Houlihan Lokey has agreed to acquire McQueen Limited, a London-based independent advisory firm that provides corporate finance and other strategic advisory services to clients in the consumer sector.

Established in 2002, McQueen is a leading specialist corporate finance advisor to the European consumer sector. The firm’s core areas of focus include food, beverage & agribusiness, leisure & gaming, and retail & consumer brands. Since its foundation, the firm has had an advisory role in more than 100 transactions worth more than €10 billion, and has worked with some of the largest and best-known companies in the sector, including Heinz, Thai Union, Mane Group, Morrisons, ABF, Paddy Power, and Unibet. 

The McQueen team will be integrated into our Consumer, Food & Retail (CFR) Group in the London office. The McQueen acquisition is anticipated to grow CFR Group to more than 45 professionals across London, New York, Chicago, Dallas, and San Francisco, and to create one of the largest dedicated Consumer practices in the industry. In 2014, Houlihan Lokey’s CFR Group ranked No. 1 for all U.S. M&A transactions and No. 1 for all North American M&A transactions, according to Thomson Reuters.