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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 due diligence on financial, cyber, and legal risks.

Our board is committed to our sustainability initiatives. They provide feedback on our strategies and approach and participate in engagement opportunities with employees. In setting and overseeing corporate strategy, the board, along with our senior management, considers the risks and opportunities that impact the long-term sustainability and value creation of the Company’s business model.

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#### Stockholder Engagement
We actively engage with a significant and diverse group of our stockholders on topics important to them and to our Company. Historically, topics discussed have included governance practices, including board composition and oversight, business strategy, and our approach to key human capital issues such as talent recruitment, development and retention, opportunity and engagement, integration of sustainability within our client services, and other sustainability initiatives. In addition, our senior management and Investor Relations team frequently engages with investors.

Insights from these engagements are discussed by the board periodically throughout the year. During these discussions, feedback and votes from prior annual meetings are considered to ensure that we are addressing issues that represent the interests of a wide array of stockholders. We plan to continue stockholder and stakeholder outreach and strive to understand priorities from all perspectives. We expect that the outreach program, which is overseen by our board, will encompass both traditional and new topics based on our stockholders’ priorities.

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### DIRECTOR COMPENSATION

### Overview
We maintain a Director Compensation Program which is applicable for our directors who are not, or were not during the applicable period, our employees (each an “outside director”). Directors who were not outside directors did not receive compensation for their services as directors in fiscal 2025.

Each director is reimbursed for their travel expenses incurred in connection with his or her attendance at board of directors or committee meetings.

The following describes the Director Compensation Program as in effect for fiscal year 2025.

#### Fiscal 2025 Outside Director Compensation
In May 2024, our board of directors amended our Director Compensation Program to increase (i) the annual cash retainer to $100,000, (ii) the Annual Director Award (defined below) to $100,000, and (iii) the Committee Chair Award (defined below) to $50,000 for the chairperson of the Audit Committee, and $30,000 for the chairpersons of the Compensation Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. In reaching this decision, the board considered, among other things, market data obtained by WTW with respect to comparable public companies. These