Investment Banking Associate | Healthcare
At a glance
Junior Investment & Corporate Development role at Lateral. New York · full-time · $175,000–$200,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Run due diligence and move healthcare M&A deals through execution alongside senior bankers
- Build marketing and management presentations, confidential information decks and other materials for engagements
- Explain historical and forecast financial results, and complete valuations and other financial analyses
- Support client engagement marketing, stay in contact with clients and advisors, and mentor junior colleagues
What you bring
- You have three to four years of investment banking experience
- You hold an undergraduate degree from an accredited institution and have a strong academic record
- You bring advanced accounting and finance knowledge, with strong analytical and technical ability
Who this fits
This role suits an investment banking associate ready to take hands-on responsibility on live M&A work and have direct client contact. You’ll work in lean deal teams and supervise and mentor junior staff.
From the employer
Business Unit:
Corporate FinanceIndustry:
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:
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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