Sophie Daroff is a corporate associate in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
Experience
Representative Matters
Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its acquisition of Cornerstone Building Brands, Inc. (NYSE: CNR), the largest manufacturer of exterior building products in North America, for an enterprise value of approximately $5.8 billion.
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. and subsequent add-on acquisition.
Acquisitions of Full Circle Restoration and Construction Services, LLC, Advance Catastrophe Technologies, LLC and Target Solutions, LLC by Cotton Holdings (portfolio company).
Acquisition of Exadel, Inc., Sun’s first tech platform investment since formalizing focus on the technology vertical and subsequent add-on acquisitions of CPQi, Motion Software JSC and Codete Global Sp. Z.o.o.
Sale of Trulite Glass & Aluminum Solutions, the largest value-added glass fabricator and supplier of aluminum architectural products focused on small- and medium-sized jobs in North America.
Acquisition of Andersen Commercial Plumbing, LLC.
Acquisition of SalSon Logistics, Inc. by Total Transportation Services (portfolio company).
AE Industrial Partners:
Business combination of BigBear.ai (portfolio company), a leading provider of artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud-based big data analytics, and cyber engineering solutions, and GigCapital4, Inc., a Private-to-Public Equity (PPE)TM entity also known as special purpose acquisition company. The transaction values BigBear.ai at a $1.378 billion pro forma enterprise value.
Acquisition of ProModel Corporation by BigBear.ai (portfolio company).
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, Vado, Inc., e-J4, LLC, The Rowing Team, LLC (dba Blue Ocean Brain), and SafetySkills, 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.
Clerk & Government Experience
Legal Intern, Trial Defense Service, Capital Litigation TeamUnited States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps2019
Legal InternUnited States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, Misdemeanors Unit2017
Prior Experience
Summer Associate, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, 2018
Legal Intern, Boston Red Sox, 2018
Pro Bono
Represented client in her application for a T Visa as a victim of human trafficking.