Houlihan Lokey, Inc.

Houlihan Lokey, Inc. is an advisory company specializing in financial restrucuturing, mergers and acquisitions, capital market services, and financial and valuation advisory services. Since its inception in 1972, the company has grown exponentially as it continues to provide superior financial advisory services worldwide. As a result, Houlihan Lokey has established offices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific region.

The company is divided into three core segments: Corporate Finance, Financial Restructuring, and Financial and Valuation Advisory. Through its Corporate Finance segment, Houlihan Lokey provides a variety of services including buy-side and sell-side transactions, leveraged loans, private mezzanine debt, high-yield debt, initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, convertibles, equity private placements, private equity, and liability management transactions. The company also advises financial sponsors on various transactions.

The Financial Restructuring segment focuses on advising debtors, creditors, and other parties-in-interest related to recapitalization/deleveraging transactions. Within this segment, the company offers a wide range of services including structuring, negotiation, and confirmation of plans of reorganization; structuring and analysis of exchange offers; corporate viability assessment; dispute resolution; expert testimony; and procuring debtor-in-possession financing.

Meanwhile, the Financial and Valuation Advisory segment provides services related to financial valuations of companies, illiquid debt and equity securities, and intellectual property. Houlihan Lokey also offers fairness opinions in connection with M&A and other transactions, solvency opinions in connection with corporate spin-offs and dividend recapitalizations, and other types of financial opinions. This segment also provides dispute resolution services.

Since its founding in 1972, Houlihan Lokey has continually increased its global presence and services, and has become a leading provider of financial advisory services. The company has provided services to a variety of companies, institutions, and governments, and was named a “Star Player” in the Mergermarket Global M&A League Tables for 2018. Additionally, Houlihan Lokey has been named an “Investment Bank of the Year” by Global M&A Network in 2018, and was ranked as the number one financial advisor overall in the U.S. across all industries by Bloomberg in 2017. In 2016, Houlihan Lokey was also recognized as the Financial Times’ U.S. Investment Bank of the Year in the Americas. To this day, Houlihan Lokey continues to provide top-notch services in the global financial market.