Shearman & Sterling is advising Symphony Technology Group on First Advantage Corporation’s acquisition of the employment and resident screening business of LexisNexis Risk Solutions Inc., a division of Reed Elsevier Group plc. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Symphony Technology Group is a strategic private equity firm with the mission of investing in and building great software and services companies.

First Advantage, a Symphony Technology Group portfolio company, is a leading global provider of comprehensive talent acquisition solutions.

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is a leader in providing essential information that helps customers across all industries and government predict, assess and manage risk.

Reed Elsevier is a leading global provider of professional information solutions across a number of sectors.

The Shearman & Sterling team included partner Steve Camahort and associates Jeffrey Wolf and Lisa Lopshire (all San Francisco-Mergers & Acquisitions). Other Shearman & Sterling lawyers involved in this transaction were partners Steve Sherman (San Francisco-Finance), Larry Crouch (Palo Alto-Tax), Richard Hsu (Palo Alto-Intellectual Property Transactions), and Dale Collins (New York-Antitrust), and associates Kelly Karapetyan (New York-Antitrust), Daniel Stellenberg (Palo Alto-Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits), Zheng Bao (Palo Alto-Intellectual Property Transactions), Vittorio Cottafavi (New York-Antitrust), Nathan Wood (San Francisco-Finance), Anil Kalia (Palo Alto-Tax), Alykhan Kurji (New York-Intellectual Property Transactions) and Benjamin Petersen (Palo Alto- Intellectual Property Transactions).

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