Abtin Jalali is a partner in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  He is a member of Gibson Dunn’s Private Equity and Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Groups.

Mr. Jalali has extensive experience representing private equity firms and their portfolio companies in all aspects of their businesses, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, growth equity investments, minority investments and general corporate matters.

Mr. Jalali’s representative private equity clients include Vista Equity Partners, Vector Capital, Serent Capital, True Wind Capital, Tower Arch Capital, HGGC, FTV Capital and Spectrum Equity.  His representative transactions include those listed below.

Vista Equity Partners

• Acquisitions of AltaReturn and Black Mountain Systems and their combination to form Allvue Systems
• Acquisition of EagleView Technologies; the add-on acquisitions of OmniEarth and Spookfish; and the recapitalization of EagleView Technologies with Clearlake Capital
• Acquisition of Integral Ad Science and the add-on acquisition of ADmantX
• Acquisition of STATS; the add-on acquisitions of Automated Insights and Bloomberg Sports; and the combination of STATS and Perform to form STATS Perform
• Combination of Vista’s Superion, Bain Capital’s Tritech Software Systems and Aptean’s public-sector business to form CentralSquare Technologies
• Investment in Upside
• Sale of Marketo to Adobe for $4.75 billion

Vector Capital

• Acquisitions of Freedom Scientific and Optelec and their combination to form Vispero; and the add-on acquisitions of Ai Squared, Enhanced Vision Systems, Interactive Accessibility and The Paciello Group
• Acquisition of Rocket Fuel for $145 million
• Acquisition of Sizmek for $122 million
• Sale of Triton Digital to E.W. Scripps for $150 million
• Sale of Tidel to Graham Partners

Serent Capital

• Acquisition of Apex HCM
• Acquisition of ArbiterSports
• Acquisition of Avionté
• Acquisition of BirchStreet Systems
• Acquisition of CallRevu
• Acquisition of Compeat and the add-on acquisition of Ctuit
• Acquisition of Digital Architecture
• Acquisition of FranConnect
• Acquisition of Pondera Solutions
• Acquisition of TalentWave
• Acquisition of USA Testprep
• Sale of Optimal Blue to GTCR

True Wind Capital

• Acquisition of ARI Network Services for $140 million and the recapitalization of ARI Network Services with TA Associates
• Acquisition of Dealer Spike
• Acquisition of The Switch and the add-on acquisition of Pacific Television Center

Tower Arch Capital

• Recapitalization of OSM Worldwide
• Sale of Softvision to Cognizant Technology Solutions
• Sale of Enertech to ONCAP

HGGC

• Acquisition of AutoAlert and the add-on acquisition of MotoFuze
• Acquisition of Dealer-FX
• Sale of MaMa Rosa’s to Schwan’s Company

FTV Capital

• Investment in EBANX of $30 million
• Investment in Enfusion Systems
• Investment in ID.me of $19 million
• Investment in InvestCloud of $45 million
• Investment in RapidRatings of $30 million
• Investment in StoneEagle Services / VPay of $76 million

Spectrum Equity

• Investment in Bitly of $63 million
• Investment in B-Stock of $65 million
• Investment in ExamSoft
• Investment in GoodRx
• Investment in Litmus Software of $49 million

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Mr. Jalali was a partner of Kirkland & Ellis and his representative transactions include those he led there.

Mr. Jalali received his Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.  He received his Master of Business of Administration and his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business.  Mr. Jalali is a member of the California Bar.