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Eric Biddle is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where he specializes in advising clients in the retail, apparel and consumer sectors. Eric has over 20 years of investment banking experience, advising clients on M&A and strategic financing opportunities including debt and equity transactions.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Eric was a Managing Director at Barclays Capital and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, having started his career at Merrill Lynch. Eric holds a B.A. in Economics from Colgate University, where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and an M.B.A. in Corporate Finance from The USC Marshall School of Business. He serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Buckley School in Los Angeles, California.
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Rob Flachs is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in Capital Structure Advisory. Rob has over 20 years of restructuring, investment banking and related experience. He has advised companies and creditors across a broad range of industries in recapitalizations, in-court and out-of-court restructurings, financings and distressed M&A.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Rob was a Managing Director in the Recapitalization & Restructuring group at Jefferies & Company. Before that, he was an attorney at Guth Rothman & Christopher and Irell & Manella.
Rob graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. from UCLA and holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
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Christopher Foss is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in M&A Advisory. Chris has over 15 years of investment banking experience, primarily executing public and private buy-side, sell-side and special committee assignments across a broad range of industries.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, he worked inGlobal Distressed and Corporate Opportunities group at The Carlyle Group and began his career at UBS Investment Bank. Chris holds a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Southern California.
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Stu Goldstein is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in advising clients across the technology sector. Stu has over 20 years of investment banking experience and has provided strategic advisory services to technology companies on the full spectrum of corporate finance matters, with an emphasis on M&A transactions.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Stu held several senior level positions at Citigroup including Head of West Coast Technology Investment Banking and Managing Director in the M&A Group. Before his investment banking career, Stu was a law clerk for the Honorable Anthony J. Scirica of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
Stu holds a B.S. in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, a B.A. in History from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from Harvard University School of Law.
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Evan Green is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in Capital Markets Advisory and leads the Firm’s West Coast Capital Markets efforts. He has over 15 years of investment banking and capital markets experience, with expertise in originating, structuring and executing PIPE and other financings transactions for clients across a broad range of industries.
Prior to Moelis & Company, Evan was Managing Director and Head of Private Investment in Public Equity (PIPE) at Goldman Sachs & Co., where he was instrumental in establishing the firm’s PIPE business. Before that, he held investment banking and private capital markets roles at Barclays and Lehman Brothers.
Evan graduated cum laude with a B.A. in Economics and Business from Westmont College.
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Carlos Jimenez
Managing Director
Global Head of Media, Sports and Entertainment
Los Angeles
Carlos Jimenez is a Managing Director and Global Head of Media, Sports and Entertainment at Moelis & Company. Carlos has over 20 years of investment banking experience and has completed numerous high-profile M&A transactions, debt and equity financings, IPOs, leveraged buyouts and restructurings.
Carlos is a trusted advisor to players within the Hollywood ecosystem and is perennially recognized as a top dealmaker by the Hollywood Reporter. Additionally, his significant experience consummating transactions extends across music, sports, live events, gaming, digital media, technology and various adjacent sectors.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Carlos worked in the Leveraged Finance Group at Lehman Brothers. Carlos holds a B.A. in Economics from Yale University.
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Daniel Lee
Managing Director
Head of Special Committee Practice
Los Angeles
Daniel Lee is a Managing Director and the Head of Special Committee practice in the M&A group at Moelis & Company, where he also chairs the Firm’s Fairness and Valuation Committee. Dan has nearly 25 years of investment banking experience, with expertise in public company and special committee M&A transactions across a range of industries.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Dan was a Managing Director in the M&A Group at Macquarie Capital, and Co-Head of the Exclusive Sales Group and Head of West Coast M&A at UBS Investment Bank. He began his investment banking career at Bear, Stearns & Co.
Dan holds a B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from The University of Pennsylvania Law School. He serves on the Board of Advisors of NYU’s Institute for Corporate Governance & Finance and the Board of Advisors of the Institute for Law & Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Marcus Lollie is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he provides strategic advice to clients in the media and entertainment sector with a focus on sports transactions. He has nearly 30 years of investment banking experience with expertise across a broad range of mandates.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Marcus was a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at the Canon Media Group, an operationally focused investment firm, where he developed and oversaw the media, tech, and entertainment practice. He previously was a Managing Director in the Private Fund Group (PFG) at Credit Suisse where he provided capital solutions to private equity and other alternative asset managers.
Prior to PFG, he was a member of the Leveraged Finance and M&A Business Development Group at Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ), responsible for advising private equity firms on sourcing transactions, financing acquisitions, and divesting portfolio companies.
Marcus holds a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University, where he was a member of the university’s Division 1 Men’s Basketball team.
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Navid Mahmoodzadegan
Co-Founder & Co-President
Los Angeles
Navid Mahmoodzadegan is a Co-Founder and Co-President at Moelis & Company. Navid has been instrumental in building the Firm’s Media and Communications franchise, which has become a global advisory leader having advised on over 200 transactions across the industry. Navid has over 30 years of investment banking experience.
Prior to Moelis & Company, Navid was Global Head of Media Investment Banking and a member of Americas Investment Banking Executive Committee at UBS Investment Bank. Navid was previously an investment banker at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and began his career as an attorney at Irell & Manella. Navid has been recognized in Variety’s 500, an annual list of the 500 most influential leaders shaping the entertainment industry.
Navid holds an A.B. with Highest Distinction from the University of Michigan (Phi Beta Kappa) and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude. He currently serves on the Taft School Board of Trustees, with previous service as Board Chair for the Carlthorp School Board of Trustees and the National Board of Directors of JumpStart.
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Michele Miyakawa
Co-Founder & Managing Director
Los Angeles
Michele Miyakawa is a Co-Founder and Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Michele specializes in advising high growth consumer companies regarding capital raises and strategic alternatives including M&A. Michele has over 20 years of experience in the finance industry as both a banker and an executive, leading multiple banking and management roles at Moelis & Company, including COO of Global Advisory.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Michele worked at UBS Investment Bank where she advised clients on M&A, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and other equity and debt transactions. Before UBS, she was an investment banker at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.
Michele holds a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from Harvard University. She served on the Board of Directors of Pacific Mercantile Bancorp and as a Board Member of the Hollywood Hills West Council.
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John Momtazee
Co-Founder & Managing Director
Global Chairman of Media, Sports, and Entertainment
Los Angeles
John Momtazee is a Co-Founder and Global Chairman of Media, Sports, and Entertainment at Moelis & Company. He also leads the Global Blockchain Group. John has advised and financed many of the largest, most sophisticated media clients across the diversified media, blockchain technology, television, radio, newspapers, magazines, digital media, video games, entertainment, publishing, and outdoor advertising sectors, and has worked extensively with leading financial sponsors.
Prior to Moelis & Company, John was a Managing Director in the Global Media Group and Head of Broadcasting Investment Banking at UBS Investment Bank. Previously, John worked at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and served as Chief Financial Officer of The .TV Corporation. John was named one of “40 Under 40” in Investment Dealers’ Digest. He has also been recognized in the “Power 100” list by Broadcasting & Cable and Multichannel News and was named one of the top 50 M&A bankers in the Americas by the Global M&A Network.
John holds an A.B. in Quantitative Economics and a M.S. in Engineering Economic Systems from Stanford University, and an M.B.A. and J.D., both with honors, from the University of Chicago. John serves on the Board of Trustees at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute and the board of Village for Vets, a non-profit that supports homeless Veterans. He is also a member of the LEAD Council and the Southern California Advisors for Stanford University and serves on the Law School Council for the University of Chicago.
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Jeff Raich is Co-President and a Co-Founder at Moelis & Company. He has been instrumental in establishing and building the Firm’s global franchise, especially its private equity and M&A businesses. Jeff has over 30 years of investment banking experience specializing in M&A transactions where he has advised on over 200 transactions across a broad spectrum of industries.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Jeff was the Joint Global Head of M&A at UBS Investment Bank, where he established UBS’s Exclusive Sales and Divestitures Group. While at UBS, he was a member of the UBS Investment Bank Board, the UBS Global Management Committee and the Investment Banking Department Americas Executive Committee and was Co-Head of Investment Banking Los Angeles. Before UBS, Jeff was a Managing Director and Head of West Coast Mergers and Acquisitions at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Jeff began his investment banking at PaineWebber.
Jeff holds a B.S. with Distinction in Commerce from The McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia (Beta Gamma Sigma). He is a member of the McIntire School of Commerce Advisory Board at the University of Virginia, a Board Member of the UCLA Health System and Co-Chair of the Lung Health Advisory Board at UCLA. Jeff also serves on The Posse Foundation National Board of Directors and the Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research (FSR) Board of Directors.
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Kevin Scheetz is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in advising clients in the technology sector. He joined the team shortly after the Firm’s inception and was instrumental in establishing the San Francisco office. Kevin has nearly 25 years of investment banking experience with expertise working with communications, infrastructure, industrial and consumer hardware and software companies. He has advised public and private companies on a wide range of corporate finance matters, including M&A, initial public offerings, take-privates and other public and private debt and equity financings.
Prior to Moelis & Company, Kevin worked at Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse First Boston and Citigroup. He holds a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from the Stern School of Business at New York University, which he attended as a Dean’s Scholar.
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Craig Wadler is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in shareholder advisory and activist defense. Craig has more than 26 years of investment banking experience, providing strategic advice to corporations faced with activist investors and other contested shareholder related matters.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, he was a Managing Director at Credit Suisse and a founding member of the Hedge Fund Advisory business. Previously, Craig worked at UBS Investment Bank where he founded the Hedge Fund coverage business. He started his investment banking career at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.
Craig holds a B.S. from Indiana University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.
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Dan Zweben is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he advises a broad spectrum of clients in the media, entertainment, sports and gaming industries. Dan has extensive investment banking and corporate law experience and has completed a number of high profile mandates advising clients on mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity capital raises and restructurings and recapitalizations.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Dan held roles at Lazard and UBS Investment Bank. He began his career as an M&A lawyer at Skadden, Arps, Slate Meagher and Flom in New York City. Dan holds a B.S.M. in Finance and Economics from the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University and a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School.