Global investment bank Houlihan Lokey announced that Ryan Lund has joined the firm’s global Technology Group as a Managing Director. Lund is based in Miami and has been appointed Co-Head of U.S. Technology alongside John Lambros and Jason Hill and Global Co-Head of Software with Sascha Pfeiffer.
Lund joined UBS as a managing director and global head of software investment banking. Before UBS, Lund was Global Head of Software for RBC Capital Markets and spent over 20 years at Raymond James, where he most recently co-led the enterprise software investment banking team. Since 1999, Lund has advised on over 100 M&A, public capital markets, and private capital transactions for software companies.
Along with Lund, Vikram Kaushik and Ted Sullivan have joined Houlihan Lokey’s Technology Group as directors to strengthen the software practice further. Kaushik and Sullivan both joined from UBS, where they were executive directors in the Technology Investment Banking Group, primarily focused on enterprise software. Both officers also have held roles in RBC Capital Markets’ Technology Group. They are based in New York.
With over 170 financial professionals worldwide, Houlihan Lokey’s Technology Group has earned a reputation for providing superior service and achieving outstanding results in M&A advisory, capital-raising, restructuring, and financial and valuation advisory services. And its clients range from early-stage businesses and midsized companies to publicly traded corporations.
KEY QUOTES:
“Ryan has an outstanding track record in sellside advisory for some of the world’s leading technology companies and private equity firms. His deep expertise in the software domain will only further bolster our best-in-class team, and he will be a tremendous resource for our clients at a time when emerging technological advancements are precipitating rapid changes in software. Ryan’s robust domain knowledge and experience in navigating extremely complex transactions in tech will be hugely additive to our team and our clients, and his leadership and client-centric approach represent an excellent cultural fit with Houlihan Lokey. We are thrilled he is joining us.”
- Phil Adams, Managing Director and Head of Global Technology at Houlihan Lokey
“The software sector continues to change rapidly as enterprises adopt artificial intelligence and other ascendant technologies. Houlihan Lokey’s Technology Group, the largest and most prolific global entity of its kind in investment banking, is uniquely positioned to provide highly specialized, subsector-specific advisory services, particularly to those that are in the middle market and focused on enterprise use cases and who are navigating the opportunities that this fast-changing industry landscape brings. It’s an exciting prospect to join Houlihan Lokey’s growing team at this time, and we are looking forward to capitalizing on the growing momentum in the market.”
- Ryan Lund
