Kirkland & Ellis is advising Luke Bidco Limited, a newly formed company indirectly wholly-owned by funds managed and/or advised by Thoma Bravo, L.P., on the recommended all cash acquisition of the entire issued, and to be issued, ordinary share capital of Darktrace. The acquisition values Darktrace’s entire issued, and to be issued, ordinary share capital at approximately $5,315 million on a fully diluted basis and implies an enterprise value of approximately $4,992 million.
The Kirkland team is being led by corporate partners Francesca Storey-Harris, David Higgins, Corey Fox, Bradley Reed, Vincent Bergin and Steven Page and associates Charles HĂ©bert, Dan Sarkin, Oliver Weighill, Bing Yi Lim, Russell Howland and Claire Mitzner; debt finance partners Brian Ford, Caitlin Bouey and Kirsteen Nicol and associates Shelby Nicole Lindholm, Adrian Kilercioglu and Igor Musienko; international risk partners Marcus Thompson and Nick Niles; investment funds partners Katie St. Peters and Nathan Jimenez; antitrust & competition partner Matthew Sinclair-Thomson; and technology and IP transactions partner Jenny Wilson and associates Ben Zeris and Corina Demeter-Olive.
