Press Release

Kirkland Represents Vista Equity Partners on $2.6 billion Acquisition of Duck Creek Technologies

Kirkland & Ellis advised Vista Equity Partners, a leading global investment firm, on its acquisition of Duck Creek Technologies (NASDAQ: DCT), the intelligent solutions provider defining the future of property and casualty insurance, for approximately $2.6 billion. The transaction is expected to close in the second calendar quarter of 2023, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.

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The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners David Klein, Daniel Wolf, Stuart Casillas, Chelsea Darnell and Ari Levi and associates Steven Choi and Benjamin Jain, debt finance partners Sonali Jindal and Austin Glassman and associate Christian Rivas, capital markets partner Robert Goedert, executive compensation partner Rohit Nafday and associate Anthony Ji, technology & IP transactions partners Daisy Darvall and John Lynn, tax partners David Kung and Heidi Yuen and antitrust & competition partners Marin Boney and Mark Gardner.