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Gabor Szabo is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he advises pharmaceutical and biotech clients. Gabor has more than 15 years of investment banking experience advising on transactions including public, private, and cross-border M&A, licensing/collaboration, restructuring, activist & takeover defense, and special committee assignments.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Gabor was a member of the New York-based Healthcare M&A team at Greenhill & Co. and of the London-based investment banking team at Morgan Stanley. Gabor holds an M.B.A. from INSEAD and graduated cum laude with a B.S. in Finance from Iona College where he was an All-American NCAA Division I water-polo player and three-event all-time record holder swimmer.
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Cyril Tabet is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in advising a broad range of clients in the Middle East. Cyril has over 15 years of investment banking experience, advising corporates, creditors and sovereigns across the U.S. and Middle East on a broad range of mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, refinancings, debt and equity capital markets and strategic advisory transactions.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Cyril worked at Jefferies & Company in New York in the Recapitalization and Restructuring group. Cyril was named one of “Rising Stars of Investment Banking” by Financial News in 2018. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University.
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Brian Tichenor is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where he specializes in M&A Advisory across a broad range of industries and has experience executing public and private buy-side, sell-side and capital markets assignments.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Brian held roles in the Financial Institutions Group at Citi and in the Treasury Division at State Street Bank & Trust. Brian holds a B.S. in Business Management from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College and an M.B.A. from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.
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Carl Torrillo is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in advising clients in the industrials sector. Carl has advised a wide range of industrial companies across the capital goods, diversified manufacturing, and fire, safety and security sectors, on a variety of corporate finance transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt capital raises, restructurings, recapitalizations and leveraged buyouts.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Carl held roles at Nomura in the Industrials Investment Banking Group and at Citi in the Global Industrials Group. He also co-founded and served as CFO of ACE Portal, which provided transaction management and marketing tools in support of private capital formation. Carl holds a B.S. from Cornell University.
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Rami Touma is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in advising a broad range of clients across the MENA region. Rami has over 20 years of investment banking experience and has advised sovereign, corporate and financial sponsor clients on a variety of strategic and financial transactions including IPOs, debt raisings, M&A transactions and restructurings.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Rami was the Head of Investment Banking Department at Credit Suisse in Qatar where he led the origination and execution of several complex cross-border M&A transactions and several multibillion dollar capital markets transactions. Rami holds a B.Sc. in Accounting from the Lebanese American University and a M.Sc. in Accounting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also a CFA charter holder and a CPA in the State of Illinois.
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Stephen Trauber
Managing Director
Chairman and Global Head of Energy and Clean Technology
Houston
Stephen Trauber is a Managing Director and the Chairman and Global Head of Energy and Clean Technology at Moelis & Company. Steve has over 35 years of investment banking experience, having advised on more than $700 billion of energy transactions, including many of the sector’s most significant and transformative M&A and financing transactions. In addition to assembling more than 300 oil and natural gas transactions, he has also served as lead financier for many of the industry’s IPOs and equity and debt capital markets deals.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Steve was Vice Chairman and Global Co-Head of Natural Resources and Clean Energy Transition at Citi, where he was responsible for creating and building its Clean Energy Transition business. Prior to Citi, Steve was Vice Chairman and Global Head of Energy at UBS Investment Bank. He began his career with Credit Suisse and subsequently managed Morgan Stanley’s Energy Group in Houston.
Steve holds a B.A. in Economics and Managerial Studies from Rice University and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where he was an Austin Scholar. Steve currently serves on a number of corporate Boards of Directors, including Global Geophysical Services, Geophysical Technology Inc, Nabors Energy Transition Corp II, where he serves as Audit Chair, NXTClean Fuels, New Asean Energy and Odyssey Trust Company. He also serves as an Advisory Director for Aon, Element Resources, and Last Energy. In addition, Steve serves as Chairman of the Memorial Hermann Hospital Foundation and is on the Board of Directors for Theater Under the Stars and Performing Arts Houston and its Foundation. He is also on the Board of Advisors of the Jones Business School at Rice University.
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Yorick van Slingelandt
Managing Director
Head of EMEA & APAC
Co-Head of Europe
London
Yorick van Slingelandt is a Managing Director and Head of EMEA & APAC at Moelis & Company. He also serves as the Firm’s Co-Head of Europe. Yorick has nearly 30 years of investment banking experience having worked in Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East and has significant expertise in leading cross-border M&A and capital markets transactions across a variety of industries, including infrastructure, transport, logistics, energy, aerospace, and telecommunications. Prior to joining Moelis & Company in 2011, Yorick was Managing Director at J.P. Morgan.
Yorick holds an engineering and business degree (Ingénieur Commercial et de Gestion) from Université Catholique de Louvain and a Masters in Management from the Community of European Management Schools. Yorick serves on the Board of Directors of Education for Employment.
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Ken Viellieu is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in advising publicly-held and private companies in the retail and consumer, industrial and transportation, real estate and leisure, financial and business services and healthcare sectors. Ken has been in the investment banking industry for over 30 years, with significant experience in a broad range of corporate finance matters including divestitures, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged finance and recapitalization transactions, public and private equity offerings and corporate restructurings.
Prior to Moelis & Company, Ken was Senior Managing Director and Head of Midwest Investment Banking at Bear Stearns and previously as a Managing Director and Head of the Chicago Office of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.
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Craig Wadler is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in shareholder advisory and activist defense. Craig has more than 26 years of investment banking experience, providing strategic advice to corporations faced with activist investors and other contested shareholder related matters.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, he was a Managing Director at Credit Suisse and a founding member of the Hedge Fund Advisory business. Previously, Craig worked at UBS Investment Bank where he founded the Hedge Fund coverage business. He started his investment banking career at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.
Craig holds a B.S. from Indiana University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.
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Adam Walker is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he advises clients in the energy services and technology sector. Adam has extensive energy investment banking and commercial banking experience, having advised on and executed a variety of mandates, including mergers, acquisitions, capital markets and restructuring transactions for public and private companies.
Before joining Moelis & Company, Adam was on the Energy Investment Banking team at Raymond James and the Energy Commercial Banking team at Capital One. He holds a B.B.A. in Finance and Accounting from Texas Christian University and an M.B.A. from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Osamu Watanabe is General Counsel at Moelis & Company where he leads the Firm’s legal and compliance department.
Prior to Moelis & Company, Osamu was General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Sagent Advisors. Prior to that, he held senior positions at UBS, Credit Suisse First Boston and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Osamu started his career in private practice at Sullivan & Cromwell, working in New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Melbourne. He also clerked for the Honorable Morey L. Sear, Eastern District of Louisiana. Osamu holds a B.A. in History from Antioch College and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
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Mark Webber is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where he provides financial and strategic advice to clients in the life sciences industry, with a focus on the medical devices sector. He has extensive investment banking experience, with expertise in advising strategics and financial sponsors on a broad range of mandates including M&A and a variety of other corporate finance matters.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Mark held several roles in the financial services industry, including transaction advisory positions at PwC and EY. He holds a degree in Accountancy from Rhodes University in South Africa and an M.B.A. from the London Business School.
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Andrew Welby is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in advising clients in the industrials sector, with a focus on the vehicle supply chain and aftermarket. Andrew has extensive investment banking experience, having advised on a range of transactions throughout the corporate lifecycle including M&A, capital markets and restructuring mandates for corporates and financial sponsors.
Andrew holds a MSc. in Finance from Bocconi University.
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Angus Whelchel
Managing Director
Head of Private Capital Markets
New York
Angus Whelchel is a Managing Director and Head of Private Capital Markets at Moelis & Company, focusing on the Firm’s public and private market origination and distribution capabilities. Angus has more than 20 years of investment banking experience working with clients across all industries and has helped raise over $200bn of private capital globally across debt and equity.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Angus served as Global Head of Private Capital Markets in New York and Head of Private Capital Markets for EMEA in London at Barclays. Earlier in his career, Angus held positions in the Private Placement market at Lehman Brothers and GE Capital. Angus holds a B.A. in Finance from the University of Vermont and an M.B.A from the College of William and Mary. He is also a CFA charterholder.
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Raymond Wu is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in advising technology clients with a focus on software. He has nearly 20 years of investment banking experience with expertise across mergers and acquisitions and capital raising transactions.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Raymond was a Managing Director of Tech Investment Banking at SVB Securities. Before that, he worked at UBS where he specialized in advising education technology clients. Previously, he held investment banking and investing roles at Stifel Financial Corp, BMO Capital Markets and Battery Ventures. He started his career in the Software, Services & Media group at Broadview International (acquired by Jefferies). Raymond holds an A.B. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University.
