Business Unit:
Capital Solutions
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Overview
Houlihan Lokey, Inc. (NYSE:HLI) is a leading global investment bank recognized for delivering independent strategic and financial advice to corporations, financial sponsors, and governments. With uniquely deep industry expertise, broad international reach, and a partnership approach rooted in trust, the firm provides innovative, integrated solutions across mergers and acquisitions, capital solutions, financial restructuring, and financial and valuation advisory. Our unmatched transaction volumes provide differentiated, data-driven perspectives that help our clients achieve their most critical goals. To learn more about Houlihan Lokey, please visit HL.com.
Capital Solutions
Houlihan Lokey’s Capital Solutions Group comprises ~200 professionals globally and offers clients a broad range of tailored financing alternatives and strategic financial advice. Our team has deep senior-level relationships across the capital markets and a long track record of raising capital across varying market conditions. With deep expertise in both private and public markets, we are committed to delivering innovative, value-enhancing solutions that support long-term success for our clients.
About the Group
Houlihan Lokey's General Partner Advisory ("GPA") team operates as a focused, senior-led unit within one of the world's most powerful advisory platforms. We advise the founders and managing partners of leading private equity, private credit, real estate, and infrastructure firms on the most important firm-level decisions they will make: who will own a piece of their business, on what terms, and when.
These are not public processes you can read about on MergerMarket. They are private conversations, among the most sensitive a firm's leadership will ever have. Our clients do not advertise that they are considering a stake sale. They call us.
We run competitive sell-side processes on their behalf, negotiating outcomes that reflect the full strategic and financial value of what our clients have built.
GPA sits at the intersection of Houlihan Lokey's M&A platform (#1 globally for ten consecutive years) and its Capital Solutions platform, one of the largest private capital advisory practices in financial services. While the platform is large, GPA is a lean team offering direct interaction with our global leaders on every deal. We invest our time in high-probability strategic discussions with potential clients and live mandates, not idea books or think pieces.
Why GP Stakes? Why Now?
As alternative asset managers grow, institutionalize, and plan for generational succession, the sale of minority stakes in their management companies has become one of the most strategic decis