Freshfields is representing the Special Committee of PowerSchool Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PWSC), a leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education, in connection with its pending sale to Bain Capital in a transaction valuing the company at $5.6 billion. Details of the transaction can be found here. The Freshfields team included M&A partners Damien Zoubek and Sanjay Murti, and associates Victor Ma and Nicole Johnson; as well as tax partner Claude Stansbury.