Katherine Schloss Ackerman

Partner Mergers & Acquisitions Private Equity

Bay Area – San Francisco +1 415 439 1357

Katherine Schloss Ackerman

Overview

Katherine Schloss Ackerman is a corporate partner in the Bay Area office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Her practice is principally focused on the representation of private equity funds and their portfolio companies.

Vista Equity Partners, in numerous transactions, including:

  • its sale of $4.6 billion sale of Apptio to IBM
  • its investment in Resilinc
  • its $3.5 billion acquisition of Pluralsight, Inc.
  • the acquisition of SmartDrive by its portfolio Company, Omnitracs
  • its $1.5 billion investment in Jio Platforms
  • its acquisition with Elliott Investment Management of Citrix
  • its sale of Zego
  • its acquisition of ClassPass by MindBody
  • the initial public offering of Powerschool
  • its recapitalization of Solera
  • investment in Tribute Technology
  • its acquisition of Avalara

Golden Gate Capital and its portfolio company, LiveVox, in LiveVox's de-SPAC merger with Crescent Acquisition Corp

Orchard Holdings Group in its sale of Camargo Pharmaceutical Services

Delphi Technologies PLC in its sale to BorgWarner

InternHonorable Anthony SciricaUnited States Court of Appeals for the Third CircuitSummer 2015

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, California, 2017–2020

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Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2017California

Languages

  • English
  • German

Education

  • University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolJ.D.magna cum laude2017

    Order of the Coif

    Mark E. Lefever Prize

    Award for Outstanding Pro Bono Work

    Comments Editor, Volume 165, University of Pennsylvania Law Review

    Director, School Discipline Advocacy Service

  • Princeton UniversityA.B., Historymagna cum laude2013