Mike serves as Chief Executive Officer of Anvil and focuses on origination, structuring and negotiation of new investment opportunities. Prior to Anvil, Mike led Houlihan Lokey’s oil and gas capital markets business, with responsibility for advising, structuring, and raising capital on behalf of the firm’s oil and gas clients. Mike has more than two decades of oil and gas corporate finance experience. He joined Houlihan Lokey in 2016 from The Carlyle Group, where he was a Principal in the Energy Mezzanine Opportunities Group. Prior to that, he spent almost 15 years at Scotiabank, where he focused on originating, structuring, and syndicating capital markets solutions for energy clients. Over the course of his career, Mr. Roberts has advised on capital formation for acquisitions, recapitalizations, asset development, and special situations, as well as originating and structuring joint ventures, mezzanine debt, and structured equity solutions as a principal investor. 

Mr. Roberts graduated with honors from Texas A&M University with a B.B.A. in Finance and holds an MBA from the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University, where he was a Jones Scholar.