Our Team
Said Al-Alaoui, CFA
Said Al-Alaoui is the Managing Partner of Afamia and has significant experience in corporate finance, capital raising, M&A, leveraged buyouts, financial restructuring, and operational restructuring.
Mr. Al-Alaoui is currently the chair of SoCal Security Acquisition. Previously, he was the chairman of Something Sweet and served on Portal Service, Total Transportation Services, and Western Emulsions boards. Prior to founding Afamia, he was a principal at Saybrook Capital, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm. Prior to Saybrook, Mr. Al-Alaoui helped establish the Debt Capital Markets Group at Houlihan Lokey, where he participated in public and private debt offerings. Prior thereto, Mr. Al-Alaoui worked in the Corporate Finance Group of investment and merchant banking firm Libra Securities. Mr. Al-Alaoui started his career with KPMG’s Structured Finance Group and participated in over $30 billion of securitization transactions.
Mr. Al-Alaoui received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst ® designation.
Edward Kim, MBA
Edward Kim is a Managing Director at Afamia with significant business development and buy-side experience in investment banking and private equity.
Prior to joining Afamia, Mr. Kim was a Director of Business Development covering the West Coast at Trivest Partners, a middle-market private equity firm based in Florida with over $1.5 billion of assets under management. He started his career at Harvey & Company LLC, one of the nation’s leading buy-side advisory firms. Over his 15 years at Harvey, Mr. Kim assisted on 25 closed transactions, primarily in healthcare, business services, and niche industrial product industries. While at Harvey, he worked on add-ons for portfolio companies and new platform acquisitions. Mr. Kim has been involved in over $800 million of M&A transactions throughout his career.
Mr. Kim received a dual Bachelor of Arts in Economics and International Relations from the University of Southern California and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business.