Michael McMahon graduated with a degree in finance from Gatton College in 1992. McMahon is currently a managing director and head of the asset management practice within Houlihan Lokey’s financial services group. Before joining Houlihan Lokey, he was a managing director and co-head of diversified financials within the financial institutions group at Morgan Stanley. Before that, he spent nearly 10 years with the Credit Suisse Group at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette as a managing director, where he was responsible for capital raising and advisory assignments for specialty finance companies. He also worked at NatWest Securities/Greenwich Capital Markets, where he covered and executed transactions on behalf of clients issuing asset-backed securities. He has advised on a variety of asset management, specialty finance and government-related transactions. He advised on the largest prepackaged bankruptcy and the first successful bankruptcy restructuring of a U.S. bank holding company. In addition, he advised the U.S. Treasury on the conservatorships of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as the divestitures of its Troubled Asset Relief Program investments.
