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Peter Kerckhoffs is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in providing financial and strategic advice to clients in the Netherlands and across Europe. Peter has nearly three decades of investment banking and corporate finance experience.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Peter held various senior roles at J.P. Morgan including Senior Country Officer for the Netherlands and Head of Benelux and Nordic M&A. Peter holds a M.A. in Econometrics from the University of Tilburg and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.
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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 is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in Capital Structure Advisory. 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 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 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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Amit Kumar is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he advises clients across a broad range of industries and products including M&A, restructuring, risk advisory and capital markets. Amit has over 15 years of investment banking experience in the Middle East.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, he was a Director at EFG Hermes. Amit holds a B.B.A. in Finance from Wilfrid Laurier University.
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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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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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Muhammad Laghari is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where he specializes in providing strategic and financial advice to clients in the energy sector. Muhammad has over 15 years of investment banking experience, including a broad range of strategic advisory and capital markets engagements. He has led several transactions totaling over $150 billion in value and spanning North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Europe.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Muhammad helped lead energy investment banking teams at Guggenheim Securities and Citigroup, where he led the firm’s North American Upstream Investment Banking business. Prior to Citigroup, Muhammad worked in the Global Natural Resources Group at Barclays Investment Bank.
Muhammad holds an M.A. in Financial Risk Management from the Segal Graduate School of Business at Simon Fraser University and graduated with Honors from Lahore University of Management Sciences with a B.Sc. in Economics and a minor in Mathematics.
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Nadim Laiwala is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he focuses on advising clients in the hardware technology sector. Nadim has extensive investment banking experience advising communications technology, electronics and deep technology clients on sell-side and buy-side transactions, capital advisory transactions and a variety of other corporate finance matters.
Nadim previously held various roles at Qatalyst Partners and Houlihan Lokey and was a software engineer before launching his technology investment banking career. Nadim holds dual B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from the College of Engineering and in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business, both from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Jeremy Lane is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where he specializes in advising clients in the Industrials sector, with a focus on Metals & Mining. Jeremy has extensive M&A experience, having worked with both regional and international clients on significant cross-border transactions with an Asia nexus, including Greater China, Korea and Southeast Asia.
Prior to Moelis & Company, Jeremy was Head of Metals & Mining for Asia at Credit Suisse, and previously held investment banking roles at Credit Suisse in the mining, industrials, and new energy sectors.
Jeremy holds a Bachelor of Engineering and a Bachelor of Commerce from The University of Melbourne.
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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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Bryan Lastrapes is a Senior Advisor at Moelis & Company where he focuses on advising clients in the oil & gas sector. Bryan has over 34 years of experience in the oil and gas industry and focuses on acquisitions, divestments, capital markets transactions, restructurings, and strategic advisory mandates. Before joining Moelis & Company, Bryan was Chief Operating Officer at Quantum Reservoir Impact, where he was responsible for the company’s strategy, operations and business development. Prior to that, Bryan worked at Shell E&P for over 30 years in various management and leadership roles, including Business Development Manager for North America Onshore. In this role, he was responsible for growth of the onshore North America unconventional portfolio, including all exploration, acquisitions and joint ventures.
Bryan holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Louisiana State University and an M.B.A. with honors from the University of Houston.
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Bassam Latif is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in Capital Structure Advisory and special situations M&A. He has over 25 years of investment banking experience, advising companies, equity investors, and creditors across a broad range of industries including technology, energy and clean tech, shipping and transportation, and industrials.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Bassam was with Rothschild, Inc. where he focused on M&A and restructuring transactions. Bassam holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and a B.A. in Economics from Rice University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.
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Nathan Laverriere is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where advises clients in the technology sector, with a focus on learning and public sector technology. He has over 15 years of investment banking experience, having built extensive relationships across the technology sector and with financial sponsors, with proven expertise in mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Nathan was a Senior Managing Director of Tech Investment Banking at SVB Securities. He was previously a Managing Director at UBS focused on advising technology companies. Prior that that, he worked at a technology start-up and was in the Technology Mergers and Acquisitions group at Jefferies.
Nathan holds a B.S. in Finance from Boston College.
