Fidelity National Financial, Inc. Announces Acquisition of Hudson & Marshall

PR Newswire

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., May 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Fidelity National Financial, Inc. ("FNF") today announced the acquisition of Hudson & Marshall ("H&M"), a full-service auction company and one of the nation's top real estate and property auction providers.

FNF and H&M expect to partner to further enhance the services FNF can provide to its strong lender, servicer and real estate agent relationships. Additionally, H&M will be powering ServiceLink Auction, a new, results-driven, full-service auction platform that will be fully integrated with ServiceLink's suite of products and technologies.

"We continue to seek ways to provide more value-added services to our lender, servicer and real estate agent customers and H&M's auction capabilities can help us do that," said Chairman William P. Foley, II. "Additionally, H&M and ServiceLink can partner to provide a fully integrated auction platform for our default services client base."

About Fidelity National Financial, Inc.
Fidelity National Financial, Inc. is organized into two groups, FNF Group (NYSE: FNF) and FNFV Group (NYSE: FNFV). FNF is a leading provider of title insurance, technology and transaction services to the real estate and mortgage industries. FNF is the nation's largest title insurance company through its title insurance underwriters - Fidelity National Title, Chicago Title, Commonwealth Land Title, Alamo Title and National Title of New York - that collectively issue more title insurance policies than any other title company in the United States. FNF also provides industry-leading mortgage technology solutions and transaction services, including MSP®, the leading residential mortgage servicing technology platform in the U.S., through its majority-owned subsidiaries, Black Knight Financial Services and ServiceLink Holdings. FNFV holds majority and minority equity investment stakes in a number of entities, including American Blue Ribbon Holdings, LLC, Ceridian HCM, Inc., Digital Insurance, Inc. and Del Frisco's Restaurant Group, Inc. More information about FNF and FNFV can be found at www.fnf.com.

Forward-Looking Statements
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