Areas of Expertise:
  • Finance
  • Private Equity
About
 
 

Biography

Stephen Greene ('85) joined the UCLA Anderson faculty after nearly a 30-year career in private equity and investment banking. He is a specialist in mergers and acquisitions and financial restructuring, and his transaction experience includes: public and private M&A; sell-side and buy-side representations; hostile takeovers; Chapter 11 and out-of-court restructurings; capital raisings of both debt and equity; fairness opinions; and cross-border deals. He has closed more than 100 large-cap and middle-market transactions across a wide range of industry verticals, including consumer products, financial services, health care, industrials, retail and technology.

Greene focuses on value-oriented private equity investments through his family office, Crevice Capital Partners. Prior to forming Crevice Capital in 2013, he held partner-level positions in investment banking, merchant banking and private equity, including as a global equity partner at Arthur Andersen LLP, where he was responsible for various components of its U.S. corporate finance and restructuring businesses. He began his investment banking career at Houlihan, Lokey, Howard & Zukin Inc., and later became managing director in charge of Houlihan's San Francisco office.

Greene is a member of the advisory board for UCLA Anderson's Fink Center for Finance & Investments. A member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Beta Gamma Sigma honor societies, he was the recipient of a Fulbright/Hays fellowship for study in the United Kingdom.

 

Education

MBA Finance, 1985, UCLA Anderson School of Management

M.A. History, 1977, Stanford University

B.A. History, 1974, Stanford University