Business Unit:
Corporate Finance
Industry:
Financial Institutions


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.


Corporate Finance
Houlihan Lokey has extensive expertise in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, activist shareholder and takeover defense, and other related advisory services for a broad range of U.S. and international clients. Our experience in M&A has earned us consistent recognition throughout the industry. In 2025, LSEG ranked our firm the No. 1 investment bank for all global M&A transactions.


Financial Services
Houlihan Lokey’s Financial Services Group has earned a reputation for providing superior service and achieving outstanding results in M&A advisory, capital- raising, restructuring, and financial and valuation advisory services.
The global Houlihan Lokey Financial Services team has more than 80 dedicated financial professionals with senior officers located in five offices around the world, including Chicago, Miami, New York, and Tokyo.
As a leading M&A advisor, Houlihan Lokey’s Financial Services Group covers virtually every segment of financial services, including (i) specialty finance companies, including consumer and commercial finance, (ii) insurance companies, brokers, and TPAs, (iii) asset and wealth managers, (iv) mortgage lenders and service providers, and (v) broker-dealers and institutional securities firms. Additionally, the group works with financial technology and software providers specializing in each of these sub-verticals.
Job Description
In Corporate Finance, Summer Financial Analysts may work on a variety of transactions that provide exposure to various investment banking services and client industries. These services include mergers and acquisitions, private placements of debt and equit