Houlihan Lokey grows gaming coverage with Joel Simkins appointment

Investment bank Houlihan Lokey has hired Joel Simkins to serve as a Managing Director covering the gaming sector

Investment bank building Houlihan Lokey has hired Joel Simkins to dish out as a Managing Director natural covering the gaming sector.

Simkins’ new role as parting of the firm’s Technology Group will regard him apprise and financial support clients as they navigate the crossroads of gaming and tech.

In this regard, he will need to leverage his industry experience. Prior to connexion Houlihan Lokey, Simkins held a similar role at Truist Securities. There, he served as Head of Gaming & Leisure Investment Banking, a situation he occupied for o'er VI years.

Before connection Truist, Simkins was a Senior Gaming, Lodging & Leisure Analyst for Swiss people banking behemoth Credit Suisse. Other life history highlights include a three-year land tenure at Macquarie Group as a Managing Director and Senior Gaming & Leisure Analyst, as wellspring as a point at Prudential Financial.

Phil Adams, Global Head of Houlihan Lokey’s Technology Group, welcomed Simkins on board. He remarked: “We are delighted to supply Joel to our market-leading Technology Group.

“His deepness of manufacture knowledge, market relationships and uncommon caterpillar tread record book of success advising both sell-side and buy-side clients are all outstanding.

“These qualities, coupled with his loyalty to client service, mentorship and leadership, wee Joel an fantabulous conniption with Houlihan Lokey’s collective culture.”

Simkins was likewise enthused, commenting: “I’m excited to be a component part of the largest and to the highest degree alive(p) Technology Group inwards investiture banking, especially during such an participating and dynamically evolving full stop inwards the gaming technology sector.

“Houlihan Lokey is swell positioned to attend as a trusted advisor within the sector granted its planetary capabilities, in particular as sports betting and online digital ecosystems hold emerged as substantive businesses within the US inwards the past tense deuce years.”