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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-231919"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HLI"
cik: "0001302215"
company_name: "HOULIHAN LOKEY, INC."
filed_at: "2025-10-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T04:33:08.087119+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Houlihan Lokey appoints R. Scott Mund as independent director; board expands to 11

## Summary
- Board increased from 10 to 11 members; R. Scott Mund appointed as independent Class II director effective Oct 1, 2025.
- Mund is a partner at Deloitte LLP with ~40 years of experience in M&A, cross-border tax, governance, and business transformation.
- Mund will receive standard non-employee director compensation plus a $100K restricted stock award vesting over three years.
- He will serve until the 2026 Annual Meeting and sits on the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-231919
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HLI
- cik: 0001302215
- company_name: HOULIHAN LOKEY, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-10-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1302215/000119312525231919/0001193125-25-231919-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1302215/000119312525231919/d36866d8k.htm

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