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Mr. Sood has served as the lead advisor in leveraged buyouts, financings, and merger & acquisition transactions aggregating several billion dollars in transaction value. For the last 12 years, he has focused on the middle market, helping his clients raise both debt and equity capital in connection with such transactions. During his career, Mr. Sood has successfully structured, marketed and closed over $5 billion in senior, subordinated, preferred stock and common equity placements. His clients have included many leading private equity firms as well as corporate entities seeking to employ highly leveraged capital structures. On numerous occasions he worked on deals involving the commitment of private equity to facilitate transactions, frequently on a principal basis.
Mr. Sood has also acquired significant experience advising management teams on merger and acquisition strategies. As a senior member of the Leveraged Finance and Corporate Finance team at Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin, Mr. Sood successfully closed numerous M&A transactions. Prior to Houlihan Lokey, Mr. Sood worked in the Leverage Finance and High Yield Group at NationsBanc Montgomery Securities, where he completed leveraged buyout, cross-border, high-yield and project finance transactions for a number of leading companies in the United States.
Mr. Sood has represented clients in a wide range of industries including automotive, manufacturing, business services, building products, textiles, engineering services and telecommunications. Former notable clients include T.M. Cobb, Malden Mills, Wyle Laboratories, Orlimar Golf, Knoll Furniture, Moseley Associates, Wilshire Associates, Airgas, Penske Truck Leasing, Hunt Manufacturing, Roseburg Forest Products, and Alcoa Fujikura Ltd.
Mr. Sood holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Molecular Biology from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and a Masters in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance from the University of Texas in Austin.
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