Financial Analyst | General Partner Advisory | New York

Business Unit: Capital Solutions Industry: No Industry 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 more than 170 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 decisions a GP will make. The global alternative asset management industry is on track to surpass $20 trillion in AUM. Demand for what we do has never been stronger, and it is not reliant on the traditional M&A cycle. The Role As a Financial Analyst on the GPA team, you will be a full participant in live M&A transactions from day one. Analysts at GPA work directly alongside Managing Directors and Vice Presidents on every stage of our sell-side processes, including: Transaction execution: Driving sell-side M&A processes end-to-end, from initial mandate through CIM drafting, model creation, buyer diligence, and closing Financial modeling: Building and owning the financial models, valuations, and supplementary analyses that underpin our client recommendations Client materials: Helping the managing partners of top-tier private capital platforms articulate what makes their firms must-own businesses, through CIMs, management presentations, and deal documents that go directly to the most sophisticated institutional GP stake buyers in the world Who We're Looking For We don't run a large analyst class. We hire selectively, train intensively, and expect analysts to contribute quickly. If you are looking for a program with many new Analysts joining your team each year, we are not the right fit. If you want to become an expert quickly, on a lean team, in a field growing faster than almost anything else in finance, this is where to do it. Required Graduating with a bachelor's or master's degree between December 2025 and June 2026 Intellectual curiosity about private markets, alternative asset management, and the evolving landscape of GP economics Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; our work product goes to the CEOs and CFOs of leading private capital firms A strong work ethic and the drive to take ownership of your work product Preferred Proficiency in financial modeling (Excel) and a solid foundation in valuation methodologies (DCF, comparable companies, precedent transactions) Familiarity with or strong interest in the private capital ecosystem: private equity fund structures, management company economics, carried interest, and GP/LP dynamics A Note for Candidates GPA is a growing team. Analysts her