Cloud Software Group acquires Unicon, deviceTRUST and vast limits

Munich — Kirk­land & Ellis has advi­sed Cloud Soft­ware Group, a port­fo­lio company of Vista Equity Part­ners and Elliott Invest­ment Manage­ment, and its Citrix busi­ness unit on the acqui­si­ti­ons of Unicon GmbH (“Unicon”), device­TRUST GmbH (“device­TRUST”) and vast limits GmbH (“vast limits”). Unicon is the company behind eLux OS and Scout, a secure and light­weight opera­ting system and manage­ment plat­form for virtual desk­top endpoints. Unicon’s solu­ti­ons are used in over 65 count­ries world­wide on over 2.5 million endpoints. device­TRUST provi­des a plat­form for busi­nesses that enables users to work with their digi­tal workspace from any loca­tion, with any device and over any network, giving IT depart­ments all the infor­ma­tion and control they need to meet all secu­rity, compli­ance and regu­la­tory requi­re­ments. vast limits, deve­lo­per of uberAgent, deve­lops effi­ci­ent and easy-to-use enter­prise soft­ware for IT profes­sio­nals to create produc­tive and secure digi­tal work envi­ron­ments. The Cloud Soft­ware Group and its busi­ness units provide modern enter­pri­ses with mission-criti­­cal soft­ware, helping more than 100 million users around the world to evolve, compete and succeed by lever­aging data, auto­ma­tion, insights and colla­bo­ra­tion in private, public, mana­ged and inde­pen­dent cloud envi­ron­ments. These important acqui­si­ti­ons are now part of the Citrix Cloud Soft­ware Group busi­ness unit, which provi­des a secure app and desk­top appli­ca­tion plat­form that orga­niza­ti­ons of all sizes can use to enable secure and flexi­ble work.

Advi­sor Cloud Soft­ware Group: Kirk­land & Ellis, Munich

Dr. Chris­toph Jerger (photo © Kirk­land), Dr. Hendrik Braun (both lead), Attila Oldag, Dr. Anna Schwan­der; Asso­cia­tes: Dr. Maxi­mi­lian Licht, Dr. Florian Kalb­fleisch (all Corporate)

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