Bio

Mr. Houlihan is a Managing Director and is responsible for the firm’s valuation practice across all industries. Mr. Houlihan has over 20 years of experience in investment banking advisory and valuation. He has advised clients in a broad range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, financial restructuring and debt and equity capital raising for clients in the technology, media and entertainment industries. Mr. Houlihan’s experience in valuation includes the provision of fairness and other financial opinions and the valuation of intellectual property assets, businesses, private equity and hedge fund investments, goodwill and intangible assets, incentive compensation awards, estate and tax planning, derivatives, complex partnership and tax structures and other structured finance assets. Mr. Houlihan also works as an expert witness in arbitration, litigation, dispute resolution and other related matters in the technology, media and entertainment industry. Prior to joining Salem Partners in 2003, Mr. Houlihan was an Associate in the Mergers and Acquisitions practice of Credit Suisse First Boston in San Francisco and an Analyst in the Technology Investment Banking practice at Warburg Dillon Read in San Francisco. Mr. Houlihan is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.