Jakob Dewispelaere

In recent years, Jakob has advised:

• Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. in its acquisition of Chelsea Football Club and related affiliates in a consortium co-led with Todd Boehly, Chairman and CEO of Eldridge.
• Invenergy in a US$3 billion equity investment from Blackstone Infrastructure Partners.
• Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. in a significant equity investment in Dodge Construction Network.
• Provation Software, a Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. portfolio company, in its sale to Fortive Corporation for US$1.425 billion.
• Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. in its proposed acquisition of Quest Software from Francisco Partners.
• Confluence Technologies, Inc. in its US$500 million acquisition of Investment Metrics, a major provider of investment data, performance, analytics, and research software solutions.
• nThrive, Inc., a leading healthcare revenue cycle management software-as-a-service platform backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P., in its US$1.74 billion acquisition of TransUnion Healthcare from TransUnion.
• Thoma Bravo in a strategic investment by Permira in Motus, a Thoma Bravo portfolio company.
• Newfold Digital on its acquisition of Yoast B.V., the leading search engine optimization plugin provider for WordPress.
• Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. in its proposed US$5.2 billion acquisition of Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc., a global leader in talent management software.
• Symplr in strategic investment by Charlesbank Capital Partners.
• Clearlake Capital in connection with its significant equity investment in RSA Security LLC, a global provider of mission critical cybersecurity software and governance risk and compliance management software.
• Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. in its acquisition of Precisely, a provider of data integrity software, together with TA Associates.
• Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. in its US$3 billion acquisition of Endurance International, a provider of cloud-based platform solutions.
• TowerBrook Capital Partners in its sale of Metallo, a metal recycler and refiner, to Aurubis.
• TowerBrook Capital Partners in its acquisition of CarTrawler, a provider of car rental and mobility solutions.
• Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. in its acquisition of DigiCert, a provider of digital certificates.
• Ivanti, a Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. portfolio company, in strategic investments from TA Associates and Charlesbank Capital Partners.
• Ivanti in its acquisition of Cherwell Software, a KKR portfolio company active in IT service management and enterprise service management solutions.
• Ivanti in its take-private acquisition of MobileIron, a provider of mobile-centric unified endpoint management solutions.
• Ivanti in its acquisition of Pulse Secure, a provider of secure access and mobile security solutions.
• Perforce Software, a Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. portfolio company, in a strategic investment from Francisco Partners.
• Siris Capital in its acquisition of Electronics for Imaging, a provider of digital printing technology.
• Archer Daniels Midland in its acquisition of PIL, a provider of probiotic supplements.