EXPERIENCE

Austin’s representative transactions include advising:

• Cambrian Innovation in its sale to Pennybacker Capital
• Cerberus Capital Management in its acquisition of a controlling stake in Staples’ European operations
• Evergreen Coast Capital in its acquisition of the Dell Software Group
• Foresite Capital in its acquisition of Pardes Biosciences
• Francisco Partners:
  • in its acquisition of Capsule Technologies and $635 million sale to Philips
  • and TA Associates in their acquisition of Edifecs
  • in its acquisition of PayScale
  • in its acquisition of RedSail Technologies from J M Smith Corporation
  • in its $1.3 billion sale of eSolutions to Waystar, a portfolio company of EQT, Bain and CPPIB
  • in its acquisition of iZotope and in connection with iZotope’s partnership with Native Instruments to form Music Creation Group
  • in its investment in News Break’s $115 million Series C funding
  • in its strategic investment in GreenSlate
  • in its $225 million financing with Eventbrite
  • portfolio company Capsilon in its sale to Ellie Mae
  • portfolio company iconectiv in its acquisition of CSF
  • portfolio company NMI in its acquisition of USAePay
  • portfolio company PayScale in its merger with Payfactors
  • portfolio company QGenda in its acquisitions of Shift Admin and OpenTempo and its strategic investment from ICONIQ Capital
  • portfolio company RedSail Technologies in its combination with PioneerRx
  • portfolio company Renaissance Learning in its $650 million acquisition of Nearpod
• FTV Capital:
  • in the merger of Clearent and Transaction Services Group
  • in its acquisition of a majority stake in DocuPace
  • in its growth equity investment in 6 Degrees Health
  • in its investment into Neon One with Blue Star Innovation Partners
  • in its investment in StoneEagle Services / VPay
  • in its $150 million recapitalization of Enfusion with ICONIQ Growth
  • in its recapitalization of InvestCloud with Motive Partners and Clearlake Capital
• Futureverse Corporation Limited in connection with its growth equity fundraise and eight metaverse company roll-up
• General Atlantic in its growth investment in Chess.com
• Golden Gate Capital in the sale of a majority stake of its portfolio company Vector Solutions to Genstar Capital
• HGGC and its portfolio company Idera in connection with an investment from Partners Group
• High Bluff Capital Partners, alongside funds managed by FS Investments, in its acquisition of Church's Chicken from FFL Partners
• K1 Investment Management in connection with a strategic investment by Harvest Partners into Granicus
• Lone View Capital in its investment in Trend Health Partners
• Micro Focus in its $1.2 billion merger with the Attachmate Group
• Neustar, a portfolio company of Golden Gate Capital:
  • in its $3.1 billion sale, by a private investment group led by Golden Gate Capital and with minority participation from GIC, to TransUnion
  • in its acquisition of the security services customers of Verisign for up to $120 million
  • in the $218 million carve-out sale of its registry business to GoDaddy
• Oak Hill Capital in its acquisition of a controlling stake in Technimark Holdings
• Shopify in its $2.1 billion acquisition of Deliverr
• SVF Investment Corp. 3, sponsored by an affiliate of SoftBank Investment Advisers, in its merger with Symbotic to form a publicly traded company with a pro-forma equity value of $5.5 billion
• The Boys & Girls Club of Moorpark in its merger with the Boys & Girls Club of Simi Valley
• Tower Arch Capital in its sale of Corbett Technology Solutions (CTSI) to Wind Point Partners
• True Wind Capital:
  • in its $140 million acquisition of ARI Network Services and in the recapitalization of ARI Network Services with TA Associates
  • in its acquisition of Dealer Spike
  • in its acquisition of The Switch
  • portfolio company The Switch in its acquisition of Pacific Television Center
• Vista Equity Partners:
  • in its $1.2 billion acquisition of ACTIVE Network
  • in its $1.55 billion acquisition of EAB (formerly The Advisory Board’s education business)
  • in its $3.57 billion acquisition of D+H Corporation through Finastra (formerly Misys)
  • in its acquisition of PeopleAdmin
  • in its acquisition of TransFirst and $2.35 billion sale to TSYS
  • in its acquisition of Trintech from Spectrum Equity
  • in its $900 million take-private acquisition of Forcepoint (formerly Websense) and its $1.9 billion sale to Raytheon
  • in its acquisitions, though the Vista Endeavor Fund, of Zapproved, Kazoo (formerly YouEarnedIt), ComplySci, TripleSeat Software, HighGround, RadarFirst, SecureLink, Dispatch Technologies and Fusion Risk Management
  • portfolio company ACTIVE Network in its acquisitions of JumpForward, Max Solutions and Sports TG and its $1.2 billion sale of its the communities and sports divisions to Global Payments
  • portfolio company EAB (formerly The Advisory Board) in its acquisitions of Cappex and YouVisit
  • portfolio company Omnitracs in its $450 million acquisition of SmartDrive and its acquisitions of Blue Dot Solutions, VisTracks and Vnomics
  • portfolio company PeopleAdmin in its acquisitions of Performance Matters and TeacherMatch and its combination with PowerSchool Group 
  • portfolio company Trintech in its acquisitions of Chesapeake System Solutions and Adra Software and its sale to Summit Partners