Allison Bray

While at Kirkland, Allison has been involved in the following matters:

• Magnum Opus Acquisition Limited (NYSE: OPA), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, on its $630 million business combination with Forbes Global Media Holdings Inc.
• Software Acquisition Group Inc. II (Nasdaq: SAII), a U.S. publicly-traded special purpose acquisition company, on its proposed merger with Otonomo Technologies Ltd.
• Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. in its investment in System One Holdings, LLC.
• Francisco Partners and its portfolio company eSolutions in its pending sale of eSolutions to Waystar.
• QGenda in its strategic growth investment from ICONIQ Capital.
• Clearlake Capital Partners in the formation of its $14.1 billion Clearlake Capital Partners VII.

Prior to joining Kirkland, Allison was involved in the following matters:

• Altera Corporation & Subsidiaries v. Commissioner of the IRS — Assisted in drafting the Amici brief in support of the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service.
• Nauflett v. Commissioner of the IRS — Presented oral argument before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on whether the 90-day filing deadline in Internal Revenue Code section 6015(e)(1)(A) is jurisdictional or whether the filing deadline can be subject to equitable tolling.

Summer Associate, Paul Hastings LLP, 2018

Student Attorney, Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School, Federal Tax Unit, 2018