Kirkland & Ellis advised Francisco Partners, a leading global investment firm that specializes in partnering with technology businesses, on its definitive agreement to acquire AdvancedMD, a leading cloud-based provider of medical office software, from Global Payments, Inc. (NYSE: GPN), a leading worldwide provider of payment technology and software solutions. The acquisition is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2024, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. Read Francisco Partners’ press release The Kirkland team included corporate lawyers Michele Cumpston, Sean Kramer and Jeffrey Siwik; technology and IP transactions lawyers Vlad Khodosh and Martin Schwertmann; and debt finance lawyer Brian Ford.