Kirkland & Ellis with investor consortium on EA acquisition
Kirkland & Ellis advised an investor consortium including PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners in a definitive agreement to acquire Electronic Arts, a Nasdaq-listed specialist in digital interactive entertainment. The operation entailed an all-cash transaction placing EA at an enterprise value of approximately $55 billion.
Moreover, Kirkland & Ellis is acting as lead legal counsel to PIF in connection with the deal.
The Kirkland & Ellis team
The Kirkland lineup on the matter included corporate lawyers Maggie Flores, Sarkis Jebejian, Jonathan Davis, Lee Blum and Aseda Ghartey-Tagoe, along with Kamran Bajwa (pictured left) and Noor M. Al-Fawzan (pictured right) from Riyadh; debt finance lawyers Adam Shapiro and Conor O’Muiri; capital markets lawyers Josh Korff and Zoey Hitzert; executive compensation lawyers Scott Price and Matt Wood; international trade & national security lawyers Ivan Schlager and Erika Krum; tax lawyers Dean Shulman and Sehj Vather; and antitrust & competition lawyer Stephen A. Mohr.
