Our Senior Team

Michael   Openlander

Michael Openlander

Managing Director Houston

Biography

Michael Openlander is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where he advises clients in the energy infrastructure sector, including the LNG, downstream, midstream, and energy transition subsectors. Michael has over 20 years of investment banking, corporate finance, and accounting experience and has advised on a wide variety of strategic advisory, M&A, capital markets, and restructuring transactions in the U.S. and globally.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Michael worked in the Global Energy & Power Investment Banking Group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Earlier in his career, he held positions of increasing responsibility at PwC, Marsico Capital Management, and Baird. He earned a B.S. in Finance and a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Missouri–St. Louis and an M.B.A. from the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame.

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Our Strategic Alliances

MA Moelis Australia

Moelis & Company provides investment banking advice in Australia through our strategic alliance with MA Moelis Australia, the Corporate Advisory and Equities division of MA Financial Group, an Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) listed firm. MA Moelis Australia provides financial advice for clients across M&A and strategic advisory, equity and debt capital markets, capital structure advisory, equities research and trading.

Learn more about MA Moelis Australia here.

Learn more about MA Financial Group here.


Alfaro, Dávila y Scherer, S.C.

Moelis & Company has a strategic alliance with Alfaro, Dávila y Scherer, S.C. (“ADS”), the leading independent strategic and financial advisory firm in Mexico, to provide advisory services to our global client base with a focus on Mexican cross-border transactions. Founded in 2003, ADS advises a select number of clients on strategic mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, capital raising and financial restructurings.

Learn more about ADS team here.