Kirkland & Ellis is advising Advantive, a mission-critical software provider for specialty manufacturing and distribution businesses and a portfolio company of TA Associates, on the bolt-on acquisition of Abaca Systems, a business management software provider for the packaging industry. Read Advantive’s press release The Kirkland team is being led by corporate partners Carlos Gil Rivas and Adrian Duncan and associates Joseph O’Brien and Arun Sohan-Pall; and tax partner Anthony Antioch and associate Amena Charles.