Deal Diary: Vista, Evergreen Line Up Citrix Financing
This article from The Deal highlights the financing and M&A work that Kirkland spearheaded on behalf of Vista Equity Partners on Vista's $16.5 billion buyout of Citrix Systems Inc. The transaction will be the largest that Vista has done, and one of the largest overall since 2007. The Kirkland team included debt finance partners Sonali Jindal and Austin Glassman, who advised on the term loan and revolver, capital markets partners Joshua Korff and Tim Cruickshank who led on the bridge loans and preferred equity, and corporate partners David Klein, Chelsea Darnell and Daniel Wolf who led on M&A.