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Kristopher Kelly
Managing Director
New York

T: +1 212 883 3823

Kristopher Kelly is a Managing Director and Global Head of Corporate Services at Moelis & Company. Kristopher oversees the Firm’s Real Estate & Facilities, Corporate Services, and Administrative functions. He has over 20 years of strategic and operational resource management experience in the financial services industry.

Before joining Moelis & Company, Kristopher supported operations in the office of the COO at UBS Investment Bank. He holds a B.F.A. from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

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John Kimm
Managing Director
New York

T: +1 212 883-3567

John Kimm is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in M&A Advisory. John has nearly 30 years of investment banking experience, executing public and private buy-side and sell-side mergers, acquisitions and joint venture transactions across a broad range of industries.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, John was a Managing Director at Evercore where he advised clients across the industrials, consumer and various other sectors in addition to contributing to the growth of the firm’s advisory alliances in Asia. Previously, he held senior investment banking roles at BofA Securities and Bear Stearns. Before his career in investment banking, John served as a strategy consultant at The Boston Consulting Group and Bain & Company. John holds an M.B.A. in Finance and Accounting from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Palmer Scholar, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University.

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Barak Klein
Managing Director
Co-Head of U.S. Capital Structure Advisory
New York

T: +1 212 883 3877

Barak Klein is a Managing Director and Co-Head of U.S. Capital Structure Advisory at Moelis & Company. Barak has over 25 years of investment banking and asset management experience, advising clients on distressed M&A and debt financing transactions, liability management and Chapter 11 reorganizations.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Barak was a member of the CR Intrinsic-General Distressed Group, investing in work-out and special situations at SAC Capital Advisors. He has also held senior level roles in Asset Management and in Restructuring & Recapitalization at Jefferies. He began his career at in the Financial Restructuring Group at Houlihan Lokey. Barak holds a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Roger Knight
Managing Director
New York

T: +1 212 880 4279

Roger Knight is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in advising clients in the enterprise software sector. Roger has nearly 20 years of experience in the technology industry advising infrastructure software and security clients on M&A and capital markets transactions.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Roger was a Senior Managing Director at SVB Securities. He was previously a founding member of Pacific Crest Securities’ M&A group leading up to and through Pacific Crest’s acquisition by KeyBanc Capital Markets. Before this, he held investment banking roles at Deutsche Bank, Oppenheimer and WR Hambrecht. Roger holds a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University. He serves as a trustee of Regis High School.

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Craig Kolwicz
Managing Director
New York

T: +1 212 883 3667

Craig Kolwicz is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where he specializes in M&A advisory. He has extensive investment banking experience, with expertise in structuring and executing a full spectrum of public and private M&A transactions, including sell-side, merger, buy-side and special committee assignment mandates across a variety of industries.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Craig was an investment banker at UBS, where he executed M&A and capital markets transactions. Craig holds a B.S.M. in Finance from the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University.

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Arek Kurkciyan
Managing Director
New York

T: +1 212 907 6056

Arek Kurkciyan is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he advises clients across the life sciences, outsourced pharmaceutical services and pharmaceutical industries.  Arek has nearly 20 years of investment banking experience advising healthcare companies and financial sponsors on important M&A and financing transactions.

Previously, Arek was a Managing Director in the Healthcare Investment Banking group at Morgan Stanley.  Before joining Morgan Stanley, Arek was part of Deutsche Bank’s Healthcare Investment Banking group.  Prior to Investment Banking, Arek held a number of functional roles in the pharmaceutical industry, including various sales and marketing positions at GlaxoSmithKline and HS&E Norvatis. Arek holds a B.S. in Neuroscience from Vanderbilt University and an M.B.A. from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

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Lawrence Kwon
Managing Director
New York

T: +1 212 883 3852

Larry Kwon is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in advising clients in the real estate, gaming, hospitality and leisure industries. Larry has over 15 years of investment banking experience, advising both companies and investors on a wide variety of corporate finance matters including M&A, recapitalizations and restructurings, and debt and equity capital raisings. Larry advises on both U.S. and international transactions and has executed numerous cross-border transactions involving parties in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Larry worked in the Recapitalization & Restructuring Group at Jefferies and as a Management Consultant at Accenture. Larry holds a B.A. in Economics and History from Tufts University.

 

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Mark Laoun
Managing Director
New York

T: +1 212 883 3863

Mark Laoun is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he provides strategic advice to private equity clients. Mark has over 25 years of industry experience, having originated and executed a full spectrum of corporate finance transactions including M&A, GP-advisory, equity and debt financings across multiple industry verticals.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Mark worked at Morgan Stanley in the Global Financial Sponsors Group and at Lehman Brothers in the Global Industrials Group. Earlier in his career, he held positions in investment management at Scotia Capital. Mark holds a B.A. from the University of Western Ontario and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

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Curt Launer
Senior Advisor
New York

T: +1 646 981 9856

Curt Launer is a Senior Advisor at Moelis & Company, where he advises midstream energy clients. He has over 35 years of experience in the energy sector as an equity research analyst, investment banker, and principal investor.

Curt is a co-founder of Bakken Energy, a developer of natural gas-fueled power generation and related infrastructure. He previously led teams at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Credit Suisse, Sagent Advisors and Deutsche Bank and was a principal at American Energy Partners, where he originated and participated in over $30 billion in mergers and acquisitions and more than $50 billion in equity and debt capital raising.

Curt began his career at DLJ as an equity research analyst covering natural gas, pipelines, and midstream infrastructure. During this time, he was the #1 ranked analyst by Institutional Investor Magazine for 12 years and was inducted into the “Institutional Investor Hall of Fame”. Curt holds a B.S. in Accounting from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

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Vincent Lima
Managing Director
New York

T: +1 212 883 3544

Vinny Lima is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in Capital Markets Advisory. He has over 26 years of investment banking experience, primarily advising on high yield transactions for leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and refinancings.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, he was a Managing Director at Christopher Street Capital, where he co-founded the company’s U.S. credit business and oversaw the Capital Markets Group. Vinny holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Rutgers College. He is a Board member of NJ Seeds

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Patrick Loftus-Hills
Senior Advisor
New York

T: +1 212 883 3881

Patrick Loftus-Hills is a Senior Advisor at Moelis & Company where he specializes in the metals and mining sector. Patrick has over 35 years of experience and has advised almost every major global mining company on a range of transactions, including cross-border M&A, capital raisings and restructurings. Patrick has completed numerous significant financial advisory transactions for companies listed on all of the major stock exchanges globally.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company in 2011 as a Managing Director, Patrick was the Joint Head of the Asian Industrials Group and Head of Natural Resources at UBS in Hong Kong, and held leadership roles in the UBS global mining team across multiple jurisdictions including New York and Australia.

Patrick holds Law and Science degrees from Monash University in Australia. He serves on the Board of Directors of Ivanhoe Electric, is a Managing Member of Sweetwater Royalties LLC, an Orion Resource Partners portfolio company, and Chairman of the Monash University US Leadership Council, Co-Chairman of the US Friends of the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Vice Chairman of the AUS USA Foundation.

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Tiffany Lundquist
Managing Director
General Counsel - Americas
New York

T: +1 212 883 4648

Tiffany Lundquist is a Managing Director and General Counsel for the Americas at Moelis & Company.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, she was a Director and Counsel for the Investment Banking Department at Credit Suisse. Previously, Tiffany was in private practice as a securities and corporate attorney at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and O’Melveny & Myers LLP. She holds a B.A. from New York University and a J.D. from Rutgers School of Law – Newark.

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Jane Ma
Managing Director
New York

T: +1 212 883 3573

Jane Ma is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where she specializes in advising clients in the Asset Management and Wealth Management sector. She has over 15 years of investment banking experience.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Jane worked at both Greenhill and Deutsche Bank focusing on M&A. Jane holds a B.S. in Applied Economics & Management from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.

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Melissa Mariaschin
Managing Director
Head of Distribution, Capital Markets
New York

T: +1 212 883 3506

Melissa Mariaschin is a Managing Director and Head of Distribution for Moelis & Company’s Capital Markets Group. Melissa has extensive syndicate experience and transactional expertise across PIPES, registered directs, converts, SPACs and other equity capital raises.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Melissa was a Managing Director at Barclays on its equity syndicate desk. She began her investment banking career as an Analyst at Lehman Brothers. Melissa holds a B.S. in Finance from The McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.

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Mike McKeever
Managing Director
New York

T: +1 212 883 3685

Mike McKeever is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in advising private equity clients. He has extensive investment banking experience, having advised private equity clients, family offices and sovereign wealth funds on a variety of corporate finance matters, including M&A, capital markets and hedging & derivatives transactions across a broad range of industries.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Mike worked at Morgan Stanley in the Global Financial Sponsors Group in the Investment Banking division and in Private Credit Solutions within Global Capital Markets. Before that, he was a Finance & Performance Management consultant at Accenture. Mike holds a B.A. in Economics from Duke University and an M.B.A. from the Darden School at the University of Virginia in addition to earning a CFA charter.