Houlihan Lokey Advises uAvionix

Houlihan Lokey is pleased to announce that uAvionix Corp. has been acquired by affiliates of DC Capital Partners LLC. The transaction closed on March 9, 2022.

Founded in 2015, uAvionix provides highly differentiated, small form factor communications, navigation, and surveillance avionics for unmanned and manned aircraft. The company was founded with the mission of creating airspace safety solutions that address airspace management and the integration of unmanned aircraft into the national airspace. Leveraging its core technology and avionics expertise, uAvionix is at the forefront of innovation and has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to miniaturize and certify low size, weight, and power avionics solutions across its growing portfolio of automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) transponders, transceivers, and receivers, command and control solutions, multi-function panel displays, autopilots, and GPS products. Throughout its history, the company’s products have earned the trust of pilots, unmanned systems operators, and aviation authorities worldwide by enabling airspace users the ability to reliably communicate, navigate, and separate in civil and military airspace.

DC Capital Partners is a private equity investment firm headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, focused on making control equity investments in middle-market companies that provide differentiated and innovative services and solutions to the defense, government, and engineering markets. The firm has extensive sector experience, having completed over 30 acquisitions in the past eight years. uAvionix is the second investment by DC Capital Partners in the past 12 months under its newly launched Fund III.

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