Bio

Mr. Lacher is a Managing Director in Houlihan Lokey’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group. He also serves as Co-Head of the firm’s M&A Committee and Co-Head of the Board and Special Committee Advisory practice. Mr. Lacher has more than three decades of experience advising public and private clients on mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, leveraged buyouts, and capital-raising activities (senior, mezzanine/subordinated, and equity) as well as in connection with assessing strategic alternatives. He is based in the firm’s Dallas office. Before joining Houlihan Lokey, Mr. Lacher was a Senior Managing Director in the Dallas investment banking office of Bear, Stearns & Co. He also practiced corporate and securities law at the Dallas-based firm of Hughes & Luce (now KL Gates), where he was a partner in its corporate division. Mr. Lacher holds a B.B.A. in Accounting and a J.D. from the University of Texas, where he was a Chancellor as well as a member of the Order of the Coif and the Texas Law Review. He has been licensed in Texas as an attorney and a Certified Public Accountant.