International legal practice Osborne Clarke has advised Smoothwall, a Tenzing Private Equity portfolio company, on the acquisition of Future Digital, a digital safeguarding business.

A market-leading provider of dynamic web filtering technology for the education and public sectors, Smoothwall has an established UK presence and a footprint in the US, covering over 10,000 schools worldwide.

The acquisition of Future Digital, a company that provides real time, cloud-based, monitoring solutions with visual and intuitive dashboards, adds a highly complementary offering to Smoothwall’s existing portfolio, cementing Smoothwall’s market-leading position in the UK education sector.

Osborne Clarke has advised Tenzing on a number of transactions since the start of 2018, including its investments in Converge TS, a specialist provider of managed and hosted IT services to the UK legal sector and CitNOW, a specialist provider of video applications.

Osborne Clarke’s private equity team is a leading practice in the UK and across Europe ranking ranked in both Chambers and Legal 500. The team works closely with the firm's international sector specialists and services line experts exploiting opportunities and doing deals in tech, media and comms, financial services/fintech, energy, real estate and retail/consumer.

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