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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 will mail our stockholders a Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials containing instructions on how to access our Proxy Statement and our 2025 Annual Report on Form 10-K (“Form 10-K”).

Houlihan Lokey, Inc. (NYSE:HLI) is a global investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital solutions, financial restructuring, and financial and valuation advisory. Houlihan Lokey serves corporations, institutions, and governments worldwide with offices in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia Pacific region. Independent advice and intellectual rigor are hallmarks of the firm’s commitment to client success across its advisory services. The firm is the No. 1 investment bank for all global M&A transactions for the past two years, the No. 1 M&A advisor for the past 10 years in the U.S., the No. 1 global restructuring advisor for the past 11 years, and the No. 1 global M&A fairness opinion advisor over the past 25 years, all based on number of transactions and according to data provided by LSEG.

Unless the context otherwise requires, as used in this Proxy Statement, the terms the “Company,” “Houlihan Lokey, Inc.,” “Houlihan Lokey,” “HL,” "our firm,” “we,” “us” and “our” refer to Houlihan Lokey, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and, in each case, unless otherwise stated, all of its subsidiaries. References to the “IPO” mean our initial public offering in August 2015 of 12,075,000 shares of Houlihan Lokey, Inc. Class A common stock. We use the term “HL Holders” to refer to our current and former employees and members of our management who hold our Class B common stock through the Houlihan Lokey Voting Trust (the "HL Voting Trust"). Our fiscal year ends on March 31; references to fiscal 2025, fiscal 2024, and fiscal 2023 are to our fiscal years ended March 31, 2025, 2024, and 2023, respectively; references in this Proxy Statement to years are to calendar years unless otherwise noted.

Below are answers to common questions stockholders may have about the Proxy Materials and the Annual Meeting.

#### What are the Proxy Materials?
The “Proxy Materials” are this Proxy Statement and our Form 10-K. If you request printed versions of the Proxy Materials, and you are