Sidley represented insurtech company Zywave, Inc., backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. and Aurora Capital Partners, in its acquisition of Columbus, Ohio-based Strategic Insurance Software (SIS), a provider of web-based agency management systems and customer relationship management solutions for property and casualty insurance agencies. The addition of SIS rounds out Zywave’s portfolio of agency management system solutions for employee benefits, commercial, and personal lines.
The deal team was led by Mehdi Khodadad and Nicolai Schwarz-Gondek (M&A and Private Equity), and included Mark Castiglia, Feifei Bian, Jonathan Litsey, and Grant Ellis (M&A and Private Equity); Nicholas Schwartz, Shawn Bagdasarian, Shneur Wolvovsky, Danielle Levitsky, and Shan Lu (Global Finance); Eric Kauffman and Emily Wajert (Labor and Employment); Stacy Crosnicker and Sarah Recktenwald (Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation); Kyle Barnett (Technology Transactions); Rachel Kleinberg and Jonathan Westreich (Tax); Karen Kazmerzak and Ken Daly (Antitrust/Competition); Ash Nagdev and Sasha Hondagneu-Messner (Privacy and Cybersecurity); and Keith Hayden Del Prete, Elizabeth McCloy, Jonathan Koh, and Joy Kerr (Real Estate).
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