Craig Muir is a Partner and Head of Software, Data & Analytics. He joined Solomon Partners in 2023 to further build out the firm’s Technology group.

Craig has over two decades of corporate finance experience, and has advised on critical sellside, buyside, capital raises, strategic partnerships, and other transactions. Prior to joining Solomon Partners, Craig was a Managing Director in the Technology group at Houlihan Lokey and a member of the Data & Analytics team. Prior to that, he was a Managing Director at Quayle Munro where he was instrumental in developing their Technology practice.

 Select publicly announced, completed advisory transactions include:

  • Recapitalization of Kpler by Insight Partners and Five Arrows
  • Merger of Evaluate and MMIT
  • Sale of Samba Safety to Stone Point Capital
  • Merger of Novantas and FBX, capitalized by Informa and Inflexion
  • Recapitalization of Evaluate by Hg Capital
  • Sale of OPS to OEConnection
  • Sale of eDriving to Solera
  • Sale of Informa’s EPFR division to Montagu Private Equity
  • Sale of Informa’s Asset Intelligence division to Randall Reilly
  • Sale of GeoPhy to Walker and Dunlop
  • Sale of Bureau van Dijk to Moody’s
  • Sale of Sequel to Verisk
  • Sale of Power Advocate to Verisk
  • Sale of Wood Mackenzie to Hellman & Friedman
  • Sale of Fulcrum Financial Data to Fitch Group

Craig earned a B Comm in Finance, Economics and Business from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and holds a CIMA certification.

Select Recent Transactions

Served as financial advisor to Verity, a portfolio company of Resurgens Technology Partners, on its sale to TMX Group
October 2025
Served as financial advisor to Charlesbank on its strategic investment in IMPLAN
November 2024
Served as financial advisor to New Mountain Capital and Endicott Capital on its strategic growth investment in Datassential
September 2024
Served as financial advisor to Reg-Room on its sale to CUBE
May 2024
Served as financial advisor to MediaRadar on its acquisition of Kantar Group’s Vivvix
November 2023
Served as financial advisor to Spectrum Equity on its growth investment in Benchmark Mineral Intelligence
November 2023

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