Moelis & Company provides financial advisory services to corporations, institutions, and governments worldwide. In addition to New York, Moelis has offices in Amsterdam, Beijing, Boston, Chicago, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, Paris, San Francisco, West Palm Beach, Sao Paulo, Tel Aviv, and Washington, D.C. Its global footprint also includes strategic alliances with MA Financial Group in Australia and Alfaro, Dávila y Scherer in Mexico. 

The firm went public in April 2014 and now employs approximately 1,000 people worldwide. It has advised on more than $3.5 trillion in transactions since its founding, and is led by founder and namesake Ken Moelis, who rose to fame in the early 1980s, working at Drexel Burnam Lambert. After a successful career at Donald Lufkin & Jenrette Securities (DLJ), Moelis was lured to UBS in 2000. He recruited several DLJ bankers to join him and promptly turned UBS Investment Bank into a global powerhouse. In 2007, he resigned from UBS and formed his eponymous firm. To build Moelis & Company’s global network, Moelis turned to contacts made throughout his career, some of which he had known since his DLJ days. He also persuaded several top UBS executives and other senior industry bankers to join him, including the firm’s current Co-Presidents Navid Mahmoodzadegan and Jeff Raich and Chief Operating Officer Elizabeth Crain.