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| Item 5.02 | Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. |
On September 30, 2025, our Board of Directors (“Board”) approved the (i) increase of the size of the board from ten to eleven and (ii) appointed R. Scott Mund as an independent Class II director to our Board, in each case, effective as of October 1, 2025. Mr. Mund was elected to serve until our 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until his successor is duly elected and qualifies. Mr. Mund was appointed as a member of the Company’s Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
Mr. Mund brings to our Board nearly four decades of experience advising public and private multinational companies across a wide range of industries on M&A, cross-border taxation, corporate governance and business transformation. Mr. Mund is a partner at Deloitte LLP, which he joined in 2002. He served two terms on Deloitte’s U.S. Board of Directors, sitting on the Finance/Audit, Global, Strategic Investment, and Partner Earnings & Benefits (Talent) committees and partnering with executive leadership on long-term planning, financial management, and investment strategy. Mr. Mund began his career at Arthur Andersen where he spent over 15 years with increasing responsibility culminating in his promotion to partner. Mr. Mund earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and is a certified public accountant.
There are no arrangements or understandings between Mr. Mund and any other person pursuant to which Mr. Mund was selected as our director. There are no transactions in which Mr. Mund has a material interest requiring disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.
Mr. Mund will receive the standard compensation received by non-employee directors under the Company’s Director Compensation Program (the “Compensation Program”). As part of the Compensation Program, effective as of his commencement of service on the Board, the Board granted Mr. Mund an award of restricted shares of class A common stock under the Company’s Amended and Restated 2016 Incentive Award Plan. The award has a value equal to $100,000, and will vest in substantially equal installments on the first, second and third anniversaries of the grant date, subject to his continuing service through the applicable vesting date.
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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| Date: October 6, 2025 | Houlihan Lokey, Inc. | |||||
| By: | /s/ Christopher M. Crain | |||||
| Name: | Christopher M. Crain | |||||
| Position: | General Counsel and Secretary | |||||