Abhishek Kolay, P.C.

Kirkland & Ellis advised Apax (the “Apax Funds”) on its acquisition of Infogain, a Silicon Valley-based leader in digital transformation and software services, from ChrysCapital. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in Q3 2021. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Read the Apax Funds press release The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Abhishek Kolay and Srinivas Kaushik and associates Neil Vohra, Zoe Dixon, Arjun Karthikeyan, Mary Fay Karras, Fariha Syed and Luke Salisbury and included support from partner Adam Clifford. Debt finance partners Jay Ptashek, Andrew Idrizovic and Omar Raddawi led on financing for the transaction.

Jun 11

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis advised Hellman & Friedman LLC, a preeminent global private equity firm, on its lead role as part of an investor group acquiring Zendesk, Inc. (NYSE: ZEN), a service-first CRM company that builds software designed to improve customer relationships, for approximately $10.2 billion. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2022 and is subject to customary closing conditions. Read the transaction press release The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Richard Campbell, Daniel Wolf, Peter Martelli and Abhishek Kolay, antitrust partner Thomas Sebastian Wilson, and international trade partner Ivan Schlager.

Jun 24

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis is advising private equity firm Bain Capital on Orogen Group’s investment in its portfolio company Brillio, which provides digital transformation services. The transaction was announced on September 5, 2023. Bain Capital purchased a stake in Brillio in 2019 and will continue to be a strategic investor and help support the company’s growth. Financial terms of the private transaction were not disclosed. Read the press release The Kirkland team is led by corporate partners Abhishek Kolay, Sri Kaushik and Adarsh Varghese, and associates Kartik Khanna and Sagun Poudyal; tax partners Mike Carew and Meg Dewar; executive compensation partners Scott Price and Jabir Yusoff; and antitrust partners Paula Riedel and Mike Thorpe and associate Samantha Jones.

Sep 8

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis is advising global growth investor Warburg Pincus on a merger between foodservice disposables and sanitation (JanSan) products maker BradyIFS and Envoy Solutions, which is a distributor of JanSan products, foodservice disposables, and industrial packaging solutions. Warburg is making a strategic investment in the newly merged entity. BradyIFS is a portfolio company of Kelso. Envoy is a subsidiary of Fomento Económico Mexicano SAB de CV (FEMSA), which will maintain a significant minority share in the combined business after the merger. The merger is expected to close in the upcoming months. Read the transaction press release The Kirkland team is led by corporate partners Jai Agrawal and Abhishek Kolay and associates Philippe Simard, Yash Nair and Kruthi Venkatesh; tax partners David Grenker and Vivek Ratnam; executive compensation partners Mike Krasnovsky and Jabir Yusoff; and antitrust & competition partners Marin Boney, Michael Thorpe and Matthew Sinclair-Thomson.

Sep 5

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis advised ArisGlobal, a portfolio company of Nordic Capital, on the acquisition of Amplexor Life Sciences, a life sciences organization focused on end-to-end regulatory process, compliance and operational excellence. Read ArisGlobal’s press release The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Louis Gosset and Vincent Ponsonnaille, with support from corporate partners Constantine Skarvelis and Abhishek Kolay and associates Etienne Vautier, Sandra Lewitz and Kimberly Guo; technology & IP transactions partner John Patten and associates Ben Zeris and Lana Khoury; tax partners Sonia Bouaffassa and Vivek Ratnam; and antitrust partners Paula Riedel and Thomas Wilson and associate Alexandre Rouhette.

Apr 26

1 min