Jared Maher

Kirkland & Ellis advised Truelink Capital on its definitive agreement to acquire GES, a leading provider in the global exhibition and event industry, from Viad Corp. This acquisition marks another significant investment for Truelink Capital, a middle-market private equity firm focused on creating long-term value by partnering with industry-leading companies. The transaction is expected to close by the end of the calendar year 2024, subject to customary closing conditions. Read the transaction press release The Kirkland team included corporate lawyers Sean Kramer, Jared Maher, Neil Tiwari and Chandler Nahigian; debt finance lawyer Brian Ford; investment funds lawyers Justin Solomon and Ted McBride; technology & IP transactions lawyers John Lynn and Seth Pritchard; tax lawyers Devin Heckman and Zak Morozov; executive compensation lawyers Rohit Nafday and Anthony Ji; employment & labor lawyer Christine Lacku; and employee benefits lawyer Justin Coddington.

Oct 21

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis advised Francisco Partners, a leading global investment firm that specializes in partnering with technology businesses, on the dual acquisitions of TradingScreen, a provider of trading execution and order management software, and Imagine Software, a real-time risk and compliance software platform. The combined company, TS Imagine, will be a dynamic end-to-end trading and portfolio management software platform for connecting the investment management industry with a network of brokers, banks and exchanges. Read the Francisco Partners press release The Kirkland teams for both acquisitions were led by corporate partner Sean Kramer and associate Jared Maher; debt finance partners Brian Ford and Shawn Bagdasarian; tax partner Devin Heckman; executive compensation partner Rohit Nafday; employee benefits partner Adria Crowe; employment & labor partner Sydney Jones; technology & IP transactions partner Vladamir Khodosh; and antitrust & competition partner Andrea Murino. Corporate partners Adam Phillips, Matt Cohen and Chris Keegan provided support.

May 3

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis advised TA Associates, True Wind Capital and their portfolio company, e-Emphasys Technologies, Inc., a global enterprise software provider for the heavy equipment and industrial machinery industry, on e-Emphasys’ carveout acquisition of CDK Global Heavy Equipment, the heavy equipment business of Brookfield-backed CDK Global. The combined business, which will continue to operate as e-Emphasys Technologies, will drive the market forward with innovative, industry-focused software suites to address the end-to-end business optimization needs of equipment dealers and rental companies. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Read the TA Associates press release The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Jared Maher and Sean Kramer and associates Michael Cline, Roni Zveiris, Tiffany Kwok, Jessica Jaw and Spencer Velarde; debt finance partners Brian Ford and Kathryn Leonard; technology and IP transactions partners John Lynn and Vlad Khodosh; tax partner Devin Heckman; executive compensation partner Rohit Nafday; employee benefits partner Chris Chase; employment & labor partner Sydney Jones; and antitrust & competition partners Andrea Murino and Sion Davies and associate Jack Coles.

May 3

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis advised Francisco Partners, a leading technology-focused global investment firm, on its acquisition of Follett School Solutions (FSS), a K-12 software and content company, from Follett Corporation. Read the Francisco Partners, FSS and Follett press release The Kirkland team was led by corporate partner Sean Kramer and associate Jared Maher; technology & IP transactions partner Vladimir Khodosh, and associates Seth Pritchard and Martin Schwertmann; debt finance partners Brian Ford and Shawn Bagdasarian; tax partner Devin Heckman; executive compensation partner Rohit Nafday; and employment & labor partner Sydney Jones.

Sep 1

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis LLP is pleased to announce that 193 attorneys have been promoted to partner effective October 1, 2022. Austin Name Practice Area Sean McClay Debt Finance Bay Area Name Practice Area Katya Boyko M&A and Private Equity Kyle Calhoun Intellectual Property Litigation Andrew Chan Tax Courtney Chen Investment Funds Zeke Couch Investment Funds Michael Hanna M&A and Private Equity Jared Maher M&A and Private Equity Ankur Sharma M&A and Private Equity Jessica Tjang Debt Finance Beijing Name Practice Area Justin You Zhou Capital Markets Boston Name Practice Area Brian Allen Investment Funds S. Grant Bowen Debt Finance Larissa Cespedes-Yaffar M&A and Private Equity Charles Chen Investment Funds Alexander Flynn-Tabloff Employment & Labor Tiffany M. Knapp Intellectual Property Litigation Scott Lenahan Investment Funds Alisha Patterson Investment Funds Chicago Name Practice Area Amelia Bailey Litigation Michael F. Black Investment Funds Kelsey Bleiweiss Litigation Cassandra Catalano Litigation Chris Chase Employee Benefits Bernadette Coppola Technology & IP Transactions Lee Discher Debt Finance Hannah Ehrenberg Real Estate Cot Eversole Capital Markets Cameron Ginder Litigation Jessica Giulitto Litigation Emily Hogan Debt Finance Kevin Jacobsen Technology & IP Transactions Nathan Jimenez Investment Funds Justin Joffe M&A and Private Equity Deidre Kalenderian Executive Compensation James Kestler Litigation Dan Latona Restructuring Michael LeFevour Litigation Patrick Loughery Debt Finance Caroline Lourgos Intellectual Property Litigation Kevin McClelland Restructuring Ryan McNish Investment Funds Taylor Melching M&A and Private Equity A.J. Million Capital Markets Patricia Radkowski Litigation Bruce Ratain Intellectual Property Litigation Tricia Schwallier Collins Restructuring Ashley Sinclair Capital Markets Kevin Stocks M&A and Private Equity Andrew Struckmeyer M&A and Private Equity Eric Sweigard M&A and Private Equity Julia Trotta Investment Funds Jordan Turban Miles M&A and Private Equity Patrick Valenti Investment Funds Daniella Vespoli M&A and Private Equity Neil Vohra M&A and Private Equity Kate Walling Litigation Andrew Walter Intellectual Property Litigation Jenny Warfield Real Estate Nicholas Warther Tax Michael Wester Investment Funds Margaret Yeager Private Equity/Private Investment & Family Office Ziyad Ziyadzade M&A and Private Equity Dallas Name Practice Area Victoria Acuff Real Estate Noah Allen Capital Markets Layton Bell Debt Finance Rudgee S. Charles Asset Finance & Securitization William C. Eiland II M&A and Private Equity Rebecca Fine Tax Ruben Garcia Litigation Catharine Hansard M&A and Private Equity Sable Hodson Litigation Randall W. Miller Litigation Hong Kong Name Practice Area Ryan Choi Capital Markets Min Lu M&A and Private Equity Stacey Shen M&A and Private Equity Shinong Wang Investment Funds Ling Zhu Investment Funds Houston Name Practice Area Jennifer Cornejo Environmental Transactions Patrick Corrigan M&A and Private Equity Alia Heintz M&A and Private Equity Ieuan List Capital Markets Rex Manning Litigation Patrick Y. Moneypenny M&A and Private Equity Ryan Phelps Tax Scott Reid Debt Finance Anthony Sanderson Capital Markets Zach Savrick M&A and Private Equity Shainee Shah Litigation Billy Vranish Capital Markets Camille Walker M&A and Private Equity Fraser Wayne M&A and Private Equity London Name Practice Area Gabriella Bornstein Intellectual Property Litigation Aisling Campbell Investment Funds Jacqueline Clover Technology & IP Transactions Chris Connolly M&A and Private Equity Daniel D’Ambrosio ESG and Impact Sion Davies Antitrust & Competition John de Rohan-Truba Intellectual Property Litigation Jack Donelan M&A and Private Equity Emma Faulkner-Hill Tax Joel Gory Antitrust & Competition Ben Hai M&A and Private Equity Rehan Hanif Debt Finance Gabe Harley Restructuring Hamesh Khatkar M&A and Private Equity Victoria Legg M&A and Private Equity Chrystel Marincich Capital Markets Patrick Navein Litigation Jiri Peterka M&A and Private Equity Lorenza Prelz Oltramonti Investment Funds David Pritchett Investment Funds Emma Reid Financial Services Regulatory Oscar Robinson Intellectual Property Litigation Claire Rushton M&A and Private Equity Shahrzad Sadjadi Antitrust & Competition Noah Stewart-Ornstein Litigation Jamie Thomson Investment Funds Los Angeles Name Practice Area Yvonne Beeler Intellectual Property Litigation Matthew Benedetto M&A and Private Equity Sam Blake Intellectual Property Litigation Yungmoon Chang Intellectual Property Litigation Eric Cohen M&A and Private Equity Caroline Epstein Debt Finance Amelia Gordon Debt Finance Andrew Hurley Debt Finance Garry Padrta M&A and Private Equity Ingrid Petersen Intellectual Property Litigation Christopher Raidy Debt Finance Michael Rosenberg Litigation Matthew Summers Litigation Munich Name Practice Area Marlene Ruf Restructuring New York Name Practice Area Sara Allawi Investment Funds Rachael Bentley Restructuring Guillemette Chamayou Investment Funds Jacob Clark Real Estate Linda Dahl Investment Funds Nathaniel DeLucia Intellectual Property Litigation Samuel Dykstra Environmental Transactions Vera Esses Litigation Ciara Foster Restructuring Peter C. Fritz M&A and Private Equity Asaf Gamzo Investment Funds J. Todd Garcia, Jr. Antitrust & Competition Olivia George Debt Finance Zoey Hitzert Capital Markets Timothy Hughes Debt Finance Derek Hunter Restructuring Rex Hupy M&A and Private Equity Jake Jung Tax Olga Kamensky Investment Funds Jennifer Karinen Capital Markets Kim Kaufman Investment Funds Katy Kim Investment Funds John Kleinjan Executive Compensation Jenny Lee Litigation Christie Mok Capital Markets Thomas Norelli Trusts & Estates Eugene Park Debt Finance Leila Ravi Debt Finance Brittany Roger Debt Finance Joanna Schlingbaum Technology & IP Transactions Fishel Schreiber Executive Compensation Ned Schultheis M&A and Private Equity Allyson Smith Restructuring Dominic Spence Real Estate Haley Stern Litigation Amanda Katlowitz Strickler Investment Funds David M. Towarnicky M&A and Private Equity Charles Wehbe M&A and Private Equity Colin Zelicof M&A and Private Equity Salt Lake City Name Practice Area Paul Hendrickson Tax Cameron Leishman M&A and Private Equity Matthew Pinegar Investment Funds Elena Simion M&A and Private Equity Spencer Topham M&A and Private Equity Shanghai Name Practice Area Sally Han Litigation Nelson Ni M&A and Private Equity Washington D.C. Name Practice Area Patrick Arnett Intellectual Property Litigation David Branham Executive Compensation Erin Cady Litigation Katherine Canning Litigation Steven Cantor Tax Michelle Sliwinski DeMaio Environmental Transactions Katie Drummonds Antitrust & Competition Lucie Duvall Antitrust & Competition/Consumer Protection Don Hong Litigation Mary Miller Litigation Karthik Ravishankar Intellectual Property Litigation Emily Scott Intellectual Property Litigation Ben Wallace Litigation Sally Ye Executive Compensation Note: For certain partners, admission will take effect when any necessary regulatory requirements have been satisfied.

Oct 3

4 min