Paul Hastings LLP advised Blue Owl Credit Advisors LP, Blackstone Alternative Credit Advisors LLC, and Ares Capital Management LLC in Permira’s $6.9 billion all-cash acquisition of website design platform Squarespace, Inc. (NYSE: SQSP). With the completion of the transaction, Squarespace will become a privately held company. This is the latest multi-billion dollar tech deal the Paul Hastings finance practice has led this year, having recently advised Goldman Sachs in Thoma Bravo’s $5.3 billion acquisition of Darktrace.

Global Finance co-chairs Jennifer Yount and John Cobb led the Paul Hastings team, together with a large interdisciplinary team, which also included partners Michele Cohen, Jason Busch, Stephen Gruendel, Jesse Kirsch, Jane Song, Joe Opich, Molly Swartz, and Scott Flicker; Of Counsel Stacy Hopkins, Marina Begun, John Gasparini, and Jennifer Riddle; and associates Stephen Rettger, Billal Khan, Andrew Barondess, Sean McKenna, Emma O’Hanlon, Emmanuel Davis, April White, Lena Son, Jonathan Korn, Ryan Poitras, Alexandra Daniels, and Kimia Favagehi.

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