Houlihan Lokey

(NYSE: HLI · $131.31 ▼ 1.4%) Houlihan Lokey, Inc. (NYSE:HLI) is a global investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital solutions, financial restructuring, and financial and valuation advisory. Houlihan Lokey serves corporations, institutions, and governments worldwide with offices in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific region. Independent advice and intellectual rigor are hallmarks of the firm’s commitment to client success across its advisory services. The firm is the No. 1 investment bank for all global M&A transactions for the past two years, the No. 1 M&A advisor for the past 10 years in the U.S., the No. 1 global restructuring advisor for the past 11 years, and the No. 1 global M&A fairness opinion advisor over the past 25 years, all based on number of transactions and according to data provided by LSEG.

Houlihan Lokey organizes its sector coverage through nine dedicated industry groups alongside a financial sponsors effort, and it advises clients on financial and strategic challenges at each stage of the business life cycle. On transactions, the firm acts in roles such as sellside advisor, buyside advisor, financing advisor, fairness opinion provider, placement agent for private equity funds and debt financings, and company or creditors committee advisor in restructurings and Chapter 11 proceedings.

The company publishes sector market updates and research, maintains a Private Credit DataBank, and hosts Capital Revolution, a podcast series on alternative capital and private markets. It reports a Net Promoter Score of +77 and a client satisfaction rating of 95%, and it describes its community activities as including charitable work and the promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion.