Kirkland Advises Bain Capital Tech Opportunities on Investments in finova and MSO

Kirkland & Ellis is advising Bain Capital Tech Opportunities, a leading global software investor, on its majority investment in finova, a leading provider of mortgage and savings origination and servicing software in the UK, and its acquisition of MSO, the UK mortgage sales and originations software business of Iress (ASX: IRE). By bringing together these two investments, Bain Capital expects to offer a fuller set of products to current and potential customers, while continuing to invest in both platforms.

The Kirkland team is led by corporate partners Jacob Traff, Victoria Legg and Adrian Maguire and includes corporate associates Charles Hébert, Rebecca Pearce, James Whybrow, Joe Timmins and Oliver Small; technology & IP transactions partner Jenny Wilson and associates Calum Parfitt, Stephen Coudounaris and Colin Russell; antitrust & competition partner Athina Van Melkebeke and associates Samantha Jones and James Donald; tax partners Peter Abbott and Alan Walker and associate Cosmos Fung; ESG & impact associate Lucia Saborio; and debt finance partners Chris Shield and Sam Sherwood and includes associates Ben Egan and Adrian Kilercioglu.