Four Mizuho Executives Leave for Houlihan After Greenhill Deal

Mizuho Financial Group Inc. has lost at least four managing directors to Houlihan Lokey Inc.’s private fund group, according to people familiar with the matter.

The bankers formerly worked at Greenhill & Co., which Mizuho bought last year to beef up its investing-banking business in the US. The departures include Thomas Donovan, who led the private capital advisory business at Greenhill in Chicago and joined Houlihan last month, said the people, who declined to be identified citing confidential information.

Los Angeles-based Houlihan has been building out its private funds group in recent years to help general partners raise funds, ...