announced the appointment of Tommaso Zanobini as a Managing Director providing financial and strategic advice to fintech clients. He will join the Firm’s New York office in mid-November.

Mr. Zanobini has over 25 years of technology investment banking experience, having most recently served as the Global Head of FinTech Investment Banking at Deutsche Bank. Prior to Deutsche Bank, he was the Global Head of FinTech & Services Investment Banking at Jefferies. Mr. Zanobini spent the first 20 years of his banking career at Lehman Brothers and Barclays where he held roles including Global Head of Technology Services Investment Banking and Head of East Coast Technology Investment Banking.

“Tommaso is an experienced technology services banker who began specializing in fintech when the industry was still in its nascent years. He’s entrepreneurial and over the years has proven his ability to advise on industry-leading transactions and build and lead successful teams in this vertical,” said Moelis & Company Co-President Jeff Raich. “His deep experience and his collaborative mindset will be a tremendous benefit to clients across the payments value chain, where we continue to see significant investment activity and consolidation. As the fintech sector continues to grow and expand, both established players and new entrants will be looking to bankers like Tommaso to assist them in achieving their strategic goals.”

About Moelis & Company

Moelis & Company is a leading global independent investment bank that provides innovative strategic advice and solutions to a diverse client base, including corporations, governments and financial sponsors.  The Firm assists its clients in achieving their strategic goals by offering comprehensive integrated financial advisory services across all major industry sectors.  Moelis & Company’s experienced professionals advise clients on their most critical decisions, including mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations and restructurings, capital markets transactions, and other corporate finance matters.  The Firm serves its clients from 19 geographic locations in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia.  For further information, please visit: www.moelis.com or follow us on Twitter @Moelis.

New York, October 14, 2019

Moelis & Company (NYSE: MC), a leading global independent investment bank, will release its third quarter 2019 financial results after the market closes on Wednesday, October 30, 2019.

Ken Moelis, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Joe Simon, Chief Financial Officer, will also host a related conference call at 5:00pm ET on the same day (October 30, 2019) to review the financial results. Following the review, there will be a question and answer session.

Investors and analysts may participate in the live conference call by dialing 1-877-510-3938 (domestic) or 1-412-902-4137 (international) and referencing the Moelis & Company Third Quarter 2019 Earnings Call. Please dial in 15 minutes before the conference call begins. The conference call will also be accessible as a listen-only audio webcast through the Investor Relations section of the Moelis & Company website at www.moelis.com.

For those unable to listen to the live broadcast, a replay of the call will be available for one month via telephone starting approximately one hour after the live call ends. The replay can be accessed at 1-877-344-7529 (domestic) or 1-412-317-0088 (international); the conference number is 10135658.

About Moelis & Company

Moelis & Company is a leading global independent investment bank that provides innovative strategic advice and solutions to a diverse client base, including corporations, governments and financial sponsors. The Firm assists its clients in achieving their strategic goals by offering comprehensive integrated financial advisory services across all major industry sectors. Moelis & Company’s experienced professionals advise clients on their most critical decisions, including mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations and restructurings, capital markets transactions, and other corporate finance matters. The Firm serves its clients from 19 geographic locations in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. For further information, please visit: www.moelis.com or follow us on Twitter @Moelis.

New York, October 02, 2019

Moelis & Company (NYSE: MC), a leading global independent investment bank, today announced the appointment of Ted Conway as a Managing Director focusing on specialty finance companies, permanent capital vehicles, and other special situations. He will be based in New York and will join the Firm in November.

Mr. Conway has over 30 years of investment banking experience across M&A, debt and equity capital markets, leveraged finance, and other strategic advisory. Prior to joining Moelis & Company, he spent his entire career at Lehman Brothers, and later Barclays Capital, where he was most recently Co-Head of the Banks and Specialty Finance Group. He also served as a Managing Director within Barclays’ Financial Sponsors Group and the firm’s Leveraged Finance Group.

“Ted is innovative and entrepreneurial in his approach. He has broadened financial institutions coverage well-beyond its traditional areas and has found creative solutions for companies in smaller, and now growing, pockets of the industry,” said Navid Mahmoodzadegan, Co-President of Moelis & Company. “Over 20 years of his career has been dedicated to creating successful outcomes for countless financial institutions and specialty finance companies. As the non-bank financial sector continues to grow and permanent capital vehicles continue to consolidate, our financial institution and specialty finance clients will benefit from Ted’s decades of experience and differentiated advice.”

About Moelis & Company

Moelis & Company is a leading global independent investment bank that provides innovative strategic advice and solutions to a diverse client base, including corporations, governments and financial sponsors.  The Firm assists its clients in achieving their strategic goals by offering comprehensive integrated financial advisory services across all major industry sectors.  Moelis & Company’s experienced professionals advise clients on their most critical decisions, including mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations and restructurings, capital markets transactions, and other corporate finance matters.  The Firm serves its clients from 19 geographic locations in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia.  For further information, please visit: www.moelis.com or follow us on Twitter @Moelis.

London, September 16, 2019

Moelis & Company (NYSE: MC), a leading global independent investment bank, today announced the appointment of Will Peters as a Managing Director focusing on clients in the tech, media, and telecom sectors and specializing in communications infrastructure and fintech. He will join the Firm’s London office in December.

Mr. Peters has 15 years of tech and telecom investment banking experience. He will join Moelis & Company from Barclays where he was a Managing Director and a senior member of the firm’s tech, media, and telecom coverage team in London, leading Barclays’ EMEA coverage of clients in fiber & communications infrastructure, datacenters & hosting, and payments & fintech. Mr. Peters has extensive experience advising clients across a broad spectrum of strategic matters including M&A, IPOs and both equity and debt financing in the private and public markets. Prior to starting his investment banking career at Barclays, he spent six years in the British Army, serving with the 1st Battalion, The Duke of Wellington’s Regiment in Europe and the Middle East.

“At a time of fundamental change in the sector for both companies and investors, Will brings deep sector expertise, relationships, and regional insight to our world-class global tech, media, and telecom franchise,” said Matt Prest, Moelis & Company’s Co-Head of Europe. “His experience and skillset will be invaluable to clients across EMEA and around the world as they position themselves to benefit from the extraordinary investment in communications infrastructure and the inevitable changes it will bring to the delivery of products and services. His connectivity across a wider footprint of tech, especially payments and financial technology, will further strengthen our focus on delivering the best advice in burgeoning sectors.”

About Moelis & Company

Moelis & Company is a leading global independent investment bank that provides innovative strategic advice and solutions to a diverse client base, including corporations, governments and financial sponsors.  The Firm assists its clients in achieving their strategic goals by offering comprehensive integrated financial advisory services across all major industry sectors.  Moelis & Company’s experienced professionals advise clients on their most critical decisions, including mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations and restructurings, capital markets transactions, and other corporate finance matters.  The Firm serves its clients from 19 geographic locations in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia.  For further information, please visit: www.moelis.com or follow us on Twitter @Moelis.

Amsterdam, September 04, 2019

Moelis & Company (NYSE: MC), a leading global independent investment bank, today announced its expansion in Europe with the appointment of Peter Kerckhoffs as a Managing Director, based in Amsterdam. Mr. Kerckhoffs will join the Firm in December to provide financial and strategic advice to clients in the Netherlands and across Europe.

Mr. Kerckhoffs has nearly three decades of investment banking and corporate finance experience, having spent 21 of those years with J.P. Morgan where he was most recently Senior Country Officer for the Netherlands. In this role, he was responsible for investment banking coverage, overseeing the development and delivery of strategic advisory capabilities and capital raising to clients in the region. Prior to this role, he was Head of Benelux and Nordic M&A. During his career with J.P. Morgan, Mr. Kerckhoffs advised some of the largest companies in the region across a wide range of sectors including telecoms, infrastructure, and technology.

“Peter is one of the most trusted and experienced advisors and corporate financiers in Northern Europe,” said Moelis & Company Co-Head of Europe Yorick van Slingelandt. “Throughout his 30-year career, Peter has advised on the most significant corporate and financial sponsor transactions across all of Europe and built a market-leading M&A franchise. His cross-industry expertise and world-class execution capabilities have solidified him as the go-to M&A specialist in the region.”

“Peter brings a wealth of experience, insight, and expertise to our European platform and our global network,” said Ken Moelis, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Moelis & Company. “We are excited that our clients will benefit from an expansion of our presence in Northern Europe anchored by a banker of Peter’s caliber, and supported by our industry-leading teams across Europe and around the world.”

Mr. Kerckhoffs joins Moelis & Company at a time when the Firm has recently announced and completed a number of transactions involving Netherlands-based corporates. Recent advisory assignments include advising Galapagos N.V. on its $5.1 billion transformational global biotech collaboration with Gilead Sciences, Inc, Steinhoff International Holdings N.V. on its €8.7 billion restructuring, IGM Resins on its sale to Astorg, and Curaeos B.V. on its sale to EQT Fund Management S.à r.l.

About Moelis & Company
Moelis & Company is a leading global independent investment bank that provides innovative strategic advice and solutions to a diverse client base, including corporations, governments and financial sponsors. The Firm assists its clients in achieving their strategic goals by offering comprehensive integrated financial advisory services across all major industry sectors. Moelis & Company’s experienced professionals advise clients on their most critical decisions, including mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations and restructurings, capital markets transactions, and other corporate finance matters. The Firm serves its clients from 19 geographic locations in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. For further information, please visit: www.moelis.com or follow us on Twitter @Moelis.

New York, September 03, 2019

Moelis & Company (NYSE: MC), a leading global independent investment bank, today announced that the Firm will sell 8.0 million Moelis Australia Limited (ASX: MOE) shares to MOE via a selective buyback at a price of $3.40 (AUD) per share. This selective buyback is subject to MOE shareholder approval, and an independent expert providing an opinion that the buyback is fair and reasonable to all MOE shareholders (other than Moelis), at an EGM to be held in Australia in the coming months.

In conjunction with the selective buyback, on September 2, 2019, Moelis sold 10.5 million MOE shares at $3.40 (AUD) per share to public market investors and 2.0 million MOE shares, at the same price, to the Moelis Australia Employee Share Trust, which holds MOE shares for the benefit of MOE employees (collectively, the “Share Sale”).

Following implementation of the selective buyback, Moelis’ share ownership in Moelis Australia will be 19.98%. There will be no change to the Moelis Australia board composition and the strategic alliance in Corporate Advisory services between Moelis and Moelis Australia remains unchanged.

The buyback and sale price of $3.40 (AUD) per MOE share represents a 6.6% discount to the 30−day volume weighted average price for MOE shares up to and including September 2, 2019. The Share Sale and selective buyback transactions are expected to close in the third and fourth quarters of 2019, respectively.

Moelis Australia staff will continue to have a significant interest in MOE, holding over 52 million MOE shares, representing approximately 35.5% of issued capital, post implementation of the selective buyback.

About Moelis & Company
Moelis & Company is a leading global independent investment bank that provides innovative strategic advice and solutions to a diverse client base, including corporations, governments and financial sponsors. The Firm assists its clients in achieving their strategic goals by offering comprehensive integrated financial advisory services across all major industry sectors. Moelis & Company’s experienced professionals advise clients on their most critical decisions, including mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations and restructurings, capital markets transactions, and other corporate finance matters. The Firm serves its clients from 19 geographic locations in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. For further information, please visit: www.moelis.com or follow us on Twitter @Moelis.

New York, July 30, 2019

New York, July 09, 2019

Moelis & Company (NYSE: MC), a leading global independent investment bank, will release its second quarter 2019 financial results after the market closes on Tuesday, July 30, 2019.

Ken Moelis, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Joe Simon, Chief Financial Officer, will also host a related conference call at 5:00pm ET on the same day (July 30, 2019) to review the financial results. Following the review, there will be a question and answer session.

Investors and analysts may participate in the live conference call by dialing 1-877-510-3938 (domestic) or 1-412-902-4137 (international) and referencing the Moelis & Company Second Quarter 2019 Earnings Call. Please dial in 15 minutes before the conference call begins. The conference call will also be accessible as a listen-only audio webcast through the Investor Relations section of the Moelis & Company website at www.moelis.com.

For those unable to listen to the live broadcast, a replay of the call will be available for one month via telephone starting approximately one hour after the live call ends. The replay can be accessed at 1-877-344-7529 (domestic) or 1-412-317-0088 (international); the conference number is 10132999.

About Moelis & Company

Moelis & Company is a leading global independent investment bank that provides innovative strategic advice and solutions to a diverse client base, including corporations, governments and financial sponsors. The Firm assists its clients in achieving their strategic goals by offering comprehensive integrated financial advisory services across all major industry sectors. Moelis & Company’s experienced professionals advise clients on their most critical decisions, including mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations and restructurings, capital markets transactions, and other corporate finance matters. The Firm serves its clients from 19 geographic locations in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. For further information, please visit: www.moelis.com or follow us on Twitter @Moelis.

New York, May 31, 2019

Moelis & Company (NYSE: MC), a leading global independent investment bank, today announced that Navid Mahmoodzadegan, Co-President, is scheduled to present at the Morgan Stanley Financials Conference on Tuesday, June 11, 2019 at 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
The live audio webcast will be available through the Investor Relations section of the Moelis & Company website at www.moelis.com. For those unable to listen to the live webcast, a replay will be available for 180 days on the same website following the conference.

About Moelis & Company

Moelis & Company is a leading global independent investment bank that provides innovative strategic advice and solutions to a diverse client base, including corporations, governments and financial sponsors.  The Firm assists its clients in achieving their strategic goals by offering comprehensive integrated financial advisory services across all major industry sectors.  Moelis & Company’s experienced professionals advise clients on their most critical decisions, including mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations and restructurings, capital markets transactions, and other corporate finance matters.  The Firm serves its clients from 19 geographic locations in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia.  For further information, please visit: www.moelis.com or follow us on Twitter @Moelis.

Houston, May 30, 2019

Moelis & Company (NYSE: MC), a leading global independent investment bank, today announced the appointment of Richard Barker as a Managing Director providing financial and strategic advice to oil and gas clients, with a specific focus on the Oilfield Services & Equipment sector. He will join the Firm in August and will be based in Houston.

Mr. Barker has 15 years of investment banking experience working as a trusted advisor to oil and gas companies globally. He was most recently the Head of Oilfield Services for North America at JPMorgan. Prior to JPMorgan, Mr. Barker spent four years at Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co working with oilfield service companies on a variety of strategic matters including M&A, equity financing and capital structure policy. He began his investment banking career within Goldman Sachs’ Natural Resources Group in London and Houston.

“We continue to see significant structural changes in the oil & gas industry,” said Jeff Raich, Co-President of Moelis & Company. “Oil and gas producers are looking to improve returns by leveraging technology and data, which will create new opportunities for front-footed oil services companies and equipment providers. Richard’s deep sector knowledge, coupled with our world-class global energy franchise, will be tremendously valuable to clients looking to strategically position themselves in this changing environment.”

About Moelis & Company

Moelis & Company is a leading global independent investment bank that provides innovative strategic advice and solutions to a diverse client base, including corporations, governments and financial sponsors.  The Firm assists its clients in achieving their strategic goals by offering comprehensive integrated financial advisory services across all major industry sectors.  Moelis & Company’s experienced professionals advise clients on their most critical decisions, including mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations and restructurings, capital markets transactions, and other corporate finance matters.  The Firm serves its clients from 19 geographic locations in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia.  For further information, please visit: www.moelis.com or follow us on Twitter @Moelis.

New York, May 01, 2019

Moelis & Company (NYSE: MC), a leading global independent investment bank, today announced it has received three awards from The Banker’s 2019 Deals of the Year Awards.

The Firm was honoured with the publication’s M&A Deal of the Year in the Middle East for its role as exclusive financial advisor to Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) on its sale of a stake in ADNOC Drilling to Baker Hughes. The Banker’s award for Restructuring Deal of the Year in Europe went to the team that advised the unsecured bondholder select commitment parties in Seadrill’s restructuring. Moelis & Company was also recognized for its role as exclusive financial advisor to Noble Group on its restructuring and structuring of new trade finance facilities, which won this year’s Asia-Pacific Restructuring Deal of the Year. This is the second consecutive year that the Firm has received this award in the Asia-Pacific region.

“These awards demonstrate Moelis & Company’s global connectivity and our ability to deliver regional and industry expertise to create carefully tailored solutions for clients across all regions,” said Matthew Prest, Co-Head of Europe at Moelis & Company. “It is an honour to be recognized in this year’s Deals of the Year for our breadth of capabilities globally.”

Last month, Moelis & Company was also named Mergermarket’s 2019 Financial Advisor of the Year and Energy, Mining and Utilities Financial Advisor of the Year in the Middle East.

About Moelis & Company
Moelis & Company is a leading global independent investment bank that provides innovative strategic advice and solutions to a diverse client base, including corporations, governments and financial sponsors. The Firm assists its clients in achieving their strategic goals by offering comprehensive integrated financial advisory services across all major industry sectors. Moelis & Company’s experienced professionals advise clients on their most critical decisions, including mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations and restructurings, capital markets transactions, and other corporate finance matters. The Firm serves its clients from 19 geographic locations in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. For further information, please visit: www.moelis.com or follow us on Twitter @Moelis.

April 30, 2019