Company: HLI
Filing Date: 2025-07-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001302215-25-000084
Chunk: 30

Company: HOULIHAN LOKEY, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-07-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 30
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 fiscal 2024 to fiscal 2025. At our 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, approximately 97% of votes cast were voted in favor of our say-on-pay proposal, which we believe affirms our stockholders’ support of our approach to our executive compensation program. As we did last year, we will hold at our 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders a non-binding stockholder advisory vote to approve the compensation paid to our named executive officers.

### Business and Strategy
Established in 1972, Houlihan Lokey, Inc. is a leading global independent investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions (“M&A”), capital markets, financial restructurings and liability management, and financial and valuation advisory. Through our offices in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Middle East, we serve a diverse set of clients worldwide, including corporations, financial sponsors and government agencies. We provide our financial professionals with an integrated platform that enables them to deliver meaningful and differentiated advice to our clients. We advise our clients on critical strategic and financial decisions, employing a rigorous analytical approach coupled with deep product and industry expertise. We market our services through our product areas, our industry groups and our Financial Sponsors group, serving our clients in three primary business practices: Corporate Finance, encompassing M&A and Capital Solutions, Financial Restructuring, including restructurings both out-of-court and in formal bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings, and Financial and Valuation Advisory, including financial opinions and a variety of valuation and financial consulting services.

We are committed to a set of principles that serve as the backbone of our success. Independent advice and intellectual rigor, combined with consistent senior-level involvement, are hallmarks of our commitment to client service. Our entrepreneurial culture engenders our flexibility to collaborate across our business practices to provide world-class solutions for our clients. Our broad-based employee ownership serves to align the interests of employees and shareholders and further encourages a collaborative environment where our Corporate Finance, Financial Restructuring, and Financial and Valuation Advisory professionals work together productively and creatively to solve our clients’ most critical financial issues. We enter into businesses or offer services where we believe we can excel based on our expertise, analytical sophistication, industry focus and competitive dynamics. Finally, we remain independent and specialized, focusing on advisory products and market segments where our expertise is both differentiating and less subject to conflicts of interest arising from non-advisory products and services, and where we believe we can be a market leader in a particular segment. We