Kirkland & Ellis advised Vista Equity Partners, a leading global investment firm focused exclusively on enterprise software, data and technology-enabled businesses, on its lead Series B investment in Innovapptive Inc. (Innovapptive), a SaaS-based Connected Worker Platform. Existing investor Tiger Global Management also participated in the round. Innovapptive will use the investment to accelerate product innovation and reach new regional markets while further establishing its leadership position in the emerging connected worker software category.
The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Vlad Kroll and Eva Mak and associate Lauren Iwasaki; debt finance partners Sonali Jindal and Andrea Weintraub and associate Christian Rivas; tax partners David Kung and Heidi Yuen; and technology & IP transactions partners John Lynn and Daisy Darvall and associate Alex Barata.