Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

06/24/2022 | Press release | Archived content

Permira Leads Investor Group to Acquire Zendesk

Fried Frank acted as counsel to a consortium of investors that included Permira and Hellman & Friedman, in the US$10.2 billion all-cash take private of Zendesk. Zendesk provides software-as-a-service products related to customer support, sales and other customer communications. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2022.

The Fried Frank team was led by corporate partners Amber Banks (Meek) and Brian T. Mangino, and included corporate partners Joshua T. Coleman, Andrea Gede-Lange, Michael T. Gershberg and Darren A. Littlejohn; antitrust and competition partners Nathaniel L. Asker and Tobias Caspary; executive compensation & ERISA partner Jason R. Ertel; intellectual property and technology partner Amir R. Ghavi; litigation partners Michael J. Anstett and Joshua D. Roth; tax partners Shane Hoffmann and Alan S. Kaden; corporate real estate special counsel Melissa A. Meyrowitz; data strategy, security & privacy special counsel Michael A. Kleinman; antitrust and competition special counsel Neda Moussavi; corporate associates Elliott P. Barron, Gregory Bernstein, Justin P. Charles, Andrew Frank, Nathan Jablow, Katelyn James, Alex Kwon, Thomas C. Katsiotis, Michelle Lotfalla, P. Ryan Messier, Jennifer Michael, Brianna N. Schacter, Yimeng Shen, Charles Stern, Christine Walsh and Alanna Wolff.?