Kirkland Advises Vista on Sale of Apptio to IBM for $4.6 Billion

Kirkland & Ellis represented Vista Equity Partners in its definitive agreement to sell Apptio Inc., a leader in financial and operational IT management and optimization (FinOps) software, to IBM (NYSE: IBM) for $4.6 billion. Apptio is an established, growing and profitable technology business management and FinOps leader, with over 1,500 clients, serving more than half of the Fortune 100.