Company: HLI
Filing Date: 2025-07-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001302215-25-000084
Chunk: 8

Company: HOULIHAN LOKEY, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-07-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 8
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 terms. At each Annual Meeting of stockholders after the initial classification, the successors to the directors whose terms will then expire will be elected to serve from the time of election and qualification until the third Annual Meeting following their election. Our directors currently are divided among the three classes as follows:

• the Class I directors are Scott L. Beiser, Todd J. Carter, Jacqueline B. Kosecoff, and Paul A. Zuber, and their terms will expire at the Annual Meeting;

• the Class II directors are Irwin N. Gold, Cyrus D. Walker, and Gillian B. Zucker, and their terms will expire at the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2026; and

• the Class III directors are Scott J. Adelson, Ekpedeme M. Bassey, P. Eric Siegert, and Robert A. Schriesheim, and their terms will expire at the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2027.

At the Annual Meeting, the stockholders will vote to elect as Class I directors of the Company the three nominees named in this Proxy Statement. Each of the Class I directors elected at the Annual Meeting will hold office until the 2028 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until their successor has been duly elected and qualified. The board of directors has nominated Messrs. Beiser, Carter, and Zuber for re-election to serve as the Class I directors of the Company. Dr. Kosecoff’s term of office will expire at the Annual Meeting. As a result, and effective as of the Annual Meeting, the size of our board of directors will be reduced to ten directors, and the total number of authorized directors constituting Class I directors will correspondingly be reduced to three. The persons named as proxies will vote to elect these nominees unless a stockholder indicates that their shares should be withheld with respect to one or more of such nominees.

We expect the Trustees of the HL Voting Trust to vote in favor of the three nominees for Class I directors. Please see “Certain Relationships and Related Person Transactions,” below for a description of the HL Voting Trust Agreement.

In the event that any nominee for director becomes unavailable or declines to serve as a director at the time of the Annual Meeting, the persons named as proxies will vote the proxies in their discretion for any nominee who is designated by the current board of directors to fill the vacancy. All of the nominees are currently serving as directors and we do not expect that any of the nominees will be unavailable or will decline to