Fahrenheit IT Staffing and Consulting, a division of Global Employment Solutions, acquired Midwest IT staffing and consulting firm Halo Group and its affiliates Sonoma Consulting and Geneva Technical Services.

The transaction closed July 31.

The acquisition expands Fahrenheit IT further into the Midwest and strengthens its presence in the strong Dallas and Atlanta IT staffing markets.

“We’re thrilled to bring two market leaders together,” said Paul Seymour, CEO of Global Employment Solutions and Fahrenheit IT. “The acquisition of Halo Group, one of the most respected providers of IT staffing services, strengthens our ability to deliver superior service to our IT professionals, expands our collective client capabilities and geographic reach, and advances Fahrenheit IT as one of the most exciting and fastest-growing US staffing firms.”

Halo Group provides UX/UI, data and analytics, and cloud consultants as well as personnel in all areas of security, project governance and multi-platform application development. It is headquartered in Detroit, with additional offices in Atlanta, Chicago and Dallas. Geneva Technical Services is an IT consulting and staffing services firm and Sonoma Consulting an IT consulting and executive search firm; both are headquartered in Chicago.

Halo Group was a portfolio company of Chicago-based private equity firm Highlands Ventures LLC, which acquired Geneva Technical Services in February and Sonoma Consulting in December and folded them into Halo.

With $150 million in 2016 US IT temporary staffing revenue, Global Employment Solutions ranks No. 32 on Staffing Industry Analysts’ recently released list of largest IT staffing firms in the US.