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Justin Craig
Managing Director
New York

T: +1 212 883 4819

Justin Craig is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where he provides strategic and financial advice to consumer and retail clients with a focus on food and beverage. He has extensive investment banking experience, with expertise in advising public and private companies spanning a broad spectrum of consumer and retail sectors, including food and beverage, consumer discretionary, pet, optical and auto services. Justin has originated and executed a range of transactions throughout the corporate lifecycle and across disciplines including M&A, leveraged buyouts, IPOs, debt and equity capital raising, shareholder defense and other strategic transactions.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Justin was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, where he led the food investment banking practice. He holds a B.S. from the University of Delaware, a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School.

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Elizabeth Crain
Co-Founder
New York

T: +1 212 883 3883

Elizabeth Crain is a Co-Founder and served as the Chief Operating Officer of Moelis & Company from 2007 to October 2023.  As COO, she led the Firm’s global strategy, infrastructure and business management functions. Elizabeth has been in the investment banking and private equity industries for almost 35 years as a banker, principal and operations executive.

Prior to Moelis & Company, Elizabeth was a Managing Director at UBS Investment Bank where she was the Manager of the Investment Bank Client Committee and held senior management roles in the UBS Investment Banking Department. Before joining UBS, Elizabeth worked in the private equity industry and began her career in investment banking at Merrill Lynch.

In 2022, Elizabeth was named one of the 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance by Barron’s Magazine. Elizabeth holds a B.S. in Economics from Arizona State University and serves on the Board of Directors of the Nokia Corporation and Exscientia Ltd.

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Dennis Crandall
Managing Director
New York

T: +1 212 883 3525

Dennis Crandall is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where he specializes in advising clients in the life sciences and outsourced pharmaceutical services sectors (e.g., CDMOs, CROs and technology-enabled services). He has extensive experience in healthcare investment banking, with expertise in executing a broad range of transactions for healthcare corporations and financial sponsors.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Dennis was a Managing Director in the Healthcare Investment Banking group at Morgan Stanley. Before that, he worked on the M&A team at UBS Investment Bank and held various advisory roles at KPMG. He started his finance career at Jacobsen Capital Management.

Dennis holds a B.S. in Management from Brigham Young University and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

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Nik Dampier
Managing Director
Head of Global Business Technology
New York

T: +1 212 883 3628

Nik Dampier is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he heads the Global Business Technology team and is responsible for the Firm’s internal technology applications, the most notable of which is the deal management platform. Nik is a proven technology professional with over 20 years of strategy and consulting experience within financial services and has worked with many of the world’s leading investment banks.

At Moelis & Company, Nik is responsible for defining the product vision, strategic direction, and implementation of the deal management platform, while architecting core business processes to maximize productivity and efficiency. He is instrumental in delivering cutting-edge tools that drive the Firm’s client relationship management strategy.

Nik holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Leicester (UK).

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Brad Davis
Managing Director
New York

T: +1 212 883 3894

Brad Davis is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in M&A advisory. He has extensive experience executing public and private sell-side, buy-side and special committee assignments and has advised on numerous high-profile, strategic M&A transactions across a broad range of industries.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Brad worked in the Investment Banking Division of Barclays Capital where he executed a variety of M&A and capital markets transactions and began his career as an Equity Investment Analyst at Federated Investors. Brad holds a B.S. in Finance and Economics from Tulane University and an M.B.A. from Yale School of Management.

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Francesco Del Vecchio
Managing Director
New York

T: +1 212 883 4581

Francesco Del Vecchio is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in Capital Structure Advisory. Francesco has over 20 years of restructuring, financing and investment management experience advising debtors, creditors, private equity sponsors and governmental entities on a wide variety of in-court and out-of-court restructurings, special situations and capital structure assignments across a broad range of transactions, industries and jurisdictions globally. Francesco has worked in the Firm’s New York and London offices.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Francesco held investment banking roles at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup in New York and London and also managed an investment portfolio at a New York-based asset manager. He began his career at Goldman Sachs.

Francesco holds a B.S. from Cornell University and a MSL from the USC Gould School of Law. He is an Advisory Group member of the Cornell Emerging Markets Institute and is active within Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

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Jared Dermont
Managing Director
New York

T: +1 212 883 3875

Jared Dermont is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in M&A and Capital Structure Advisory. Jared has over 25 years of investment banking experience advising companies, equity investors, financial vehicles, creditors and government entities across a broad range of industries and geographies. Jared has extensive financial engineering experience and has advised on over 50 SPAC transactions.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Jared was a Managing Director at Rothschild, Inc. where he focused on global M&A and restructuring transactions. Jared holds a B.A. in Economics from Tufts University.

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William Q. Derrough
Managing Director
Global Co-Head of Capital Structure Advisory
New York

T: +1 212 883 3830

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

T: +1 212 883 4590

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
Managing Director
New York

T: +1 212 883 3508

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
Managing Director
New York

T: +1 212 883 4576

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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David P. Faris
Managing Director
New York

T: +1 212 883 3850

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

T: +1 212 883 6354

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
Managing Director
New York

T: +1 212 883 3821

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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Eliot Freeston
Managing Director
New York

T: +1 212 883 3515

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.