Kirkland Advises Accel-KKR on Sale of Majority Interest in Smart Communications to Cinven

Kirkland & Ellis advised global software and technology-focused private equity firm Accel-KKR on the sale of a majority interest in Smart Communications, a provider of cloud-based enterprise customer communications, to private equity firm Cinven. Accel-KKR will retain a minority equity ownership position in Smart going forward. Other terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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The Kirkland team included corporate lawyers Carlos Gil Rivas, James Hunn, Andrew McAlpine, Steven Hunter, Michael Dunton and Claudia Carr; tax lawyers Devin Heckman and Katie Price; and technology and IP transactions lawyers Stephen Coudounaris and Luke Vaz.