2025 Summer Financial Analyst - Corporate Finance (Debt Advisory)
- Employer
- Houlihan Lokey
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- Nov 2, 2024
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- Job Function
- Banking
- Industry Sector
- Finance - General
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Education
- Bachelors
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Business Unit:
Corporate Finance
Industry:
CM - Capital Markets Group
Overview
Houlihan Lokey, Inc. (NYSE:HLI) is a global investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, financial restructuring, and financial and valuation advisory. Houlihan Lokey serves corporations, institutions, and governments worldwide with offices in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and the AsiaPacific region. Independent advice and intellectual rigor are hallmarks of the firm's commitment to client success across its advisory services. The firm is the No. 1 investment bank for all global M&A transactions, the No. 1 M&A advisor for the past nine consecutive years in the U.S., the No. 1 global restructuring advisor for the past ten 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 LSEG (formerly Refinitiv).
Corporate Finance
The Houlihan Lokey Corporate Finance business works with a wide spectrum of companies, from mid-market privately owned enterprises to large multinational organizations. With a growing EMEA platform with nearly 400 Corporate Finance bankers in offices across the UK, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France, Sweden, Spain, Israel, the Netherlands, and Dubai, we have the breadth and targeted expertise to provide exceptional client service.
Capital Markets Advisory
Our Capital Markets Group operates within Corporate Finance and provides advice and financing placement skills to private equity, corporate clients and family-owned businesses. The team is now c. 40 people across debt and equity and located in London, Frankfurt, Paris, Milan and Dubai. As trusted advisors, we have the proven ability to engineer and execute financing solutions that are essential for growth and success and the preservation of value. The team has decades of combined experience and a track record in Europe of closing between 50 and 100 financing transactions a year. We advise on and arrange financings with a broad spectrum ranging from €20m to €2bn.
Our team is an advisory only practice hence provides clients with pragmatic and independent solutions without typical balance sheet related conflicts of interest. This dedicated team of financial professionals handles a wide range of engagements encompassing leveraged buyouts, refinancings, recapitalizations, growth and strategic investment capital, loan amendments, and liability management.
Scope
As a Summer Financial Analyst, you will help provide support across transactions, gaining exposure to various debt products and financing structures, such as bank debt/senior loans, second-lien debt, unitranche debt, mezzanine debt and equity. This may be applied across a variety of situations, including growth capital, acquisition financing, refinancings and repricings, dividend recapitalizations, and special situations. You will work with talented, dedicated professionals who will give you broad exposure to the many different issues and concerns affecting companies and investors today.
You will research and analyse financial statements using financial models, general economic conditions, industry-specific developments, and investment attributes of publicly traded and private companies. You will also assist in preparing client ready presentations and process materials as well as co-ordinating client and lender calls, gaining live deal insights into what investment banking and the world of financing entails.
Houlihan Lokey provides a collegial, entrepreneurial work environment. We reward our Summer Financial Analysts with substantial responsibilities, interaction with senior-level professionals, and live engagements.
Requirements/Qualifications
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.
Corporate Finance
Industry:
CM - Capital Markets Group
Overview
Houlihan Lokey, Inc. (NYSE:HLI) is a global investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, financial restructuring, and financial and valuation advisory. Houlihan Lokey serves corporations, institutions, and governments worldwide with offices in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and the AsiaPacific region. Independent advice and intellectual rigor are hallmarks of the firm's commitment to client success across its advisory services. The firm is the No. 1 investment bank for all global M&A transactions, the No. 1 M&A advisor for the past nine consecutive years in the U.S., the No. 1 global restructuring advisor for the past ten 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 LSEG (formerly Refinitiv).
Corporate Finance
The Houlihan Lokey Corporate Finance business works with a wide spectrum of companies, from mid-market privately owned enterprises to large multinational organizations. With a growing EMEA platform with nearly 400 Corporate Finance bankers in offices across the UK, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France, Sweden, Spain, Israel, the Netherlands, and Dubai, we have the breadth and targeted expertise to provide exceptional client service.
Capital Markets Advisory
Our Capital Markets Group operates within Corporate Finance and provides advice and financing placement skills to private equity, corporate clients and family-owned businesses. The team is now c. 40 people across debt and equity and located in London, Frankfurt, Paris, Milan and Dubai. As trusted advisors, we have the proven ability to engineer and execute financing solutions that are essential for growth and success and the preservation of value. The team has decades of combined experience and a track record in Europe of closing between 50 and 100 financing transactions a year. We advise on and arrange financings with a broad spectrum ranging from €20m to €2bn.
Our team is an advisory only practice hence provides clients with pragmatic and independent solutions without typical balance sheet related conflicts of interest. This dedicated team of financial professionals handles a wide range of engagements encompassing leveraged buyouts, refinancings, recapitalizations, growth and strategic investment capital, loan amendments, and liability management.
Scope
As a Summer Financial Analyst, you will help provide support across transactions, gaining exposure to various debt products and financing structures, such as bank debt/senior loans, second-lien debt, unitranche debt, mezzanine debt and equity. This may be applied across a variety of situations, including growth capital, acquisition financing, refinancings and repricings, dividend recapitalizations, and special situations. You will work with talented, dedicated professionals who will give you broad exposure to the many different issues and concerns affecting companies and investors today.
You will research and analyse financial statements using financial models, general economic conditions, industry-specific developments, and investment attributes of publicly traded and private companies. You will also assist in preparing client ready presentations and process materials as well as co-ordinating client and lender calls, gaining live deal insights into what investment banking and the world of financing entails.
Houlihan Lokey provides a collegial, entrepreneurial work environment. We reward our Summer Financial Analysts with substantial responsibilities, interaction with senior-level professionals, and live engagements.
Requirements/Qualifications
- Must be in your penultimate year of study at a highly regarded university - completing your final university assessments in Spring or Summer 2026
- Some knowledge/understanding of the financial services industry
- A high-level understanding of financial modelling (e.g. LBO models)
- Strong financial and computer skills
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills with a focus on accuracy and attention to detail
- Most importantly, we seek to attract dedicated, team-oriented candidates with a deep desire to win, a strong work ethic, and a willingness to work hard to achieve the highest standards of performance
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.
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