Houlihan Lokey Advises MCR

Houlihan Lokey is pleased to announce that MCR, LLC, has been acquired by Arlington Capital Partners. The transaction details were not disclosed.

Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, MCR is a highly innovative provider of integrated program management, specialized engineering, and DevOps + Agile solutions to mission-critical U.S. defense and intelligence agencies, NATO, and European ministries. The company possesses deep domain expertise in joint/all-domain C4ISR, space superiority, global command and control, and agile software factories. The company delivers its solutions and services through its technology-transformed platform, CommandEdge, providing mission-enabling capabilities and support focused on ensuring defense superiority in land, sea, air, and space domains.

Arlington Capital Partners is a Washington, D.C.–based private equity firm that is currently investing out of Arlington Capital Partners V, LP, a $1.7 billion fund. The firm has managed approximately $4.0 billion of committed capital via five investment funds. Arlington is focused on middle-market investment opportunities in growth industries, including aerospace and defense, government services and technology, healthcare, and business services and software.

This transaction underscores the strong resilience of the defense and government market and demonstrates the strong market for companies exhibiting differentiated capabilities in highly prioritized domains, solutions-oriented deliverables, and strategic customers and geographies.

Houlihan Lokey served as the exclusive financial advisor and assisted in marketing, structuring, and negotiating the transaction on behalf of MCR.

Houlihan Lokey’s Aerospace, Defense & Government (ADG) practice within the global Industrials Group is a leading M&A advisor to aerospace, defense, and government services companies. Since 2020, the team has closed more than 35 transactions worth nearly $8 billion in enterprise value. With a staff of approximately 30 investment bankers in Washington, D.C., London, and Los Angeles, Houlihan Lokey’s ADG practice is among the largest dedicated industry banking groups worldwide. In 2020, the Industrials Group was once again ranked as the No. 1 M&A advisor for all U.S. industrial transactions, according to Refinitiv.