Company: HLI
Filing Date: 2025-07-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001302215-25-000084
Chunk: 22

Company: HOULIHAN LOKEY, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-07-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 22
---
 of meetings of the board of directors and committees on which the director served. Under our corporate governance guidelines, directors are expected to attend the Company’s annual meetings of stockholders, either in person or by telephone. A director who is unable to attend an annual meeting of stockholders (which it is understood will occur on occasion) is expected to notify the chairman of the board of directors. All of our directors attended the 2024 annual meeting of stockholders in person or by telephone.

The Lead Independent Director, or in his absence, a director designated by the Lead Independent Director, presides over executive sessions of the independent directors, which are held on a regularly scheduled basis, not less than once per year.

#### Communication with the Board of Directors
Any stockholder or other interested parties who would like to communicate with the board of directors, the independent directors as a group or any specific member or members of the board of directors should send such communications to the attention of our General Counsel and Secretary at Houlihan Lokey, Inc., 10250 Constellation Blvd., 5 th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90067. Communications should contain instructions specifying for which member or members of the board of directors the communication is intended. Such communications generally will be forwarded to the intended recipients. However, our General Counsel and Secretary may, in his sole discretion, decline to forward any communications that are inappropriate.

Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation

During all of fiscal 2025, the members of our Compensation Committee were Ms. Bassey, Mr. Schriesheim, and Ms. Zucker, with Ms. Zucker serving as chairperson. None of the members of our Compensation Committee have ever been an officer or employee of the Company or any of our subsidiaries. No member of our Compensation Committee has a relationship that must be described under the SEC rules relating to disclosure of related person transactions. None of our executive officers currently serve, or have served during the last completed fiscal year, on the compensation committee or board of directors of any other entity that has one or more executive officers serving as a member of our board of directors or Compensation Committee.

#### Board Committees
We currently have three standing committees, an Audit Committee, a Compensation Committee, and a Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Current copies of each committee’s charter are posted on our website, www.hl.com. The information on any of our websites is deemed not to be incorporated in or be a part of this Proxy Statement or any other document filed with or furnished to the SEC.

#### Audit Committee