Joshua Pearl

Joshua Pearl is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Hickory Lane Capital Management LP, where he focuses on equity investments and special situations utilizing a fundamentals-based approach. Prior to founding Hickory Lane, for nine years he served as a Managing Director and Partner at Brahman Capital, an equity long/short manager focused on investing with best-in-class management teams. Prior to his investing career, he spent eight years as an investment banker at UBS Investment Bank, Moelis & Company, and Deutsche Bank focusing on high yield financings, leveraged buyouts, restructurings, mergers & acquisitions, activism, and board advisory. He is also the co-author of several books, including Investment Banking: Valuation, LBOs, M&A, and IPOs and The Little Book of Investing Like the Pros.

His books are used in over 200 universities globally. He has been profiled across numerous media outlets including CNBC, Institutional Investor, AlphaWeek, Bloomberg Markets, Newsmax, The UK Telegraph, The Charles Mizrahi Show, The Princeton Financier, and Harvard College Investment Magazine. He has corporate partnerships with Nasdaq, the leading U.S. exchange and technology provider for IPOs and new listings; global law firm Latham & Watkins, the #1 IPO adviser and #1 public M&A adviser; Datasite, the #1 provider in M&A lifecycle software, and Altrum, the global leader in custom deal toys and financial tombstones. He earned his B.S. in Business from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business in 2003. Joshua grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and currently resides in New York, New York with his family.