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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 specializes in advising private equity clients. Mark has over 20 years of investment banking and asset management experience and has advised private equity clients on a wide variety of corporate finance matters, including M&A, capital markets and restructuring transactions across multiple industry verticals.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Mark worked in the Global Financial Sponsors Group at Morgan Stanley and in the Global Industrials Group at Lehman Brothers. He holds a B.A. from the University of Western Ontario and an M.B.A. from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.
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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.
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Weihan Lee is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he focuses on advising corporate and financial sponsor clients across the Asia-Pacific region. Weihan has extensive experience executing a wide variety of corporate finance transactions in Asia, including M&A, private financing and equity capital markets deals across various industries.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Weihan worked on the Technology Media Telecom investment banking team at Goldman Sachs, covering Asia ex-Japan. He also previously held roles at ABN AMRO and Credit Suisse First Boston.
Weihan holds a M.A. in Law from Cambridge University, a M.Sc. in Management and Strategy from the London School of Economics and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
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Daniel Lee is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he provides strategic and financial advice to clients on M&A transactions and chairs the Firm’s Fairness and Valuation Committee. Dan has nearly 25 years of investment banking experience, with expertise in public company and special committee M&A transactions across a range of industries.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Dan was a Managing Director in the M&A Group at Macquarie Capital, and Co-Head of the Exclusive Sales Group and Head of West Coast M&A at UBS Investment Bank. He began his investment banking career at Bear, Stearns & Co.
Dan holds a B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from The University of Pennsylvania Law School. He serves on the Board of Advisors of NYU’s Institute for Corporate Governance & Finance and the Board of Advisors of the Institute for Law & Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Wouter Leemhuis is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where he specializes in advising clients in the energy sector and Benelux market. Wouter has over 17 years of investment banking experience.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Wouter held positions at Nomura and Lehman Brothers, covering the Natural Resources sector and Benelux and Middle-Eastern markets in London, Amsterdam and Dubai.
Wouter holds a M.Sc. in Business Administration (Finance & Investments) from the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
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Vinny Lima is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in Capital Markets Advisory and has been instrumental in building out the Firm’s data center business, which he currently oversees. He has over 26 years of investment banking experience, primarily advising on high yield transactions for leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and refinancings.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, he was a Managing Director at Christopher Street Capital, where he co-founded the company’s U.S. credit business and oversaw the Capital Markets Group. Vinny holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Rutgers College. He is a Board member of NJ Seeds.
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Patrick Loftus-Hills is a Senior Advisor at Moelis & Company where he specializes in the metals and mining sector. Patrick has over 35 years of experience and has advised almost every major global mining company on a range of transactions, including cross-border M&A, capital raisings and restructurings. Patrick has completed numerous significant financial advisory transactions for companies listed on all of the major stock exchanges globally.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company in 2011 as a Managing Director, Patrick was the Joint Head of the Asian Industrials Group and Head of Natural Resources at UBS in Hong Kong, and held leadership roles in the UBS global mining team across multiple jurisdictions including New York and Australia.
Patrick holds Law and Science degrees from Monash University in Australia. He serves on the Board of Directors of Ivanhoe Electric, is a Managing Member of Sweetwater Royalties LLC, an Orion Resource Partners portfolio company, and Chairman of the Monash University US Leadership Council, Co-Chairman of the US Friends of the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Vice Chairman of the AUS USA Foundation.
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Marcus Lollie is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he provides strategic advice to clients in the media and entertainment sector with a focus on sports transactions. He has nearly 30 years of investment banking experience with expertise across a broad range of mandates.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Marcus was a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at the Canon Media Group, an operationally focused investment firm, where he developed and oversaw the media, tech, and entertainment practice. He previously was a Managing Director in the Private Fund Group (PFG) at Credit Suisse where he provided capital solutions to private equity and other alternative asset managers.
Prior to PFG, he was a member of the Leveraged Finance and M&A Business Development Group at Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ), responsible for advising private equity firms on sourcing transactions, financing acquisitions, and divesting portfolio companies.
Marcus holds a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University, where he was a member of the university’s Division 1 Men’s Basketball team.
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Tiffany Lundquist is a Managing Director and Senior Associate General Counsel at Moelis & Company.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, she was a Director and Counsel for the Investment Banking Department at Credit Suisse. Previously, Tiffany was in private practice as a securities and corporate attorney at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and O’Melveny & Myers LLP. She holds a B.A. from New York University and a J.D. from Rutgers School of Law – Newark.
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Jane Ma is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where she specializes in advising clients in the Asset Management and Wealth Management sector. She has over 15 years of investment banking experience.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Jane worked at both Greenhill and Deutsche Bank focusing on M&A. Jane holds a B.S. in Applied Economics & Management from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.
