Kirkland & Ellis advised GoGuardian, a portfolio company of Sumeru Equity Partners, on its merger with market-leading student engagement platform Pear Deck. GoGuardian is a K-12 EdTech company that provides solutions for safer, more productive digital learning. The merger enables a strong partnership that drives expansion into new, but interconnected growth areas. Read the GoGuardian press release

The Kirkland team was led by transactional partner Lilit Voskanyan and associates Stella Lee and Madeleine Foote; and included debt finance partners Francesco Penati and Katie Taylor, and associates Jeanne Lee John, Daniel Schwimmer and Tina He; tax partner Devin Heckman and associate Andrew Chan; technology & IP transactions partner Vladimir Khodosh and associate Derek Ventling; executive compensation partner Rohit Nafday and associate Jennifer Gong; employee benefits partner Alexandra Mihalas and associate Theodore Brown; employment & labor partner Sydney Jones and associate Jaime Wamble; real estate partner Roberto Miceli and associate Sohil Khurana; environmental partner Paul Tanaka and associate Michael Mahoney; international trade & national security partner Mario Mancuso, associate Luci Hague and law clerk Anais Bourbon; antitrust & competition partners Ian John and Stephanie Greco, and associates Kelsey Laugel and Jasmine Smith; and transactional partner Anna Geml.