Kirkland & Ellis advised Thoma Bravo, a leading private equity investment firm focused on the software and technology-enabled services sectors, on its acquisition of a controlling interest in AxiomSL, a leading provider of cloud-enabled risk management and regulatory solutions for banking, investment management, broker dealers and commodity trading institutions. The transaction is expected to close by the end of the year, subject to customary closing conditions. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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The Kirkland team was led by transactional associates Brett Nelson, Will Lawley and Tyler Neal with oversight from partners Ted Peto and Peter Stach; tax partners Kevin Coenen and Adam Kool and associate Steven Cantor; debt finance partner Maureen Dixon and associate Patrick Loughery; technology & IP transactions partners Seth Traxler, Aaron Lorber and Jenny Wilson and associates Kevin Jacobsen, Mohsen Ghazi, Eleanor Harley and Jessica Dye; employee benefits partners Michael Falk and Matthew Antinossi and associate Hannah Barlow; executive compensation partner Ian Sherwin and associate Brian Valcarce; labor & employment partner Michael Schulman; real estate partner John Caruso; environmental transactions partner Sara Webber and associate Michael Mahoney; international trade associate Luci Hague and law clerk Anais Bourbon; antitrust & competition partners Sally Evans, Matthew Sinclair-Thomson and Jacob Boyars; director of M&A clearance Kurt Wunderlich; and litigation partner James Mutchnik.
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