Investment Banking Associate | Healthcare Services

Business Unit:

Corporate Finance

Industry:

Healthcare

Overview

Houlihan Lokey, Inc. (NYSE:HLI) is a leading global investment bank recognized for delivering independent strategic and financial advice to corporations, financial sponsors, and governments. With uniquely deep industry expertise, broad international reach, and a partnership approach rooted in trust, the firm provides innovative, integrated solutions across mergers and acquisitions, capital solutions, financial restructuring, and financial and valuation advisory. Our unmatched transaction volumes provide differentiated, data-driven perspectives that help our clients achieve their most critical goals. To learn more about Houlihan Lokey, please visit HL.com.

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 2025, LSEG ranked our firm the No. 1 investment bank for all global M&A transactions.

Job Description

Houlihan Lokey's Healthcare Investment Banking team is one of the industry's leading middle-market M&A advisors, providing strategic advisory services across Healthcare Services, HCIT, MedTech, Pharma Services, Life Sciences, and related sectors. Associates work on high-impact transactions alongside senior bankers in lean deal teams, gaining meaningful client exposure, leadership responsibility, and hands-on execution experience across a high volume of live M&A engagements.

Associates are afforded meaningful responsibility and are generally members of lean deal teams comprising a Managing Director, Vice President, Associate, and Analyst.

As an Associate, you will be expected to:

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

• Prepare marketing materials, confidential information presentations, management presentations, and other presentations as needed

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

• Perform valuation and ad hoc financial analyses

• Assist in the marketing and execution of existing engagements

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

• Communicate effectively with all members of the team, including the supervision and mentoring of junior staff members

Basic Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of accounting and finance

• An undergraduate degree, including an exemplary academic record, from an accredited institution

• Strong analytical/technical and qualitative abilities

• 3-4 years of investment banking experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Strong public speaking and presentation skills

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple project deliverables simultaneously

• Extensive operational, financial modeling, and valuation experience 

• Hands-on M&A experience

Compensation and Benefits

Houlihan Lokey is committed to providing its employees with an exciting career opportunity and competitive total compensation package, which may include other components such as discretionary incentive compensation. The firm’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the possible salary range for this role at the time of posting is:

$175,000 - $200,000

Actual salary at the time of hire may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate’s relevant qualifications, skills, and experience and the location where this position may be filled.

Houlihan Lokey provides a competitive benefits package. Our current benefits offerings can be found here:

2026 Benefits

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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