Kirkland & Ellis is advising Advantive, a mission-critical software provider for specialty manufacturing and distribution businesses and a portfolio company of TA Associates, on the bolt-on acquisition of Abaca Systems, a business management software provider for the packaging industry.

The Kirkland team is being led by corporate partners Carlos Gil Rivas and Adrian Duncan and associates Joseph O’Brien and Arun Sohan-Pall; and tax partner Anthony Antioch and associate Amena Charles.