Bio

Prior to joining TAP, Mr. Pearce was a Managing Director in the TMT Group at Houlihan Lokey in London. Mr. Pearce has over 20 years’ investment banking experience predominantly focused on M&A/advisory and capital markets in the Telecom/Communications and surrounding industries including Cloud/IT Managed Services. He was formerly Head of Media & Telecom at Houlihan Lokey, EMEA, and was previously at Rothschild in London and Hong Kong, where he was Head of Telecom, Greater China. He began his career as a corporate lawyer at CMS in London, following which he joined HSBC’s equity capital markets team in London, and then moved into corporate finance/M&A at HSBC. He has extensive experience in the initiation, structuring and managing of often complex transactions in the sector, including some situations involving high leverage. Mr. Pearce holds an LLB from the London School of Economics and was a practicing Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England & Wales.