Jacqueline Clover

Kirkland & Ellis International LLP

Practices

Overview

Jacqueline Clover is a partner in Kirkland’s Technology & IP Transactions Practice Group, based in the Firm’s London office. She advises private equity sponsors and companies on the technology, intellectual property, data and artificial intelligence aspects of complex, high-value corporate and commercial transactions.

Jacqueline’s practice spans the full deal lifecycle, including buyouts, carve-outs and business separations, add-ons, exits, joint ventures, strategic alliances and restructuring transactions. She is highly experienced in structuring and negotiating agreements that support transaction execution as well as commercial agreements, including long-term and transitional services agreements, intellectual property agreements and licences, data sharing and transfer agreements, collaboration and development agreements and manufacturing and supply agreements.

Jacqueline works across a wide range of industries, including software and digital infrastructure, life sciences, consumer products and services, e-commerce, advertising, media and entertainment, telecommunications, financial services and insurance.

In addition to her transactional work, Jacqueline advises on data protection compliance and data breach incident response and emerging regulatory frameworks around artificial intelligence.
Before joining Kirkland, Jacqueline trained and practised as a life sciences lawyer at another U.S. law firm. She also gained in-house experience on secondment to the legal team of a major multinational technology company.

Experience

TPG on the acquisition of Aareon for €3.9 billion

TPG on its investment in Vinted, Europe’s leading second-hand C2C marketplace focused on fashion

CD&R and Permira Consortium on the €2.2 billion acquisition of majority stake in Exclusive Networks

Vista Equity Partners on its acquisition, alongside Evergreen Coast Capital Corporation, of Citrix Systems, Inc. for approximately $16.5 billion

Vista Equity Partners on its $4.6 billion acquisition of KnowBe4Inc. an industry leading cyber security awareness and training firm

KnowBe4 on the acquisition of Egress

Vista Equity Partners on its €2.6 billion acquisition of Duck Creek Technologies, a software solutions provider defining the future of property and casualty (P&C) insurance

Vista Equity Partners, on its strategic growth investment in Gatekeeper, a leading vendor and contract lifecycle management platform

Vista and BC Partners-backed EAB on the acquisition of Forage

BC Partners on its investment in Advanced, a provider of business software solutions

Advanced on its acquisition of legal technology business Tikit Limited from BT

BC Partners and Advanced on the sale of its Application Modernization Capabilities to IBM

Strategic Value Partners, LLC and Blantyre Capital on its acquisition of OQ Chemicals

Apax on the acquisitions of OCS and Finwave

Vetnique Labs on the acquisition of Lintbells

KKR on the €22 billion acquisition of Telecom Italia

AXA IM Alts on the sale of Data4, a European specialist in financing, designing, building and operating data centres, to Brookfield Infrastructure

Blue Wolf Capital Partners LLC on the acquisition of seven CDMO sites from Recipharm

Elda River Capital Partners to complete the spinout of Magnetar Capital’s energy and infrastructure business

Funds managed by AGG Capital Management on the acquisition of a majority stake in AFE

Everise and Brookfield in connection with an investment into Everise by Warburg Pincus (valued at $1 billion)

Francisco Partners on its acquisition of The Weather Company from IBM

Warburg Pincus on the sale of its remaining stake in Reiss to NEXT plc

Beacon Rail on its acquisition of Mitsui Rail Capital Europe

Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings on its sale to JCDecaux

Davies Group, a portfolio company of BC Partners, on the acquisition of global consulting firm Sionic Group from Livingbridge and management

Smarsh Inc. on the $375 million acquisition of Digital Safe from Micro Focus

Tokio Marine HCC on its agreement to acquire GCube

The bidding consortium led by Advent, Cinven and the RAG-Stiftung on the acquisition of the elevator division of thyssenkrupp AG

Bristol-Myers Squibb on its $13.4 billion divesture of Celgene’s OTEZLA® program to Amgen

Covington & Burling LLP

Associate, 2014–2019
Trainee Solicitor, 2012–2014

Thought Leadership

Publications

Co-author, “The Metaverse IRL – EUIPO Refuses to Register ‘METAVERSE FOOD’ and ‘METAVERSE DRINK’ as EU Trade Marks for Real-World Goods”, Entertainment Law Review, 2023

Co-author, “Lloyd v Google: Supreme Court Ruling Sheds Light on UK Data Protection “Class Actions”,” Computer and Telecommunications Law Review, 2022

Co-author, “Scott v LGBT Foundation Ltd: Do Phone Conversations Amount to "Processing" of Personal Data?,” Entertainment Law Review, Volume 31, Issue 6, 2020

Co-author, “Is Your Video Surveillance Legitimate under EU Data Protection Rules?,” Computer and Telecommunications Law Review, Volume 26, Issue 6, 2020

Co-author, “Schrems Strikes Again: EU–US Privacy Shield Suffers Same Fate as Its Predecessor,” Computer and Telecommunications Law Review, Volume 26, Issue 6, 2020

“Schrems Strikes Again: EU-US Privacy Shield Suffers Same Fate as its Predecessor,” Kirkland & Ellis Alert, 2020

Co-Author, “Google LLC v CNIL—CJEU Rules on the Territorial Scope of the 'Right to be Forgotten',” Entertainment Law Review, Issue 2, 2020

Seminars

“EU and UK Data Protection”, Sun Capital Advisors Meeting, June 2024

“EU Cyber Regulations: A Europe Fit for the Digital Age”, Sun Capital Advisors Meeting, June 2024

“The GDPR four years on – from here to where?”, Sun Capital Advisors Meeting, June 2022

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

2014, Admitted to practice as a Solicitor of England and Wales
2012, New York

Languages

English
Mandarin

Education

BPP Law SchoolLegal Practice Course2012
University of ChicagoLL.M.2010
University of CambridgeB.A., LawHons2006