Richard De Rose is a managing director in Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin’s New York office, where his primary responsibilities include providing investment banking, valuation, and transactional opinion services. He is a member of the firm’s Fairness, Solvency, and Technical Standards Committees. With over 20 years of investment banking experience, he has extensive expertise in successfully managing complex transactions across a broad spectrum of industries.

Before joining Houlihan Lokey, De Rose served as managing director in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group of Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. In that capacity, he advised clients in negotiated mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts, contested takeovers, and proxy fights, completing over 100 M&A transactions. He was also a managing director in the Bear Stearns Financial Restructuring Group advising debtors, senior lenders, bondholders, and prospective acquirers of Chapter 11 debtors and other financially distressed companies. He also served as a member of Bear Stearns’ Valuation Committee.

De Rose began his career as a corporate attorney at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. His responsibilities there included providing counsel to clients in M&A transactions and public and private securities offerings, as well as advising banks and institutional investors in connection with debt financings and troubled loan workouts.

De Rose earned a BA in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania, a PhD in philosophy from Brown University, and a JD from the New York University School of Law. He is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the American Bar Association, and the American Bankruptcy Institute. He is registered with FINRA as a General Securities Representative (Series 7 and 63) and a Limited Representative-Investment Banking (Series 79).