Ken Allen

Greater Boston Area United States

Managing Director

Finance / Banking / Insurance

Managing Director in Blackstone's Technology Advisory practice. Lead efforts in Digital Media, Internet, Software, and Cloud Computing. Broad experience in buy- and sell-side mergers and acquisitions, private placements, leveraged recapitalizations, leveraged buyouts, and equity/debt financings. Representative Transactions Include: Advisory - Accenture in its acquisition of Acquity Group Limited ($316mm) - SmartOps in its sale to SAP (undisclosed) - Orange Soda in its sale to Deluxe ($28mm) - Compellent in its sale to Dell ($960mm) - Publicis in its acquisition of Razorfish from Microsoft ($530mm) - Xerox in its acquisition of ACS ($8.3bn) - Sapient in its acquisitions of iThink, The...