Sophie J. Daroff

Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures

• An affiliate of Cascade Investment, L.L.C. in its acquisition of a controlling interest in Four Seasons Hotel and Resorts for $2.21 billion.
• Sun Capital Partners:
  
  • Acquisition of LoanLogics, Inc.
  • Acquisition of Full Circle Restoration and Construction Services, LLC. by Cotton Holdings (portfolio company).
  • Acquisition of Exadel, Inc., Sun’s first tech platform investment since formalizing focus on the technology vertical.
• AE Industrial Partners:
  
  • Acquisition of AIM MRO Holdings, Inc.
  • 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.
  • Acquisition of veriScan, an integrated biometric facial recognition system for airports and airlines by Pangiam (portfolio company).
  • Acquisition of Avista, Incorporated by Belcan (portfolio company).
• One Equity Partners in its sale of PS Logistics, the nation’s largest flatbed transportation and full-service logistics provider in the United States. 
• Waud Capital Partners:
  
  • Acquisitions of SOS Intl, LLC and Vado, Inc. by Health & Safety Institute (portfolio company).
  • Acquisition of e-J4, LLC by Health & Safety Institute (portfolio company).
  • Acquisition of TeamSnap.
• Thoma Bravo:
  
  • Acquisition of FairWarning Technologies, LLC by Imprivata, Inc. (portfolio company).
  • Sale of SIGOS LLC.
• Parthenon Capital in its sale of abeo Management Corporation.
• Bain Capital in its acquisition of OpenConnect Systems Incorporated by Rocket Software Inc. (portfolio company).

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.