Daisy L. Darvall, P.C.

Technology/Software/AI

• Vista Equity Partners and portfolio companies in over 200 transactions, including:
  
  • $16.5 billion acquisition alongside Evergreen Coast Capital Corporation, an affiliate of Elliott Investment Management L.P., of cloud-computing company Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS).
  • $4.6 billion sale of Apptio, a provider of financial and operational IT management and optimization software, to IBM (NYSE: IBM).
  • $4.6 billion acquisition of KnowBe4Inc. an industry leading cyber security awareness and training firm.
  • $8.4 billion acquisition of Avalara (NYSE: AVLR), a provider of tax compliance automation software.
  • $2.6 billion acquisition of Duck Creek Technologies (Nasdaq: DCT), software solutions provider defining the future of property and casualty (P&C) insurance.
  • $2.3 billion acquisition of Salesloft, a provider of a sales engagement platform.
  • $2.8 billion sale of Ping Identity (NYSE: PING), a provider of enterprise identity solutions, on its sale to Thoma.
  • $1.5 billion sale of Numerator, a tech-driven consumer and market intelligence company, to Bain Capital-backed Kantar.
  • $2.25 billion sale of Wrike, a SaaS collaborative work management provider, to Citrix Systems (Nasdaq: CTXS).
  • $6.2 billion sale of Datto, a global provider of security and cloud-based software solutions purpose-built for managed service providers (MSPs), to Kaseya, a provider of unified IT management and security software.
• The Blackstone Group in multiple transactions, including:
  
  • $1.6 billion acquisition of Interior Logic Group Holdings, LLC (Nasdaq: ILG), a leading, data-driven and technology-enabled provider of interior design, supply and installation management solutions.
  • multibillion-dollar acquisition by funds managed by Blackstone (in conjunction with Vista Equity Partners), of Ellucian, a leading higher education technology solutions provider, from TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners, L.P.
• Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe in multiple transactions, including WCAS-backed GovernmentCIO in its add-on acquisition of Salient CRGT, a provider of data analytics, cloud, agile software development, cybersecurity and infrastructure solutions to U.S. national security, federal civilian and federal health agencies.

Media/Entertainment/Sports

• KKR in multiple transactions, including acquisition of a majority stake in Thomson Reuters Global Print Business, forming a new joint venture valued in excess of $5 billion.
• Robert F. Smith, Founder & CEO of Vista Equity Partners, in multiple entertainment endeavors and investments including in film. television and media.
• Motorola in multiple transactions, including restructuring of IP assets, licensing matters, acquisitions and joint ventures.
• Creative Artists Agency in its investment in Primary Wave, a transformative leading independent publisher of iconic music.
• Seeker Music Group, the creator-led music rights, publishing and record company led by award-winning songwriter and creative executive Evan Bogart, with backing from international savings and investment business M&G, on the close of its inaugural $267 million ABS (asset-backed securitization).
• Warburg Pincus in multiple transactions, including the creation of transformative brand acquisition firm, Full Sail IP Partners.
• Amer Sports, a Finnish sporting goods company in the $420 million carve-out sale of Amer’s Precor division to Peloton (Nasdaq: PTON).
• Centrury Cricket in multiple sport and entertainment endeavors including a joint-venture with Kingswood Enterprises and new initiatives involving sporting technology throughout the United States.
  

Consumer

• KKR in its strategic investment in Keurig Dr Pepper (Nasdaq: KDP), including a definitive agreement for a $3 billion convertible preferred stock investment in KDP and the eventual beverage business that will remain following the spin-off by KDP of its coffee business including a JDE Peet’s, KKR and Apollo $4 billion K-Cup® pod manufacturing joint venture.
• Blackstone-sponsored Tropical Smoothie Cafe, LLC (TSC) in connection with the issuance of its Series 2026-1 term notes under its whole business securitization (WBS) facility, comprising $180 million of Class A-2 notes and $90 million of subordinated Class M notes, which are the first tranche of subordinated notes issued by TSC and among the first issued in the WBS market.

Energy/Resources/Data Centers

• Civitas Resources, Inc. (NYSE: CIVI) in its $12.8 billion all-stock combination with SM Energy Company (NYSE: SM).
• BlackRock in a billion-dollar investment in the development of STRATOS, the world’s largest Direct Air Capture facility and joint venture with Occidental (the first deal of its kind with Kirkland & Ellis LLP).
• TPG in its acquisition of solar developer Altus Power for approximately $2.2 billion in an all-cash deal.
• Vista Equity Partners on a joint venture with Cambium Capital to launch Vector Core Compute (VC2), the world’s first commercially-available enterprise inference cloud for disaggregated inference leveraging technologies across SambaNova, Intel and NVIDIA.
  

Life Sciences

• Danaher Corp. (NYSE: DHR) in its carveout acquisition of the Biopharma business of GE Life Sciences for $21.4 billion.
• Danaher Corp. (NYSE: DHR) in its $9.6 billion acquisition of Aldevron, a provider of plasmid DNA, mRNA and recombinant proteins used in vaccines, gene and cell therapy, gene editing and diagnostic applications, from EQT Private Equity and TA Associates.
• Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in partnership with Sanofi to acquire a 50% controlling stake in consumer healthcare champion, Opella, valued at approximately €16 billion (EV).
  

Strategic Investments

• Hunter Point Capital (HPC) in multiple investment transactions, including:
  
  • strategic partnership with Inflexion, a mid-market private equity firm investing across the UK and Europe with approximately £8 billion in assets under management.
  • Riverwood Capital, a Silicon Valley private equity firm focused on high-growth tech investments, managing $6.2 billion with investments in 84 technology companies.
  • minority stake global consumer-focused investment firm L Catterton.

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