Houlihan Lokey is a public investment bank (NYSE:HLI) with 1,001–5,000 employees across 16 countries, anchored in Los Angeles. The tech stack reveals a finance-operations infrastructure: Salesforce for client relationship management, Pitchbook for deal research, Snowflake + SQL Server for data warehousing, and Workday for HR systems—matched to a finance-heavy hiring distribution (223 finance roles vs. 12 engineering). Active projects center on workflow automation, Workday platform upgrades, and a unified deal-intelligence system, while pain points cluster around data transparency, regulatory reporting, and illiquid asset valuation.
Notable leadership hires: ServiceNow Lead, IT Director
Houlihan Lokey advises corporations, financial sponsors, and governments on mergers and acquisitions, capital solutions, financial restructuring, and valuation. The firm operates across four primary service lines: mergers and acquisitions (M&A), capital solutions (equity and debt markets), financial restructuring (including debtor-side advisory), and financial and valuation advisory (including illiquid securities). With offices in 16 countries, the firm supports both transaction execution and ongoing strategic account management for institutional clients. Engineering and data headcount remain small relative to finance and operations, indicating technology is primarily an internal support function rather than a revenue-facing product line.
Core stack includes Salesforce (CRM), Pitchbook (deal research), Snowflake + SQL Server (data warehousing), Workday (HR), Fivetran (data integration), Apache Airflow (orchestration), and Tableau (analytics). Python, Java, and C++ support internal development.
Houlihan Lokey employs between 1,001 and 5,000 people globally. The company is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker HLI.
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