Ms. Itami specializes in helping clients navigate complex valuation and damages related matters, including valuation disputes, strategic alternatives, management buyouts, joint-venture dissolutions and post transaction disputes. She performs valuations, market and competitive analyses, product line profitability analyses, economic damages, reasonable royalty and contract compliance/royalty audits.

Ms. Itami has worked with clients in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Japan across various industries, including consumer electronics, construction material, energy, entertainment, financial services, healthcare, non-profits, oil and gas, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, private equity, professional services, real estate, retail, shipping and transportation, and technology and telecommunications. 

Prior to joining A&M, Ms. Itami was a Director at Houlihan Lokey. She served as a co-chair of the firm’s Technical Standards Committee as well as a Women and APIC community leader, while assisting Japanese companies’ with various acquisitions in the U.S. Previously, she held positions with FTI Consulting and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.

Ms. Itami earned an MBA from the Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst, and has been an Accredited Senior Appraiser with the American Society of Appraisers since 2018. Ms. Itami is fluent in Japanese and English.