Business Unit:

Corporate Finance

Industry:

HC - Healthcare

Houlihan Lokey (NYSE:HLI) is a global investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, financial restructuring, and valuation. 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 M&A advisor for the past six consecutive years in the U.S., the No. 1 global restructuring advisor for the past seven consecutive years, and the No. 1 global M&A fairness opinion advisor over the past 20 years, all based on number of transactions and according to data provided by Refinitiv.

Corporate Finance

The Houlihan Lokey Corporate Finance business has extensive expertise in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, activist shareholder and takeover defense, and other related advisory services for a broad range of clients. In addition, we have the proven ability to engineer and execute financing solutions that are essential for growth and success and offer access to financing in the public and alternative capital markets through the issuance of debt, equity, or hybrid securities.

Houlihan Lokey is the No. 1 most active global M&A advisor, the No. 1 most active advisor to private equity globally, the most active technology advisor in the world as well as a global leader in industrials, business services, consumer, food and retail, healthcare and financial services M&A (according to data provided by Mergermarket and Pitchbook).

As trusted advisors, our industry-specific investment banking groups provide us with a deep understanding of our client’s business and positioning before we are even engaged in a transaction. Combined with this market penetration is our international presence throughout Europe, the United States, and the Asia-Pacific region.

Healthcare

Houlihan Lokey’s Healthcare Group has earned a reputation for providing superior service and achieving outstanding results in M&A advisory, capital raising, restructuring, and valuation. We provide in-depth knowledge, proven transaction experience, and an exceptional level of service to our clients. Our team has extensive relationships with public and private strategic and financial sponsors, and the clients we serve span a broad range of sectors.

Responsibilities

As an Associate, you will:

• Prepare, analyze and help explain historical and projected financial information

• Create financial models

• Coordinate and perform business due diligence and execute M&A transactions

• Prepare confidential information memoranda, management presentations, marketing pitches and other presentations

• Conduct research on sectors, companies and potential buyers

• Value companies and businesses

• Build relationships and maintain direct contact with clients and prospective clients and professional advisors

• Supervise and train junior staff members

• Assist in planning of engagements

The environment at Houlihan Lokey is collegial and entrepreneurial and, as such, rewards staff with substantial responsibility and interaction with senior-level professionals and clients.

Requirements / Qualifications

The environment at Houlihan Lokey is results-driven, as such, rewards top performers with substantial responsibility and interaction with senior-level professionals and clients.

The ideal candidate thinks strategically, is motivated, detail oriented, creative, outgoing, and possesses excellent quantitative skills. If you have the following qualifications & experience, we’d love to hear from you:

• You will have a strong academic track record and achieved a 2:1 or equivalent degree

• 3-5 years of full-time investment banking experience in Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)

• Experience/knowledge in the Healthcare sector will be favourably regarded

• Demonstrable experience in executing sell-side transactions

• Advanced Financial modelling and analytical abilities; Strong LBO and DCF modelling skills

• Strong analytical abilities and knowledge of accounting and applied financial theory

• Excellent understanding of financial statements analysis with the ability to work through key assumptions, implicit caveats, and limitations

• An excellent understanding of financial valuation theory, methodologies, and applications

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Demonstrated ability to work cooperatively with all levels of staff in a rapidly changing, demanding, but ultimately rewarding environment

• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment, manage multiple projects and hit deadlines in a highly organised manner

• An independent, solutions-focused mind-set

• An exceptional work ethic

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.