Houlihan Lokey names Andrew Atherton as new fintech managing director
Los Angeles-based investment bank Houlihan Lokey has hired Andrew Atherton, a former partner at Union Square Advisors, as a managing director in its fintech group.
Andrew Atherton joins Houlihan Lokey’s fintech group (Image: LinkedIn)
The bank says Atherton, who will be based out of San Francisco, will “cover multiple fintech sectors as well as fintech-adjacent enterprise software companies” as part of his new remit.
The group provides strategic advisory services to fintech companies globally. These services currently cover M&A, capital markets, valuation and financial restructuring, and growth strategy, with a particular focus on asset management and wealth technology, payments, real estate and mortgage technology, regtech, insurtech, and data and analytics.
The bank claims its M&A advisory services helped support 15 fintech deals and 89 global technology deals in 2023.
Atherton joins the bank directly from Union Square Advisors, a technology-focused investment bank based in San Francisco.
There, he spent seven years working as managing director, before ascending to the position of partner to advise “on a broad range of M&A transactions, private capital financings, and strategic advisory assignments for clients across the fintech and enterprise application software sectors”.
His experience prior to this includes roles in RBC Capital Markets’ technology investment banking group and Goldman Sachs’ special situations group.
