Brendan Houlihan

Brendan Houlihan is a Managing Director at Salem Partners, where he is responsible for the firm’s valuation practice across all industries. Salem Partners describes itself as an independent Los Angeles-based boutique investment bank and wealth management firm founded in 1997, with investment and merchant banking services spanning M&A advisory, strategic advisory, merchant banking, capital raising, valuations, and fairness opinions.

Houlihan has more than 20 years of experience in investment banking advisory and valuation. His transaction experience includes mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, financial restructuring, and debt and equity capital raising for clients in the technology, media, and entertainment industries.

His valuation work includes fairness and other financial opinions; valuation of intellectual property assets, businesses, private equity and hedge fund investments, goodwill and intangible assets, incentive compensation awards, estate and tax planning, derivatives, complex partnership and tax structures, and other structured finance assets. He also works as an expert witness in arbitration, litigation, dispute resolution, and related matters in the technology, media, and entertainment industry.

Before joining Salem Partners in 2003, Houlihan was an Associate in the Mergers and Acquisitions practice of Credit Suisse First Boston in San Francisco and an Analyst in the Technology Investment Banking practice at Warburg Dillon Read in San Francisco. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.

• Public sources do not verify Houlihan as a standalone angel investor. The supportable profile is that he is an investment banker and valuation specialist at Salem Partners.
• Salem Partners’ merchant banking model allows the firm to co-invest alongside advisory mandates; the firm says its principal investment track record spans operating companies and portfolios of media rights and intellectual property.
• Salem Partners acts as exclusive agent in private placements of debt and equity securities for companies across industries, with stated expertise in capital structures, deal terms, governance, and valuation.
• Houlihan’s likely relevance to founders is strongest where valuation, fairness opinions, complex capital structures, IP valuation, restructuring, or media/technology transaction work is central to the deal.
• Salem’s valuation practice supports public and private companies across industries and geographies, including valuation work for M&A, debt or equity financings, internal corporate planning, market-value accounting, tax treatment, and fiduciary fairness opinions.