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Earn authority with precise facts rather than superlatives.\"\n    evidence_status: observed\n  - trait: \"Client-centered\"\n    guidance: \"Frame capabilities around the client's decision, complexity, or desired outcome.\"\n    evidence_status: brand_declared\n  - trait: \"Analytical\"\n    guidance: \"Use exact categories, periods, transaction roles, and qualifications. Distinguish fact from interpretation.\"\n    evidence_status: observed\n  - trait: \"Relationship-driven\"\n    guidance: \"Acknowledge collaboration, senior relationships, and tailored advice without becoming sentimental.\"\n    evidence_status: brand_declared\n  - trait: \"Measured\"\n    guidance: \"Prefer controlled confidence. Avoid hype, swagger, alarmism, and absolute outcome promises.\"\n    evidence_status: inferred\n```\n\n## Register and rhythm\n\n- Use formal, contemporary business English.\n- Begin with a declarative headline or a clear statement of the client need.\n- Follow with one disciplined paragraph that connects expertise to the situation.\n- Use concrete nouns: boards, sponsors, creditors, capital providers, transactions, valuations, industries.\n- Keep sentences moderately paced. Use parallel structure for service lists and proof points.\n- Prefer active voice, but preserve conventional transaction language when exact roles matter.\n- Use restrained modifiers. One defensible adjective is stronger than a stack of them.\n- On technical subjects, define the issue plainly before using specialist terminology.\n\n## Preferred vocabulary\n\n```yaml\nprefer:\n  - \"independent advice\"\n  - \"client outcomes\"\n  - \"specialized expertise\"\n  - \"rigorous analysis\"\n  - \"sector knowledge\"\n  - \"relationship-driven\"\n  - \"collaborative\"\n  - \"tailored\"\n  - \"complex situations\"\n  - \"strategic and financial advice\"\n  - \"capital providers\"\n  - \"boards and special committees\"\n  - \"financial sponsors\"\n  - \"transaction experience\"\navoid:\n  - \"disruptive\"\n  - \"game-changing\"\n  - \"frictionless\"\n  - \"best-in-class\"\n  - \"one-stop shop\"\n  - \"rock-star bankers\"\n  - \"guaranteed results\"\n  - '\"unmatched\" unless reproduced with a narrow, sourced qualification'\n  - '\"No. 1\" without year, category, source, and methodology'\n```\n\n## Writing patterns\n\n### Corporate capability\n\n**Use:** \"Houlihan Lokey advises boards and management teams on complex strategic and financial decisions, drawing on sector knowledge, transaction experience, and relationships across the capital markets.\"\n\n**Avoid:** \"Houlihan Lokey is the ultimate one-stop shop for any deal, anywhere.\"\n\n### Ranking claim\n\n**Use:** \"LSEG ranked Houlihan Lokey No. 1 by number of announced or completed global M&A transactions in 2025, excluding accounting firms and brokers.\"\n\n**Avoid:** \"Houlihan Lokey is the world's best M&A bank.\"\n\n### Transaction description\n\n**Use:** \"Houlihan Lokey served as exclusive financial advisor to [client] in connection with [publicly announced transaction].\"\n\n**Avoid:** \"Houlihan Lokey made the deal happen\" or language that assigns the firm sole credit for a client outcome.\n\n### Recruiting\n\n**Use:** \"Work with experienced colleagues on consequential assignments in a collaborative, entrepreneurial environment.\"\n\n**Avoid:** \"Join an elite family of dealmakers who never stop winning.\"\n\n## Context shifts\n\n```yaml\ncontext_shifts:\n  client_advisory:\n    tone: \"calm, precise, discreet\"\n    emphasis: \"the client's decision, alternatives, analysis, and process\"\n  transaction_announcement:\n    tone: \"factual, concise, role-exact\"\n    emphasis: \"client, counterparties, status, disclosed value, and Houlihan Lokey's exact role\"\n  investor_relations:\n    tone: \"plain, quantitative, period-specific\"\n    emphasis: \"GAAP results first; clearly label adjusted measures and forward-looking statements\"\n  recruiting:\n    tone: \"ambitious, developmental, candid\"\n    emphasis: \"real responsibility, collaboration, learning, and professional growth\"\n  community_and_sustainability:\n    tone: \"specific, human, accountable\"\n    emphasis: \"programs, participation, governance, and measured commitments\"\n```\n\n## Source observations\n\n- https://hl.com/about-us/\n- https://hl.com/services/\n- https://hl.com/industries\n- https://hl.com/careers/\n- https://hl.com/about-us/social-commitment/\n",
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