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Financial Services

Top Global Financial Services M&A Advisor

Financial Services

2025 M&A Advisory Rankings—Global Financial Services Transactions Under $5 Billion

Advisor Deals
Houlihan Lokey 66
Goldman Sachs 59
Morgan Stanley 42
UBS 34
Rothschild 33
Source: LSEG.
Excludes accounting firms and business brokers.

Houlihan Lokey’s Financial Services Group has earned a reputation for providing superior service and achieving outstanding results in M&A advisory, capital-raising, restructuring, and financial and valuation advisory services.

The global Houlihan Lokey Financial Services team has more than 80 dedicated financial services professionals with senior officers located in five offices around the world, including Atlanta, Chicago, Miami, New York, and Tokyo.

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Our comprehensive understanding of the industry’s financial, regulatory, and competitive dynamics helps us analyze a full range of strategic options.

This includes mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, capital raising, and asset sale transactions. As a leading M&A advisor, we cover virtually every segment of the industry, including the following sectors.

Asset and Wealth Management
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  • Alternative Asset Managers
  • Asset Allocators and Fund of Funds
  • BDCs, REITs, and Permanent Capital Vehicles
  • GP Stakes
  • Traditional Asset Managers
  • Wealth Managers, IFAs, and RIAs
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Banking and Depositories
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  • Assisted Sales and Loss-Share Transaction
  • Capital Relief Trades (CRTs)
  • Line of Business and Portfolio Divestitures
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
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Broker-Dealers and Capital Markets
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  • Electronic Execution and Market-Making
  • Full-Service Investment Banks
  • Institutional Research, Sales, and Trading Brokerages
  • M&A, Fund Placement, and Advisory Firms
  • Retail Brokerages
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Insurance
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  • Employee Benefits Distribution
  • Insurance Distribution
  • Insurance Services
  • Life and Health
  • Life Settlements
  • Property and Casualty
  • Reinsurance
  • Title
  • Warranty
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Specialty Finance and Nonbank Lenders
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  • Alternative/Marketplace Lending
  • Challenger Banks
  • Commercial Finance
  • Consumer Finance
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Selected Transactions

Procyon Partners has received a strategic minority investment from Constellation Wealth Capital

Sellside Advisor

NSM Insurance Group, a portfolio company of Carlyle, has sold its U.S. commercial insurance division to New Mountain Capital

Sellside Advisor

AlphaMark Advisors has been acquired by EP Wealth Advisors

Sellside Advisor

West Coast Financial has been acquired by Cerity Partners

Sellside Advisor

D. Scott Neal, Inc. has been acquired by Mercer Global Advisors, Inc.

Sellside Advisor

Peninsula Wealth has been acquired by EP Wealth Advisors

Sellside Advisor

Vishria Bird Financial Group has been acquired by Mercer Advisors

Sellside Advisor

Risk Transfer Partners has been acquired by CRC Group, a portfolio company of Stone Point Capital and CD&R

Sellside Advisor

Sugarloaf Wealth Management, LLC has been acquired by Prime Capital Financial

Sellside Advisor

Healthcare Funding Partners

Senior Secured Credit Facility

Refinancing and Growth Capital

$180,000,000

Exclusive Placement Agent

Tiptree, Inc.

Secured Credit Facility

General Corporate Purposes

$75,000,000

Exclusive Placement Agent

Brycer has received strategic investment from TA Associates

Sellside Advisor

Bishop Street Underwriters, a portfolio company of RedBird Capital Partners, has acquired Landmark Underwriting

Buyside Advisor

Winged Keep Group has received strategic investment from GTCR

Sellside Advisor

Northwest Investment Counselors has been acquired by Wealth Enhancement

Sellside Advisor
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    Selected Highlights

    Media Mentions ’Mortgage M&A Poised to Accelerate in 2026’
    Media Mentions ’2026 M&A Outlook Looking Up for Equipment Finance’
    Press Releases Houlihan Lokey Grows Financial Services Group With Senior Hire
    Insights The Takeaway: A Q&A With James Anderson on the Insurance and Wealth Management Sectors
    Media Mentions ‘M&A Activity in the RIA Industry Surging to New Heights’
    Press Releases Houlihan Lokey to Acquire Waller Helms Advisors
    Insights U.S. Mortgage and Mortgage REIT Sector Updates
    Insights MidCapMonitor
    Insights Insurance Distribution Market Updates
    Insights Engineering, Industrial, and Infrastructure Services Market Updates
    Insights Human Capital Management Market Updates
    Insights Automotive Aftermarket—Latest Update
    Insights The Takeaway: A Q&A With Juan Guzman on the Title Insurance Sector
    Media Mentions ‘2023 Bank Sector Dislocation and the Impact on the Financial Services Sector’ Published in AIRA Journal
    Insights Beauty and Personal Care: Change is Constant
    Media Mentions Sam Scanlan Speaks With the Los Angeles Business Journal on Adversities in the Cannabis Industry
    Press Releases Houlihan Lokey Launches Sustainability Advisory Services Practice and Announces Senior Hire
    Media Mentions A ‘$50 Billion Spending Spree in the Gulf’: Andy Cairns Speaks With Bloomberg on the Pace and Drivers of Middle East Investment
    Insights The SEC Focuses on Advisor-Led Secondary Transactions in New Private Fund Reforms
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