Ryan A. Jackson

Represented Lou Malnati's Pizzeria, a Northbrook, Illinois-based pizza restaurant chain, in its strategic partnership with BDT Capital Partners, investment banking company

Represented Bain Capital Private Equity in its $3.2 billion global carve-out acquisition of Diversey Care from Sealed Air, a packaging solutions company

Represented Thoma Bravo in connection with its acquisition of Applitools, a leading provider of visual test automation software

Represented Thoma Bravo in connection with its acquisition of Command Alkon, a leading supplier collaboration platform for construction's heavy work

Represented Thoma Bravo and Veriforce in connection with its acquisition of Complyworks, Canada's leading compliance management solution provider

Represented Thoma Bravo in connection with its strategic growth investment in PDFTron, a global leading provider of document technology solutions for software developers

Represented Thoma Bravo in connection with its acquisition of Zipari, the company behind the first and only consumer experience platform built specifically for health insurance

Represented Thoma Bravo in connection with its acquisition of Healthx, a provider of trusted healthcare engagement technologies

Represented Thoma Bravo, along with Command Alkon, in connection with a carve-out acquisition of the construction logistics business from Trimble, a California-based hardware, software and services technology company

Represented GTCR and Mega Broadband Investments, a broadband services investment company, in its acquisition of Vyve Broadband, a cable and broadband technology company

Represented GTCR and Dash Financial Technologies, a financial technology company, in its sale to Flexpoint Ford, a capital market company

Represented GTCR and its portfolio company Convergex, a brokerage and trading services firm, in its sale to Cowen, an investment banking company

Represented GTCR and Convergex in the combination of LiquidPoint, Convergex's options trading and technology business, and Dash Financial Technologies

Represented GTCR and Avention, a business-to-business sales company, in its sale to Dun & Bradstreet, a global business data and analytics company

Represented GTCR and AssuredPartners, a property and casualty insurance brokerage, in the sale of AssuredPartners to Apax Partners, a British private equity firm

Represented GTCR in its strategic equity investment in Transaction Data Systems (Rx30), a leading developer and supplier of pharmacy management software solutions to independent, hospital, long-term care and specialty pharmacy markets

Represented GTCR and Transaction Data Systems, in connection with its acquisition of KloudScript, a cloud-based specialty pharmacy solution

Represented GTCR and Stergenics International in its recapitalization of Stergenics, a leading global provider of mission-critical sterilization services to the medical device, pharmaceutical, food safety and high-performance materials industries, from an affiliate of Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm focused on growth investing

Represented GTCR in connection with its acquisition of Pharm Assess, a pharmacy assessment consulting company

Represented GTCR in connection with its strategic investment in Point Broadband LLC, a company that provides fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) high-speed data (HSD) services to residential and business customers in select markets east of the Mississippi River

Represented GTCR in connection with its acquisition of RevSpring Inc., a leading provider of multi-channel billing and communications solutions to the healthcare and financial services industries

Represented Union Park Capital in connection with its acquisition of CMC-KUHNKE GmbH, a global leader in quality control measurement instruments for food, beverage and aerosol cans

Represented Union Park Capital in connection with its formation of Advanced Environmental Monitoring Holdings, a family of companies focused on monitoring of critical environmental parameters, including meteorology, hydrology, air and soil

Represented Union Park Capital in connection with its acquisition of Davis Instruments Corp., a leader in developing and manufacturing precision weather, marine and environmental instrumentation

Represented Union Park Capital in connection with its acquisition of Earth Networks, which helps organizations mitigate financial, operational and human risk by providing environmental intelligence from the world's largest hyperlocal weather network

Represented Union Park Capital in connection with its acquisition of Forest Technology Systems Ltd., a leading manufacturer of remote environmental monitoring solutions, including systems, instrumentation, telemetry and software, for the hydrology, fire, weather and meteorology industries

Represented Union Park Capital in connection with its acquisition of High Sierra Electronics, which specializes in flood warning sensors, equipment and transmitters for public and improved traffic safety

Represented Union Park Capital in connection with its formation of Industrial Physics, a company created to build an integrated network of small and mid-sized businesses offering materials and physical testing instrumentation

Represented Union Park Capital in connection with its formation of KPM analytics to bring together a portfolio of analytical instrument companies focused in the food, agriculture and environmental sectors

Represented Union Park Capital in connection with its acquisition of LAMBRECHT meteo GmbH, a leading provider of specialized measurement technology with a focus on wind, precipitation, temperature, pressure and humidity, as well as dataloggers

Represented Union Park Capital in connection with its acquisition of OneRain Inc. a leading provider of rainfall-related data and services to local, state and federal agencies across the U.S.

Represented Union Park Capital in connection with its acquisition of Testing Machines Inc., a global manufacturer of testing instrumentation for the paper, pulp, film, foil, ink, coatings, nonwoven and corrugated industries

Represented Union Park Capital in connection with its acquisition of TM Electronics, which provides leak detection equipment to improve quality and productivity in the medical device, consumer electronics and food markets

Represented Union Park Capital in connection with its acquisition of United Testing Systems, a company that manufacturers machines for tension, compression and materials testing applications

Represented Union Park Capital in connection with its acquisition of Vieux & Associates Inc., a leading provider of advanced technologies for rainfall and runoff products and services serving wet weather, stormwater, flood and water resources applications

Represented Union Park Capital in connection with its acquisition of Z-LASER GmbH, which designs and manufactures laser sources and laser projectors for positioning, measurement and other specialty original equipment manufacturer (OEM) applications

Represented Sun Capital Partners Inc. in connection with its acquisition of Calcium Products Inc., a leading manufacturer of calcium-based fertilizers for row and specialty crop growers as well as the professional turf industry

Represented ParkerGale Capital in connection with its acquisition of EditShare, a privately owned postproduction technology developer

Represented TA Associates in its investment – alongside private investment firm GI Partners – in Netsmart Technologies Inc., a leading healthcare software company delivering management process solutions and electronic medical records to the health and human services (HHS) and post-acute end markets

Represented TA Associates in its investment in Aldevron LLC, a biological science company

Represented Audax Group in its acquisition of Checkers Industrial Safety Products, a manufacturer of industrial safety products and construction safety equipment

Represented Flexpoint Ford in its sale of T&H Global Holdings, a Chicago-based insurance claims services company, to Sedgwick Claims Management Services, a claims and productive management services company

Represented Olympus Partners and The Homax Group, a consumer products company, in its sale of the cleaning products division of Homax Products to Weiman Products, a specialty surface cleaning manufacturer

Represented Olympus Partners and The Homax Group in the sale of The Homax Group to PPG Architectural Coatings, a global supplier of paints, coatings and specialty materials

Represented Beecken Petty O'Keefe in its acquisition of Examination Management Services, a risk management services company

Represented GoodVets Group on its partnership with SkyKnight Capital to accelerate growth and build leading, modern veterinary care platform*

* Matters with an asterisk were completed outside of Kirkland.