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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2025        |
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| Time:         |     | 8:00 a.m. (Pacific Time)             |
| Place:        |     | Houlihan Lokey, Inc.                 
 10250 Constellation Blvd., 5th Floor 
 Los Angeles, CA 90067                |

We are holding our 2025 annual meeting of stockholders for the following purposes, which are described in more detail in the proxy statement:

1. to elect three Class I directors to our board of directors;

2. to approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of our named executive officers as disclosed in the accompanying Proxy Statement;

3. to ratify the appointment of KPMG LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2026; and

4. to transact any other business as may properly come before the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof.

Only stockholders of record as of the close of business on July 24, 2025 will be entitled to notice of, and to vote at the annual meeting.

As permitted by the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission, we are sending our stockholders a Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials (the “Notice”) rather than a paper set of the proxy materials. The Notice includes instructions on how to access our proxy materials over the internet, as well as how to request the materials in paper form.

Your vote is important. We encourage you to vote by proxy in advance of the meeting, whether or not you plan to attend the meeting. The Notice includes instructions on how to vote, including by internet or telephone. If you hold your shares through a brokerage firm, bank, broker-dealer or other similar organization, please follow their instructions.

| By order of the board of directors, |
| Christopher M. Crain                |
| General Counsel and Secretary       |
| July 25, 2025                       |

### IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING THE AVAILABILITY OF PROXY MATERIALS
<div align='center'>FOR THE ANNUAL MEETING TO BE HELD ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2025.

The Company’s Proxy Statement and 2025 Annual Report on Form 10-K</div>

#### are also available at www.proxyvote.com.

### TABLE OF CONTENTS
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| GENERAL INFORMATION                                         |     |    1 |
| PROPOSAL 1: ELECTION OF DIRECTORS                           |