Bio

Kent Savagian is a Vice Chairman in the Global Investment Banking Group and Head of the Los Angeles Office. Kent is a widely recognized expert in complex advisory, financing and out-of-court restructuring transactions with almost 30 years of experience. Kent has spent much of his career advising media clients as well as West Coast based private equity clients. To date, Kent has worked on over $250 billion of financing assignments across a broad range of products including leverage finance, equity, investment grade and film/content financing, and in excess of $150 billion of advisory work for clients in his career. Kent previously served as a Managing Director at Moelis & Company and Credit Suisse where he advised corporate clients including the Walt Disney Company, Euro Disney SCA, Sony Entertainment, Penton Media, Media Rights Capital, Pixar Entertainment and Scripps Networks. He has also worked with most West Coast private equity clients including Oaktree Capital, Ares Capital, Leonard Green Partners and Aurora Capital. Prior to Moelis & Company, Kent ran the highly successful Los Angeles Office at Credit Suisse from 2005 through 2011, and prior to Credit Suisse worked in the Los Angeles Office of Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette. Kent holds a BS in Economics from Brigham Young University and an MBA in Finance from the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management. He is on the board of the California Chamber of Commerce and served on the Executive Board in 2013, Chairs the Audit and Finance Committee at St James’ Episcopal School and is currently involved in the Los Angeles Area Council for the Boy Scouts of America.