Investment Banking Associate

Job Description

Overview

Corporate Finance

Industrials

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.

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.

Over more than a decade, we have built one of the largest Industrials Groups on Wall Street. We cover the entire industrials market from a ground-up, subsector-specific model, with senior-level bankers dedicated to each of our primary coverage areas.

Our focus and transaction experience in these sectors enables us to provide our clients with access to top decision-makers at leading strategic and financial firms worldwide. Our firsthand knowledge of global players and the industry gives us insight into a variety of corporate strategies and negotiating tactics, as well as the most up-to-date local and international market intelligence—making us a trusted, objective financial advisor to our clients.

Responsibilities

Associates are an integral part of Houlihan Lokey’s business activities and play a key role in the delivery of exceptional service to our clients around the globe. Houlihan Lokey hires Associates to work specifically as part of industry aligned teams, assisting with a variety of investment banking services and transactions.
This position will be based in Houlihan Lokey’s New York office, working with their established team of Industrials Group bankers. Corporate Finance associates support all facets of new business development and investment banking engagements by:
Building relationships and maintaining direct contact with current and prospective clients
Preparing client marketing presentations
Analyzing historical and projected financial information
Developing complex financial and valuation models
Coordinating transaction execution and performing business due diligence
Participating in the development of recommendations to clients alongside senior bankers
Managing and supervising junior banking team members

Preferred Qualifications

The environment at Houlihan Lokey is collegial entrepreneurial, and as such, rewards high-performing team members that are driven to succeed with substantial responsibility. The ideal candidate should be motivated, creative and outgoing, and possess:

At least 4 years of investment banking or similar experience
An undergraduate degree with academic distinction
Advanced knowledge of accounting and finance
Extensive financial modeling experience and strong analytical abilities
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
A very high degree of intellectual curiosity and the ability to think independently
The ability to work cooperatively with all levels of staff
The ability to manage multiple projects and hit deadlines in a highly organized manner
An independent, solution-focused mindset

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