Kirkland Represents GTCR on Acquisition of Park Place Technologies from WestView Capital

Kirkland & Ellis LLP represented GTCR, a leading private equity firm, on its definitive agreement, announced today, to acquire Park Place Technologies from WestView Capital. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Park Place is a leading third-party maintenance (TPM) provider offering post-warranty data center maintenance services to clients around the world. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2015. More information on the deal is available here.

The Kirkland team representing GTCR was led by corporate partners Stephen Ritchie, Mark Fennell, Sean Kramer and Ryan Haas and corporate associate Anne Korenblit, with corporate associates Merrick Doll and David Birnbaum, debt finance partners Jocelyn Hirsch and Joshua Samis and associates Evan Palenschat and Patrick Sullivan, tax partner Russell Light and associate Joel Peters-Fransen, and labor and employment partner Matthew Keiser and associate Bryan O'Keefe.