Financial Analyst | General Partner Advisory | New York
About The Position
Houlihan Lokey's Capital Solutions Group comprises more than 170 professionals globally and offers clients a broad range of tailored financing alternatives and strategic financial advice. Our team has deep senior-level relationships across the capital markets and a long track record of raising capital across varying market conditions. With deep expertise in both private and public markets, we are committed to delivering innovative, value-enhancing solutions that support long-term success for our clients. The General Partner Advisory ("GPA") team operates as a focused, senior-led unit within one of the world's most powerful advisory platforms. We advise the founders and managing partners of leading private equity, private credit, real estate, and infrastructure firms on the most important firm-level decisions they will make: who will own a piece of their business, on what terms, and when. These are not public processes you can read about on MergerMarket. They are private conversations, among the most sensitive a firm's leadership will ever have. Our clients do not advertise that they are considering a stake sale. They call us. We run competitive sell-side processes on their behalf, negotiating outcomes that reflect the full strategic and financial value of what our clients have built. GPA sits at the intersection of Houlihan Lokey's M&A platform (#1 globally for ten consecutive years) and its Capital Solutions platform, one of the largest private capital advisory practices in financial services. While the platform is large, GPA is a lean team offering direct interaction with our global leaders on every deal. We invest our time in high-probability strategic discussions with potential clients and live mandates, not idea books or think pieces. As alternative asset managers grow, institutionalize, and plan for generational succession, the sale of minority stakes in their management companies has become one of the most strategic decisions a GP will make. The global alternative asset management industry is on track to surpass $20 trillion in AUM. Demand for what we do has never been stronger, and it is not reliant on the traditional M&A cycle.
Requirements
- Graduating with a bachelor's or master's degree between December 2025 and June 2026
- Intellectual curiosity about private markets, alternative asset management, and the evolving landscape of GP economics
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; our work product goes to the CEOs and CFOs of leading private capital firms
- A strong work ethic and the drive to take ownership of your work product
Nice To Haves
- Proficiency in financial modeling (Excel) and a solid foundation in valuation methodologies (DCF, comparable companies, precedent transactions)
- Familiarity with or strong interest in the private capital ecosystem: private equity fund structures, management company economics, carried interest, and GP/LP dynamics
Responsibilities
- Driving sell-side M&A processes end-to-end, from initial mandate through CIM drafting, model creation, buyer diligence, and closing
- Building and owning the financial models, valuations, and supplementary analyses that underpin our client recommendations
- Helping the managing partners of top-tier private capital platforms articulate what makes their firms must-own businesses, through CIMs, management presentations, and deal documents that go directly to the most sophisticated institutional GP stake buyers in the world
Benefits
- competitive total compensation package, which may include other components such as discretionary incentive compensation
- competitive benefits package
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
