Travis Lee Nelson, P.C.

Kirkland & Ellis advised Hg on a strategic investment in CINC Systems, a leading cloud-based software company serving the community association management sector. Upon completion of the transaction, Hg will become a strategic growth investor alongside CINC Founder Bill Blanton, its management team, as well as current investor Spectrum Equity. Read the transaction press release The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Travis Nelson, Rodin Hai-Jew and Cameron Leishman and associates Dan O’Connor, Alexi Warren, Asal Yunusov and Taylor Petersen; debt finance partners Sonali Jindal and Austin Glassman and associate Christian Rivas; tax partners Kevin Coenen and Bill Dong and associate Grace Nielsen; payments and financial services regulatory of counsel Julie Kunetka; technology & IP transactions partners John Lynn and Amber Harezlak and associates Thao Thai and Joe Evans; executive compensation partner Jack Stratton and associate Dominique Collins; employment & labor partner Sydney Jones and associates Jaime Wamble and Maayan Sachs; employee benefits partner Bob Zitko and associate Milteva Andonellis; environmental transactions partner Jim Dolphin and associate Alyssa Huang; real estate partner Rob Miceli and associate Benjamin Stoyenko; international trade & national security partner Luci Hague and associate Erika Krum; and antitrust & competition partners Scott Scheele and Matthew Wheatley and associate Declan Duggan.

Dec 14

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis advised Renters Legal Liability LLC, a Utah-based managing general agency (MGA) insurance company specializing in renters’ legal liability products for multifamily real estate owners and managers across the U.S., on the sale of all of its assets to DOXA Insurance Holdings, a specialty underwriting and distribution company (recently acquired by Goldman Sachs Asset Management), which provides MGA services, wholesale, affinity programs, and alternative risk solutions for specialized industries. Financial terms of the transaction, which signed on February 29, 2024 and closed on April 1, 2024, have not been disclosed. Read the DOXA press release The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Travis Nelson, Dan Daines and Mike Cline, and associates Max Chaffetz and Selin Ozaltun; and included tax partner David Morris and associate Michael Farrell.

Apr 5

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis advised private equity firm HGGC and AMI on the pending sale of the firmware solutions provider to investment firm THL Partners. The transaction was announced September 9, 2024 and is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2024 pending regulatory approvals. Financial terms were not disclosed. AMI develops foundational software and firmware that powers, manages and secures a vast array of computing platforms, widely used across data centers. Read the transaction press release The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Travis Nelson, Marc Browning and Cameron Leishman.

Sep 16

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis advised Merit Financial Advisors, a portfolio company of HGGC, on a capital partnership with Neuberger Berman Capital Solutions. Merit is a hybrid, SEC-Registered Investment Adviser based in Atlanta, GA, that maintains 40 offices throughout the U.S. As of September 30, 2023, Merit managed $8.96 billion in client assets. Read the transaction press release The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Travis Nelson, Rodin Hai-Jew, Cameron Leishman and Michael Cline; debt finance partners Sonali Jindal and Aditi Iyer; capital markets partners Joshua Korff and Ben Richards; and tax partner Kevin Coenen.

Nov 1

1 min