Houlihan Lokey has agreed to acquire Oakley Advisory, an independent advisory firm that provides a range of services to clients across the digital infrastructure, communications services and cloud landscape. This transaction adds substantially to Houlihan Lokey’s global coverage of the digital infrastructure sector and significantly augments the existing sector coverage in Europe.
Oakley Advisory was formed in 2015 by managing partners Chris Godsmark and Christian Maher, who both will join Houlihan Lokey as managing directors to spearhead the expansion of the firm’s market-leading digital infrastructure coverage into Europe.
To date, the team has completed more than 150 transactions with a combined deal value of more than £35 billion (€40.1 billion/$41.7 billion) and has a large international network of client relationships with corporates, listed companies, private equity funds, infrastructure funds and family offices.
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