Houlihan Lokey, Inc. (HLI) Presents at Goldman Sachs 2025 U.S. Financial Services Conference Transcript
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Financial Services Conference December 9, 2025 1:40 PM EST Company Participants Scott Joseph Adelson - CEO & DirectorAnthony Martino Presentation Unknown Analyst Okay. Let's get started here. So up next, we are pleased to welcome Scott Adelson, who is Houlihan Lokey's CEO and a member of the firm's Board of Directors. Scott has been at Houlihan for over 35 years and previously served as the Co-President of Houlihan Lokey and Global Head of Corporate Finance, and he actually built Corporate Finance from basically ground up. Pretty good. Joining him is Anthony Martino, Global Co-Head of Capital Solutions at Houlihan Lokey, where he's focused on raising debt and equity capital, Anthony has been at Houlihan since 2013, previous to which, he ran alternative capital markets, both at Sagent Advisors and UBS. Thank you both for joining us.
Scott Joseph AdelsonCEO & Director And also build them from scratch, so. Question-and-Answer Session Unknown Analyst There you go. Okay, Scott. So maybe we'll just start with you. You've been in the role for about 1.5 years now as CEO, what are the key lessons thus far? And maybe you could just walk us through the key strategic priorities for you for the next, let's say, 3 to 5 years?
Scott Joseph AdelsonCEO & Director Yes, happy to do that. I mean it had not a lot different, as we've talked about before. We've had a group of us who have been running the firm for decades. And so we just kind of changed seats at the table. No different in terms of my roles and responsibilities to get to spend more time with you. That's probably the highlight. And other than that, it's very much the same. We still spend time with clients around