Sidley advised Exiger in connection with a majority investment by funds managed by global investment firm Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) and global software investor Insight Partners. The transaction will enable Exiger to continue investing in its product portfolio of AI solutions that are used across government, defense, and commercial markets. Exiger’s mission is to make the world a safer and more transparent place to succeed through its software and tech-enabled solutions. Carlyle is a global investment firm with US$382 billion of assets under management as of September 30, 2023. Insight Partners is a global software investor with over US$80 billion in regulatory assets under management as of June 30, 2023.
The Sidley team was led by M&A and Private Equity partners Christopher Rile, Grace Jamgochian, and Brien Wassner. The team also included: MK Han, Alison Malkowski, David Zhao, Kyle Fong, and Henry Ludwig (M&A and Private Equity); James Heyworth and Craig Francis Dukin (Litigation); Eric Wolf, Gregory Matisoff, and Ryan McLeod (Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation); Steven Rutkovsky and Shneur Wolvovsky (Global Finance); Christian Brause and Eric Grosshandler (Tax); Rachelle Soderstrom and Daphne Chen (Technology and Life Sciences Transactions); Vadim Brusser, Ken Daly, Miriam Carroll Silvestri, Iva Todorova, and Michael Weinberg (Antitrust and Competition); Sven De Knop, Howard Stanislawski, Justin Becker, and Alessandra Moroni (Global Arbitration, Trade and Advocacy); Peter McCorkell, Eric Hoffman, and Maeve Gillespie (Labor, Employment and Immigration); and Alan Raul and Sasha Hondagneu-Messner (Privacy and Cybersecurity).
