Senior Team
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William Q. Derrough
Managing Director
Global Co-Head of Capital Structure Advisory
New York
Bill Derrough is a Managing Director and Global Co-Head of Capital Structure Advisory at Moelis & Company. Bill has extensive experience advising all types of parties in major restructurings including companies, boards of directors, creditor groups, shareholders, unions and governmental entities and has been instrumental in building out the Firm’s restructuring franchise. Under his leadership, Moelis & Company has established one of the world’s leading restructuring teams, which has advised on more than 400 assignments globally representing over $1 trillion in value. The team was ranked #1 Restructuring Advisor both globally and in the U.S. in 2019 for completed engagements and was awarded the prestigious Restructuring Bank of the Year award for 2019 by IFR Magazine.
Bill has 30 years of investment banking experience. From 1998 until joining Moelis & Company, he co-founded and co-headed the Recapitalization & Restructuring Group at Jefferies & Company. While at Jefferies, Bill advised a wide spectrum of clients and investors on restructurings, recapitalizations, financings, mergers and other engagements. Prior to joining Jefferies, Bill was a Principal at Doyle & Boissiere, a private investment firm. Bill began his investment banking career at Salomon Brothers Inc.
Bill holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. He serves on the boards of Youth INC, Boy Scouts of Greater New York, Bennington College and the Academy of St. Joseph, New York. He also served as Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee from 2017-2021.
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Michael DiYanni
Managing Director
Head of Risk Advisory
New York
Michael DiYanni is a Managing Director & Head of Risk Advisory at Moelis & Company where he specializes in Financial Institutions Advisory. Since joining the Firm, he has been instrumental in the execution of numerous market-leading structured credit transactions and advisory assignments. Mike has worked in the investment banking industry for more than 15 years, with extensive experience in the pricing, modeling and structuring of fixed income derivatives and securitizations.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Mike was an Executive Director at J.P. Morgan in the Fixed Income Group, where he led the North American Franchise Structuring Group and the Credit Hybrids Pricing and Execution Group. Previously, he was a Director in the Fixed Income Group at Citigroup on the Credit Derivatives Trading Desk in New York and London.
Mike holds a B.A. in Economics from Yale University and an M.S. in Finance and Economics from the London School of Economics.
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Jugjeev Duggal is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where he specializes in M&A Advisory, with a focus on clients in the clean technology, mobility, power, utilities and infrastructure sectors. Jugjeev has more than 20 years of investment banking experience advising corporates, sponsors, infrastructure clients and sovereign wealth funds across the full spectrum of M&A transactions.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Jugjeev was a Managing Director at Citi. He previously held investment banking roles at Barclays and Lehman Brothers.
Jugjeev holds a B.A. in Economics from Wesleyan University.
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Liz Eberhart is a Managing Director in Human Capital Management at Moelis & Company. Liz has over 20 years of HR experience as a trusted advisor and business partner.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Liz worked at UBS where she was most recently Head of the Americas Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities HR Team. Before that, she held HR positions at UBS AG in London and Switzerland as a Client Relationship Manager and Recruiter. Liz holds a B.S. from the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University. She is a member of several HR organizations, including the HR Roundtable, Connecticut chapter, where she has served on the Board of Advisors.
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Skip Fahrholz is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in Private Funds Advisory. He has over 16 years of M&A, secondary advisory and private equity investment experience, featuring an extensive track record of leading and executing numerous high profile M&A and secondary mandates as advisor as well as completing a broad range of private equity fund-, co- and secondary investments as investor.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Skip held several senior roles at UBS, most recently serving as Head of Private Equity Co-Investments and Secondaries and Head of Discretionary Multi-Vintage Private Equity for UBS Global Wealth Management. Prior to joining Wealth Management, Skip led UBS’s EMEA Private Equity Secondary Advisory business for the Investment Bank. He began his career in M&A investment banking at UBS in Frankfurt, Germany.
Skip holds a Diploma in Business Administration and Management from the International School of Management (ISM) and attended the Chinese University of Hong Kong and London Business School (IEP) for his M.B.A.
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David Faris is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in advising clients in the chemicals and materials sector. Dave has over 20 years of investment banking experience and has advised on a wide variety of domestic and international transactions, including M&A, debt and equity financings, restructurings and leveraged buyouts.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Dave was a Managing Director in the Chemicals Investment Banking Group at Credit Suisse. Before that, he worked at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette providing a broad range of investment banking services to chemical and other general industrial companies.
Dave holds a B.A. from the University of Rochester and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.
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Ted Ferguson
Managing Director
Chief Information Officer
New York
Ted Ferguson is a Managing Director and Chief Information Officer at Moelis & Company. Ted has over 25 years of information technology experience.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Ted was Chief Technology Officer at Shearman & Sterling overseeing global technology services. Before that, Ted was Chief Information Officer at Kasowitz, Benson, Torres and Freidman, where he was responsible for the firm’s technology platforms, processes and services. He was also previously Director of Information Technology at Ropes & Gray.
Ted holds a B.A. in International Relations from Cornell University and a M.A. in English from the University of Texas at Austin.
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Jay Finney is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in M&A advisory. Jay has extensive experience working with domestic and multinational companies on a broad range of complex M&A transactions. He has extensive investment banking experience including originating, structuring and executing a full spectrum of public and private M&A transactions across a variety of industries, with a focus on industrial companies, and related coverage of corporate clients as well as private equity firms.
Previously, Jay was a Managing Director at Credit Suisse in the M&A Group. He was also a member of the Investment Banking Advisory Committee at Credit Suisse. Jay holds a B.S. in Corporate Finance and Investment Management from the University of Alabama and an M.B.A from Harvard Business School.
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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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Eliot Freeston is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in M&A Advisory. Eliot has over 15 years of investment banking experience, executing public and private buy-side, sell-side and special committee assignments across a broad range of industries. He has advised on over $50 billion of high-profile M&A transactions, with an emphasis on the hospitality and leisure sectors.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Eliot worked in the M&A group at Centerview Partners and began his career in investment banking with Scotia Capital in Toronto, Canada. Eliot holds a honors B.A. from The Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.
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Antje Gaensler is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where she specializes in Capital Structure Advisory transactions with a focus on German-speaking regions.
She has extensive experience in capital structure and restructuring mandates advising debtors, creditors and shareholders.
Prior to Moelis & Company, Antje worked at Lazard where she advised clients across EMEA on capital structure and restructuring situations. Prior to that, she worked at Gleacher Shacklock LLP focusing on complex restructurings and she previously worked on financial turnarounds of portfolio companies at a European family office. Antje started her career as a structured finance attorney at Linklaters LLP.
Antje holds an MBA (Diplom-Kaufmann) and a Law degree from The University of Würzburg in Germany. She is admitted to the bar in Germany and the bar of England and Wales.
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Philippe Gallone is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in advising clients across the healthcare sector. Philippe has over 15 years of investment banking experience, having advised on more than $200 billion worth of M&A transactions in that time.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Philippe was a Managing Director and Co-Head of EMEA Healthcare Banking at Morgan Stanley. He began his investment banking career at Credit Suisse First Boston.
Philippe is a physician by training and received his medical degree from the University of Lausanne. He also holds an M.B.A. from Georgetown University.
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Abhinav Gattani is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he advises clients in the technology sector on corporate finance matters. Abhinav has extensive investment banking experience and has completed numerous high profile transactions, including M&A, equity and debt financings, and leveraged buyouts. During his career, Abhinav has advised a broad spectrum of marquee technology and non-technology clients globally, focusing on digitization, software, services, networking, digital media and internet sectors.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Abhinav worked in Global Technology Investment Banking at Citigroup and also at Goldman Sachs. He was also formerly a Senior Manager at Oracle Corporation where he focused on business development, strategy and product management.
Abhinav holds a Bachelor of Engineering with honors from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) and an M.B.A. from The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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Manisha Girotra
Chief Executive Officer of Moelis India
Mumbai
Manisha Girotra is Chief Executive Officer of Moelis India. She has more than 30 years of investment banking experience, with extensive cross-border M&A expertise across a broad range of industries.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Manisha was CEO and Country Head of UBS in India, managing its investment bank, commercial bank, markets, equity research and wealth management divisions. Previously, she was Head – North India of Barclays Bank. Manisha began her investment banking career at ANZ Grindlays in London. She has been named one of the 25 Most Powerful Women in Business in India by Business Today for the past six years as well as one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business by Fortune India in 2014 and 2015.
Manisha holds a degree in Economics from St. Stephen’s College and received a gold medal for her Master’s Degree from the Delhi School of Economics. She currently serves on the Global Board of Naspers and is a Board Member of Ashok Leyland and Mindspace Business Parks REIT.
