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Mergers & Acquisitions

Oct. 26, 2012

Dealmakers

A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.


MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

Kirkland advises Spectrum Equity in Ancestry.com acquisition


A consortium of investors agreed to purchase genealogy website Ancestry.com this week for $1.6 billion with legal assistance from Kirkland & Ellis LLP.


Kirkland lawyers represented venture capital firm Spectrum Equity Investors LP, which joined lead investor Permira Advisers LLP in the purchase. Spectrum previously invested in the websit...

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