Houlihan Lokey is pleased to announce that Intelius has been acquired by H.I.G. Capital. The transaction closed on June 30, 2015.

Headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., Intelius is a leading provider of on-demand information about individuals and predictive analytics that can help identify connections to other people, places, and things. The privately held company has been in business since 2003, and services 300 million monthly requests for access to its databases. Intelius offers cloud-based solutions through desktop and mobile applications with reports and services that include basic people search results, detailed background reports, and comprehensive identity theft protection service. Intelius has a robust and proprietary technology platform that gathers billions of public records from a large network of publicly and commercially available sources and assigns such records to more than 250 million unique profiles in the United States.

H.I.G. is a leading global private equity and alternative assets investment firm with more than $18 billion of equity capital under management. Based in Miami, with offices in New York, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, and Atlanta, as well as international affiliate offices in London, Hamburg, Madrid, Milan, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro, H.I.G. specializes in providing both debt and equity capital to small and mid-sized companies, utilizing a flexible and operationally focused/value-added approach. Since its founding in 1993, H.I.G. has invested in and managed more than 200 companies worldwide. The firm's current portfolio includes more than 100 companies with combined sales in excess of $30 billion.

Houlihan Lokey served as the exclusive financial advisor to Intelius, and assisted in structuring and negotiating the transaction. This marks the sixth M&A transaction completed by Houlihan Lokey’s Business Services Group in the last six months and further demonstrates our ability to drive value for our clients.

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