Corporate Finance Associate | Equity Private Placements

Business Unit:

Corporate Finance

Industry:

CM - Capital Markets Group

Overview

Houlihan Lokey (NYSE:HLI) is a global investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt financings, capital markets, financial restructuring, and financial and valuation advisory. The firm serves corporations, institutions, and governments worldwide with offices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific region. Independent advice and intellectual rigor are hallmarks of the firm’s commitment to client success across its advisory services.

Houlihan Lokey is the No. 1 investment bank for global M&A transactions under $1 billion, the No. 1 M&A advisor for the past eight consecutive years in the U.S., the No. 1 global restructuring advisor for the past nine consecutive years, and the No. 1 global M&A fairness opinion advisor over the past 25 years, all based on number of transactions and according to data provided by Refinitiv.

Capital Markets

Houlihan Lokey’s Capital Markets Group provides capital-raising services for a wide variety of clients, from large, publicly held, multinational corporations to privately held companies either sponsor-backed or founded and run by entrepreneurs. In partnership with our Industry Coverage teams and Financial Sponsors Group, we combine superior sector knowledge and relationships with significant expertise in structuring and syndicating financings.

Our Equity Private Placements team within the Capital Markets Group originates, structures, and executes private financings on behalf of the firm’s corporate and financial sponsor clients across numerous industries. Members of the Equity Private Placements team work closely with a range of sponsor-backed, family-owned, public, and privately-owned clients, as well as with Houlihan Lokey’s industry coverage, M&A, and financial restructuring teams.

The team executes a variety of private financing transactions, such as growth equity, structured equity, Private Investments in Public Equities (PIPEs), co-invest equity, and growth /venture debt placements for a variety of situations, including growth capital, acquisition financings, refinancings, dividend recapitalizations, leveraged buyouts (LBOs) and special situations. 

We are one of the largest and most active private capital markets teams on Wall Street with over 150  dedicated finance professionals across 12 offices in 6 countries.  For the twelve months ending March 31, 2023, we raised approximately $15 billion of solution-oriented capital and advised on an additional $7 billion across approximately 150 transactions for corporate and private equity clients worldwide. Given our considerable volume of financing transactions, we believe that we have an unparalleled ability to fully understand and adapt to the ever-changing public and private capital markets to achieve optimal outcomes and provide certainty for our clients during times of market volatility. 

We approach each transaction with the goal of creating a capital structure that enables our clients to achieve their strategic objectives with the best terms available in the market. Houlihan Lokey has acted as a placement agent, an underwriter, or a strategic advisor for a wide variety of financings, including private issuances of leveraged loans, mezzanine debt, and minority stake growth equity financings as well as public offerings of common stock, equity-linked securities, and high-yield bonds. In a capital markets environment that is rapidly changing and increasingly complex, it is critical to have a trusted investment bank with the experience and proven ability to deliver a tailored financing solution—not just capital.

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 2023, we were ranked the No. 1 M&A advisor for all U.S. transactions.

Job Description

Houlihan Lokey’s Equity Private Placement Team within the Capital Markets Group originates, structures, and executes equity financings on behalf of the firm’s corporate and private equity clients.

Our team works on transactions that provide exposure to various financing products, techniques, and applications, such as preferred equity, structured equity, and equity / equity-linked securities for a variety of situations, including growth capital, secondary financings, acquisition financing, refinancings, and other special situations.

Members of the team gain incredible exposure to their counterparts at private equity firms, corporations