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Paul Hastings Advises Accelerant on $4 Billion-Plus Sale to Thoma Bravo

August 13, 2026

Paul Hastings LLP advised Accelerant, a leading data-driven risk exchange platform in the specialty insurance marketplace, in its sale to Thoma Bravo in an all-cash transaction with an enterprise value of more than $4 billion.

M&A global co-chair Eric Schiele and Securities & Capital Markets global co-chair Colin Diamond led the Paul Hastings team, which also included M&A partners Andrew Goodman, Dmitriy Molchanov and Kirk Lipsey and associates Maggie Chou, Noah Light, Tiffany Monzon, Ian Chang and Shriya Bollampally; Insurance Regulatory partner Sanjiv Tata; Employee Benefits partners Sasha Belinkie and Dan Stellenberg and associates Eden Lichaw and Steph Lao; Antitrust partners Sally Evans, Salome Cisnal de Ugarte, Josh Soven and Gail Levine and associate Ankita Gulati; Finance partner Tracey Chenoweth and of counsel Erik Zakarin; Tax partners Andrew Davis and Jenny Doak; and Technology Transactions co-chair Sarah Gagan.  

More details can be found here.

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