Christopher Wilson

Mr. Wilson is a Managing Director in Houlihan Lokey’s Business Services Group and serves as Co-Head of the firm’s Training & Education practice. He is based in the firm’s Los Angeles office.

Mr. Wilson’s recent M&A transactions in the training and education space include Colibri’s acquisition of Becker Professional Education and OnCourse Learning; Ridgemont Equity’s investment in Teachers of Tomorrow; the sale of itslearning, an EQT portfolio company, to Sanoma; the sale of the Assessments Division of the American Institutes for Research to Cambium Learning, a Veritas portfolio company; the sale of Skillsoft to Churchill Capital Corp II; the sale of Corporate Visions to the Riverside Company; and the sale of EducationDynamics to Renovus.

Mr. Wilson previously founded Houlihan Lokey’s Technology Group, where he focused on a wide range of transactions, including the sale of enTouch to RCN and the financial restructuring of Sunguard Availability Services. He is currently leading the multi-billion-dollar restructuring of Project Rural, a leading U.S. telecommunications provider.

Prior to founding the Technology Group, Mr. Wilson was a member of Houlihan Lokey’s Financial Restructuring Group, where he focused on financial restructurings of telecommunications service providers and education service providers. He played a key role in the restructurings of Education Management Corporation, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Edmentum, Cengage Learning, Synchronoss Technologies, WorldCom, ICG Communications, Asia Global Crossing, Williams Communications Group, Covad Communications, Adelphia Business Solutions, 360 Americas, and Horizon PCS.

Before joining Houlihan Lokey, Mr. Wilson was with Montgomery Securities (now BAML), specializing in media and telecommunications, M&A, and corporate finance. He was also a member of the Consumer Group of EVEREN Securities and in corporate finance with the Media and Telecommunications Group of Union Bank. He also managed proprietary trading in foreign exchange and derivatives at Drexel Burnham Lambert from 1986 until 1990.