Sam Handler

Sam Handler

Director

Mr. Handler is a Director in Houlihan Lokey’s Business Services Group and focuses on the training and education space. He is based in the firm’s Los Angeles office.

Mr. Handler has worked on numerous M&A transactions while at Houlihan Lokey. Some of his recent deals include Sandler’s strategic investment from Blue Marlin; Vestar Capital Partners’ investment in 360training; Colibri’s acquisition of Becker Professional Education and OnCourse Learning from Adtalem (NYSE:ATGE); Ridgemont’s minority investment in Teachers of Tomorrow; the sale of Skillsoft to Churchill Capital Corp II; the sale of Corporate Visions to the Riverside Company; the sale of EducationDynamics to Renovus; Tailwind Capital’s investment in ISSA; the restructuring of WorldStrides; the sale of itslearning, an EQT portfolio company, to Sanoma; the sale of VStar Entertainment to Cirque du Soleil, a portfolio company of TPG Capital; the sale of Pink Jeep Tours to Herschend Enterprises; and the sale of WordStream to Gannett. 

Mr. Handler joined Houlihan Lokey in 2017. Previously, he worked in the Financial Sponsors Group at Deutsche Bank, where he focused on private equity transactions, including Apollo's acquisitions of Rackspace and Lumileds and Thomas H. Lee Partner's acquisition of Give & Go Prepared Foods Inc.

Mr. Handler holds a B.A. in Government from Colby College and an MBA from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.

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