Our Team
SMI Group’s senior professionals are directly involved in every transaction. Our senior professionals are augmented by our seasoned advisors, associates, analysts and other professionals retained by SMI Group for specific assignments. This commitment to providing hands-on experienced leadership is at the heart of our success and growth.
Our senior professionals have considerable experience leading businesses and transactions and advising corporations, financial institutions and individual investors. The team has experience in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Our professionals’ experience includes:
Our senior professionals have invested in, and served as chairmen, presidents and CEOs of companies in alternative and traditional energy, banking, beauty products, broadcasting, construction and infrastructure, consumer products, education, entertainment, finance, food products, wealth management, manufacturing, media, publishing, real estate, technology, telecommunications and wealth management.
Many of our senior professionals previously also were investment bankers and lawyers with global firms, including, among others: Merrill Lynch; Clifford Chance LLP; Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP; Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP; Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP; and Shearman & Sterling LLP. One our professionals currently leads the substantial real estate practice group for one of Los Angeles’ leading law firms. Three of our professionals are partners or of counsel to law firms that specialize in mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and complex financial transactions and real estate.
Iconic companies and assets sold or acquired by our senior professionals include, among many others: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Artists, MGM Grand, Bally’s, Desert Inn (now Wynn Hotel), Sands (now, the Venetian), Dunes (now Bellagio), Earls Court/Olympia (largest exhibition center in London), MITEC (largest exhibition center in Malaysia), Metro Traffic Networks, Premiere Radio Networks and major infrastructure projects throughout Southeast Asia. Our senior professionals have advised hundreds of other major corporations and properties.
Advisors: SMI Group’s other advisors include, among others:
Our senior professionals have considerable experience leading businesses and transactions and advising corporations, financial institutions and individual investors. The team has experience in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, including:
Our senior professionals have invested in, and served as chairmen, presidents and CEOs of companies in alternative and traditional energy, banking, beauty products, broadcasting, construction and infrastructure, consumer products, education, entertainment, finance, food products, wealth management, manufacturing, media, publishing, real estate, technology, telecommunications and wealth management.
Many of our senior professionals previously also were investment bankers and lawyers with global firms, including, among others: Merrill Lynch; Clifford Chance LLP; Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP; Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP; Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP; and Shearman & Sterling LLP. One of our professionals currently leads the substantial real estate practice group for one of Los Angeles’ leading law firms. Three of our professionals are partners or of counsel to law firms that specialize in mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and complex financial transactions and real estate.
Iconic companies and assets sold or acquired by our senior professionals include, among many others: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Artists, MGM Grand, Bally’s, Desert Inn (now Wynn Hotel), Sands (now, the Venetian), Dunes (now Bellagio), Earls Court/Olympia (largest exhibition center in London), MITEC (largest exhibition center in Malaysia), Metro Traffic Networks, Premiere Radio Networks and major infrastructure projects throughout Southeast Asia. Our senior professionals have advised hundreds of other major corporations and properties.
In addition to our senior professionals, SMI Group’s advisors include, among others: