Dec 08, 2020 / 08:00PM GMT
Richard Nigel Ramsden - Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division - MD
Okay. So up next, well, I'm delighted to welcome Scott Beiser, who is Houlihan Lokey's Chief Executive Officer and a member of the firm's Board of Directors. He served as CEO for 17 years, and I think he's worked at Houlihan Lokey, on at least my math, for 30 years. And over that time period, Houlihan Lokey has been an extraordinarily successful company. So Scott, thank you very much for joining us. I really do appreciate your time.
Questions and Answers:
Richard Nigel Ramsden - Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division - MDLook, I thought I would just start with a discussion around both the M&A and the restructuring environment, just to kind of level set where your expectations have got to. And I appreciate there's a lot of different moving pieces here but let's start with M&A. And I guess a couple of questions. The first is, look, how would you characterize the environment today relative to when you last spoke, which I guess, was a few months ago, what have you seen