Kirkland & Ellis is advising BC Partners and Vista Private Equity and their portfolio company, Advanced, on the carve-out sale of its application modernization capabilities to IBM, bringing a combination of talent, tools and knowledge to enhance IBM Consulting’s mainframe application and data modernization services.
The Kirkland team is led by corporate partners Tom Bartram and Vlad Kroll and associates Christina Beyer, Athena Chuang, Fareed Karbassyoon and Melissa Sawyer; technology & IP transactions partners Jacqueline Clover, John Lynn, Daisy Darvall and Emma Flett and associates Alex Barata and Amani Coutinho; employment & labor partner Sydney Jones and associate Mallory McKenzie; employee benefits partner Robert Zitko and associate Iris Grossman; tax partners Zak Morozov, Sam Trowbridge, Alan Walker and Heidi Yuen and associate Rikesh Gandhi; debt finance partner Douglas Tedeschi; and antitrust & competition partner Mark Gardner.
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