Company: HLI
Filing Date: 2025-07-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001302215-25-000084
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Company: HOULIHAN LOKEY, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-07-25
Form: DEF 14A
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 is responsible for the preparation and presentation of the Company’s financial statements, the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, and procedures that are reasonably designed to assure compliance with accounting standards and applicable laws and regulations. The Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, KPMG, is responsible for performing an independent audit of the Company’s financial statements in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. The Audit Committee does not itself prepare financial statements or perform audits, and its members are not auditors or certifiers of the Company’s financial statements or disclosures.

The Audit Committee has reviewed and discussed the audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025 with the Company’s management and KPMG. The Audit Committee has discussed with the independent auditors the matters required to be discussed by the statement on Auditing Standards No. 61, as amended (AICPA, Professional Standards, Vol. 1. AU section 380), as adopted by the PCAOB in Rule 3200T.

The Audit Committee has received the written disclosures and the letter from KPMG required by applicable requirements of the PCAOB regarding KPMG’s communications with the Audit Committee concerning independence, and has discussed with KPMG its independence.

Based on such review and discussions, the Audit Committee recommended to the Company’s board of directors that the financial statements referred to above be included in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025.

| Audit Committee                    |
| Robert A. Schriesheim, Chairperson |
| Dr. Jacqueline B. Kosecoff         |
| Paul A. Zuber                      |
| Gillian B. Zucker                  |

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### ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

### Procedures for Submitting Stockholder Proposals
Stockholder proposals intended to be presented at the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “2026 Meeting”), pursuant to Exchange Act Rule 14a-8 must be delivered to the Corporate Secretary at our principal executive offices no later than March 27, 2026 in order to be included in the proxy materials for that meeting. Such proposals must also comply with all applicable provisions of Exchange Act Rule 14a-8 and our amended and restated bylaws.

Under our amended and restated bylaws, for stockholder proposals submitted for consideration at any annual meeting of stockholders, but not submitted for inclusion in our proxy materials pursuant to Exchange Act Rule 14a-8, including nominations of candidates for election as directors, notice