Moelis & Company operates as a global independent investment bank that provides strategic and financial advice and solutions to a diverse client base, including corporations, financial sponsors, governments and sovereign wealth funds.
The company assists its clients in achieving their strategic goals by offering comprehensive, globally integrated financial advisory services across all major industry sectors. The company’s team of experienced professionals advises clients on their most critical...
Moelis & Company operates as a global independent investment bank that provides strategic and financial advice and solutions to a diverse client base, including corporations, financial sponsors, governments and sovereign wealth funds.
The company assists its clients in achieving their strategic goals by offering comprehensive, globally integrated financial advisory services across all major industry sectors. The company’s team of experienced professionals advises clients on their most critical decisions, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A), recapitalizations and restructurings, capital markets transactions and other corporate finance matters. The company offers multi-disciplinary solutions and exceptional transaction execution. The company provides focused innovative advice through a highly collaborative and global approach.
Advisory Offering
The company offers holistic advisory solutions to clients by integrating its bankers’ deep industry knowledge and broad corporate finance experience with its global capabilities. With over 20 locations in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia, the company combines local and regional expertise with international market knowledge to provide highly integrated information flow and strong cross-border capabilities. The company’s global footprint allows it to effectively advise clients in their local markets while providing valuable global insights.
The company combines its global capabilities with expertise in all major industries, including Technology; Industrials; Healthcare; Energy; Power & Utilities; Infrastructure; Clean Technology; Consumer & Retail; Business Services; Financial Institutions; Media, Sports & Entertainment; Telecommunications; and Real Estate, Gaming, Lodging & Leisure. The company collaborate globally to bring its deep industry knowledge to the local markets where its clients operate.
The company focuses on a wide range of clients, including large public multinational corporations, middle market private companies, financial sponsors, entrepreneurs, governments and sovereign wealth funds, and it delivers the full resources of its firm and the highest level of senior attention to every client, regardless of size or situation.
The company advises its clients through all phases of the business cycle using its strong capabilities in M&A and strategic advisory, capital markets, capital structure advisory and private funds advisory.
Moelis & Company has a distinguished M&A and strategic advisory franchise advising clients on mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, spin-offs, joint ventures, fairness opinions and shareholder advisory across all sectors in every major market around the world. The company has a leading exclusive sales franchise with a strong track record in achieving maximum value for clients in their sale processes. The company counsels its clients through all stages of the process as it evaluates strategic alternatives, assess potential acquirers and targets, provide valuation analyses and advise on transaction terms, including valuation, structuring, timing and potential financing.
The company has substantial expertise in guiding special committees of boards of directors in evaluating strategic alternatives and negotiating proposals by leveraging decades of transaction experience, coupled with independence, confidentiality, and discretion. The company works closely with directors to build a rigorous decision-making and negotiating process that addresses the unique challenges of special committee situations, including the interplay between value and other deal terms, as well as governance considerations and a deep understanding of the various stakeholders involved.
The company’s shareholder advisory team provides corporate boards with effective solutions to a broad range of shareholder situations, drawing from decades of experience working with public companies, boards and management The company advises clients across every industry on matters of corporate preparedness, proactively developing and implementing engagement strategies. The company also provides support during activist campaigns, from privately engaging with shareholders to stave off a formal campaign, to defending its interests in a proxy fight or hostile media campaign. Combining the company’s global industry coverage with its M&A and Capital Markets capabilities, it helps its clients minimize disruption to their business and position them to meet their long-term objectives.
For its clients seeking capital market solutions, the company structures and executes customized financing solutions and advises clients on all aspects of public and private equity and debt transactions. Transactions for its clients address a broad range of needs, including refinancings, growth capital, secondary liquidity, buyouts, platform formation, liquidity enhancement, capital structure optimization, and project financing. The company acts as placement agent, underwriter, bookrunner, or advisor in order to best meet its client’s needs, with a comprehensive product expertise including equity & equity-linked, debt, equity derivatives and alternative paths to market.
The company helps its clients in financial distress address a wide range of capital structure matters around the world involving liquidity, debt maturity profile and quantum, liability management, optimal capital structure analysis, enterprise threatening litigation and general balance sheet matters. The company brings together senior capital structure advisory professionals with its industry, M&A and capital markets experts to provide holistic advice.
The company advises both companies and creditors, utilizing its strong relationship network to access capital, identify potential partners and drive support for its transactions. The company understands that in distressed situations, many creditors become temporary equity holders of businesses, and it helps these clients realize value which leads to further M&A activity for it. Through its full integration with its capital markets experts, the company is able to provide its clients with innovative solutions to solve their capital needs.
The company also provides global strategic advisory and distribution to private fund sponsors, including secondary market advisory, tailored capital raise solutions and primary fundraising. The company’s private funds advisory team has extensive experience accessing private institutional capital on behalf of sponsors across a variety of fund types and its capabilities are fully integrated with its global platform. Combined with the firm’s leading financial sponsor franchise, sector expertise and M&A capabilities, the company delivers a range of strategic, customized solutions to its sponsor clients across a wide spectrum of strategies, including buyout, growth, real assets, special situations and sector specific strategies.
In addition, the company provides a broad range of other financial advisory services tailored to the specific circumstances and needs of its clients. For example, the company has substantial experience in advising clients on complex risk exposures, it acts as expert witness for clients in major litigation and it assists private clients and governments in negotiations of significant commercial matters.
The company seeks to generate repeat business from its clients by becoming long-term partners with them as opposed to being solely transaction focused. The company is also committed to developing new client relationships, and it maintains an active dialogue with a large number of potential clients, as well as with their financial and legal advisors, on an ongoing basis. The company continues to access new relationships through its business development initiatives, growing its senior team with professionals who bring additional client relationships and through introductions from its strong network of relationships with senior executives, board members, attorneys and other third parties.
Growth Strategy
The company’s growth strategy is to continue to take advantage of what are attractive market opportunities to enhance its leadership position as a global independent investment bank, advising its clients on important mergers and acquisitions, recapitalization and restructuring transactions and other strategic matters. The key elements of the ocmpany’s strategy are to deepen and expand its client relationships; and broaden its areas of expertise based on client needs.
Strategic Alliances
MA Financial is a firm specializing in asset management, lending, corporate advisory and equities. In connection with MA Financial’s IPO, the company and MA Financial entered into a strategic alliance agreement pursuant to which MA Financial continues to conduct its investment banking advisory business in Australia and New Zealand as an integrated part of the global advisory business of the company.
Alfaro, Dávila y Scherer, S.C.
Effective September 2, 2016, the company entered into a strategic alliance with Alfaro, Dávila y Scherer, S.C. (ADS), the independent strategic and financial advisory firm in Mexico, to provide advisory services to its global client base with a focus on cross-border transactions. ADS’s successful track record of developing long-term relationships and advising multinational corporations and privately held companies in strategic transactions benefits the company’s global clients looking to expand into Mexico or for Mexican corporates eager to grow internationally. With this strategic alliance, coupled with its office in Brazil, Moelis & Company has a presence in the two largest markets in Latin America.
Regulation
As a matter of public policy, regulatory bodies in the U.S. and the rest of the world are charged with safeguarding the integrity of the securities and other financial markets and with protecting the interests of customers participating in those markets, not with protecting the interests of the company’s stockholders or creditors. In the U.S., the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) is the federal agency responsible for the administration of the federal securities laws. Moelis & Company LLC, the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary through which it conducts its financial advisory business in the U.S., is registered as a broker-dealer with the SEC. Moelis & Company LLC is subject to regulation and oversight by the SEC. In addition, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA), a self-regulatory organization that is subject to oversight by the SEC, adopts and enforces rules governing the conduct, and examines the activities, of its member firms, including Moelis & Company LLC. State securities regulators also have regulatory or oversight authority over Moelis & Company LLC.
In particular, as a registered broker-dealer and member of a self-regulatory organization, the company is subject to the SEC’s uniform net capital rule, Rule 15c3-1. Rule 15c3-1 specifies the minimum level of net capital a broker-dealer must maintain and also requires that a significant part of a broker-dealer’s assets be kept in relatively liquid form. In addition to the regulation, the company is subject to in the United States, it is also subject to regulation internationally by the Financial Conduct Authority in the United Kingdom, the Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong, the Dubai Financial Services Authority, the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets, and the Securities and Exchange Board of India.
Federal anti-money-laundering laws make it a criminal offense to own or operate a money transmitting business without the appropriate state licenses, which the company maintains, and registration with the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). In addition, the Bank Secrecy Act, USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 and the Treasury Department’s implementing federal regulations require the company, as a financial institution, to establish and maintain an anti-money-laundering program.
History
Moelis & Company was founded in 2007. The company was incorporated in Delaware in 2014.