Sophie J. Daroff

Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures

• Pangiam, an AE Industrial Partners portfolio company, in its acquisition of veriScan, an integrated biometric facial recognition system for airports and airlines.
• Sun Capital Partners in its acquisition of Exadel, Inc., Sun’s first tech platform investment since formalizing focus on the technology vertical.
• Health & Safety Institute, a Waud Capital Partners portfolio company, in its acquisition of e-J4, LLC.
• Imprivata, Inc., a Thoma Bravo portfolio company, in its acquisition of FairWarning Technologies, LLC.
• Parthenon Capital in its sale of abeo Management Corporation.
• Belcan, an AE Industrial Partners portfolio company, in its acquisition of Avista, Incorporated.
• AE Industrial Partners in its simultaneous acquisition and combination of Linkware, LLC, a leading provider of custom software solutions and consulting services to federal government organizations, and Pre, LLC (Pangiam), a security and travel consulting services provider.
• Health & Safety Institute, a Waud Capital Partners portfolio company, in its acquisitions of SOS Intl, LLC and Vado, Inc.
• Thoma Bravo in its sale of SIGOS LLC.
• AE Industrial Partners in its acquisition of AIM MRO Holdings, Inc.
• Rocket Software Inc., a Bain Capital Private Equity portfolio company, in its acquisition of OpenConnect Systems Incorporated.

Restructuring

• Frontier Communications Corporation and its 103 debtor subsidiaries in their prearranged Chapter 11 restructuring in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. With over $17.5 billion in outstanding funded debt, Frontier’s Chapter 11 cases were among the largest filed in 2020.

Summer Associate, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, 2018

Legal Intern, Boston Red Sox, 2018

Represented client in her application for a T Visa as a victim of human trafficking.

Represented client in her petition for guardianship of her adult daughter with autism spectrum disorder and an intellectual disability.