Company: HLI
Filing Date: 2025-05-15
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001302215-25-000024
Chunk: 16

Company: HOULIHAN LOKEY, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-05-15
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 16
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. We operate in all major worldwide markets as debt issuances have increased around the world. Our FR professionals bring to bear deep expertise and experience in restructurings in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa. Given the depth and breadth of the team’s expertise and the high barriers to entry for this expertise and experience, international and multi-jurisdictional restructurings represent an attractive opportunity for our FR group.

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The group employs an interdisciplinary approach to engagements, calling upon the expertise of our industry groups, Capital Solutions group and Financial Sponsors group, and drawing on the worldwide resources of the FR team as each situation may require. The FR group has deep experience evaluating complex, highly leveraged situations. In addition to comprehensive financial restructuring and liability management transactions, we work with distressed companies on changes of control, asset sales and other M&A and capital markets activities, many times involving the sale of a company or its assets quickly, and in contested or litigious settings on expedited timeframes. We advise companies and creditor constituencies at all levels of the capital structure, in both out-of-court negotiations and in formal bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings. Our experience, geographic diversity and size allow us to provide the immediate attention and staffing required for time-sensitive and mission-critical restructuring and liability management assignments, making us a valued partner for our clients.

Our dedicated team is active throughout business cycles. Our FR practice serves as a countercyclical hedge across macroeconomic cycles, with increasing levels of restructuring opportunities often occurring during periods when demand for M&A and capital markets advisory services may be reduced. In robust macroeconomic environments, demand for the services of our FR team generally continues due to opportunities arising from secular and cyclical disruptions in certain industries. Our geographic diversity and global market leadership allow our FR group to maintain significant levels of activity even when the U.S. capital markets are vibrant.

Our broad base of clients and our extensive experience allow us to understand the dynamics of each restructuring situation and strengthen our negotiating strategies by providing us insight into the needs, attitudes and positions of all parties-in-interest. Our clients include companies, bondholder groups, financial institutions, banks and other secured creditor groups, trade creditors, official Chapter 11 creditors’ committees, equity holders, acquirers, equity sponsors, and other parties-in-interest involved with financially challenged companies.

Our FR professionals work closely with our CF and FVA professionals to provide holistic advice and services.

Financial and Valuation Advisory

As of March 31