Company: HLI
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0001193125-25-337079
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Company: HOULIHAN LOKEY, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form: 8-K
Item: Item 1.01
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Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

On December 30, 2025, Houlihan Lokey, Inc. (the “ Company”) entered into an amended and restated voting trust agreement (the “ A& R Voting Trust Agreement”), by and among the Company and the trustees named therein (collectively, the “ Trustees”). The A& R Voting Trust Agreement amends and restates in its entirety that certain Voting Trust Agreement dated August 18, 2015, by and among the Company, certain holders of shares of Class B common stock and the initial trustees party thereto, as amended by that certain Amendment No. 1 dated August 28, 2015, and that certain Amendment No. 2 dated October 18, 2018.

The A& R Voting Trust Agreement, among other things, revises the termination provisions to provide that the A& R Voting Trust Agreement shall terminate on the earliest of (i) the written agreement of the Company and the Trustees, (ii) 10 years after the date (the “ Final Conversion Date”) on which all of the Company’s issued Class B common stock automatically converts into Class A common stock pursuant to the Company’s charter or (iii) at such time as the trust holds less than 5% of the Company’s total outstanding shares of common stock.

The A& R Voting Trust Agreement also adds a requirement that, if, at any time after the Final Conversion Date, to the extent that the trust holds more than 30% of the Company’s total outstanding shares of common stock (any such shares, “ Excess Shares”), the trustees shall vote the Excess Shares, on any proposal submitted to the stockholders of the Company, in the same proportion as the shares held by all other stockholders are voted on any such proposal.

The A& R Voting Trust Agreement also adds a provision allowing former employees who have not been employed by the Company for at least 12 months to have their shares released from the trust after the Final Conversion Date. In addition, the A& R Voting Trust Agreement expands the circumstances under which employees are permitted to withdraw shares from the trust to include withdrawals made in connection with certain pledging, hedging, monetization, or other similar transactions to the extent permitted by the Company’s insider trading policy.

In light of the fact that certain members of the Board of Directors of the Company (the “ Board”) are Trustees and certain members of the Board hold Class B common stock subject to the A