AEA Investors has acquired Eagle Suspension, Dallas Spring Canada and Titan Durant Land. Financial terms of the transaction, which closed Nov. 5, were not announced. Eagle-Dallas designs and engineers multi-leaf and parabolic leaf springs and support beams for aftermarket and OEM heavy-duty truck suspension systems. Houlihan Lokey advised Eagle-Dallas.

Houlihan Lokey has appointed Magnus Scaddan to its London office as a managing director and head of consumer and retail, EMEA. Scaddan reports jointly to Jay Novak, managing director and head of the consumer, food and retail Group and Stephen Winningham, managing director and co-head of corporate finance, Europe. PRESS RELEASE Houlihan Lokey, the international [...]

Houlihan Lokey has appointed Linda Maxwell to the firm’s aerospace, defense and government investment banking group. Maxwell is based in Washington, D.C. and reports to Anita Antenucci, senior managing director and head of the ADG Group. PRESS RELEASE Houlihan Lokey, the international investment bank, today announced that Linda Maxwell has joined the firm’s Aerospace, Defense [...]

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Joshua Tanzer has joined Houlihan Lokey as an MD and head of the private growth equity capital practice. Tanzer previously served as an MD in Morgan Keegan’s technology group. PRESS RELEASE Houlihan Lokey, an international investment bank, today announced that Joshua Tanzer has joined the firm as Managing Director and Head of the Private Growth [...]

Ryan O’Toole has joined Houlihan Lokey as a director in the Aerospace•Defense•Government (ADG) Group. O’Toole was most recently a director at Lazard Frères & Co. PRESS RELEASE Houlihan Lokey, an international investment bank, today announced that Ryan O’Toole has joined the firm as a Director in the Aerospace•Defense•Government (ADG) Group. Mr. O’Toole, formerly of Lazard, [...]

John Rakowski has joined Clearsight Advisors as a director. He joins Clearsight from Carl Marks Advisory Group where he focused on M&A and financial restructuring deals. Before this, Rakowski was with Houlihan Lokey’s business services practice. PRESS RELEASE Business Services and Technology investment bank, Clearsight Advisors, announced today that John Rakowski has joined as a [...]

The New York-based investment bank Houlihan Lokey has hired Sean Windsor as a director. Windsor, previously a senior managing director at FTI Consulting, as well as a director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, is the latest hire to join Houlihan Lokey’s Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) practice. PRESS RELEASE: Houlihan Lokey, an international investment bank, today announced that Sean Windsor has [...]

Private equity may be interested in YoCrunch but they may not be able to bid for it.

Catterton Partners has put YoCrunch up for sale, several sources say. Houlihan Lokey is advising on the process, the persons say.

Greenwich, Conn.-based Catterton decided to talk to a limited number of parties after receiving inquiries from strategics about YoCrunch, a person says. However, the process is limited to strategics, the source says.

A team of ex-Houlihan Lokey bankers have started their own firm to advise growth companies in the Washington D.C. area.

The executives, all from Houlihan’s business services group, formed Clearsight Advisors in July, says Joel Kallett, who is the firm’s co-founder and MD. Kallett is joined at Clearsight by Greg Treger, also a co-founder and MD; Bhavin Patel, a vice president; and, Bethany Seidler, director of administration.

Clearsight, based in McLean, Va., will target growth companies in technology and services with $25 million to $200 million in enterprise value, says Kallett.