Kirkland & Ellis is advising funds advised by Apax Partners LLP on its simultaneous acquisitions of OCS from Charme Capital Partners and of Finwave from the Lutech Group, creating one of the preeminent players in financial software in Europe. The two companies will continue serving customers under the OCS and Finwave brands. Read Apax’s press release The Kirkland team is led by corporate partners Jacob Traff, Stuart Boyd, Victoria Legg and Dana Abdulkarim and includes associates Steven Hunter, Bonian Wu, Andrew Mon, Talodabioluwa Olu-Odugbemi and Joe Timmins; debt finance partner Ian Barratt and associate Alice Mackenzie; technology & IP transactions partners Jacqueline Clover and Emma Flett and associate Stephen Coudounaris; and tax partner Alan Walker and associates Krishan Patel and Koko Xu.