Sally Evans

While at Kirkland, Sally's representative matters have included: 

• Madison Dearborn — acquisition of NextGen.
• Valeas — acquisition of a majority stake in Suntera Global.
• Thoma Bravo — acquisition of $10.55 billion of digital aviation assets from Boeing.
• Bain — minority investment in Greenphire and Suvoda.
• HarbourVest — investment in Gatekeeper.
• Macquarie Asset Management — sale of Macquarie Rotorcraft Limited to Sumitomo Mitsui Finance & Leasing and LCI Investment.
• Blackstone Credit & Insurance — investment in ITE Management.
• BC Partners — acquisition of a majority stake in PetLab Co.
• Thoma Bravo-backed BlueMatrix — acquisition of Street Context.
• BC Partners- and Apollo-led consortium — acquisition of GFL Environmental’s Environmental Services business.
• GIC — investment in Synthon.
• Triton — acquisition of the security and communications technology product business from Bosch.
• Apheon —  close of a new continuation fund for TMC and Haudecoeur.
• Thoma Bravo — sale of a significant minority stake in Qlik.
• Sumeru Equity Partners — $330 million investment in JobNimbus.
• Kingswood — acquisition of Branding Iron Holdings.
• WHP Global — joint acquisition of rag & bone.
• Transom Capital Group and Angeleno Group — sale of Locana.
• Financial creditors of Celsa Group — first Spanish restructuring plan.
• Transom Capital Group — sale of Mackie to RØDE.
• Olympus — sale of AmSpec.
• Ares Management — acquisition of T.A. Systems.
• Instructure Holdings — acquisition of Parchment.
• Thoma Bravo and Exostar — sale of Exostar.
• Hipgnosis Songs Capital — proposed acquisition of 29 music catalogs from SONG.
• Thoma Bravo and its portfolio company J.D. Power — investment in AutoVista.
• Oaktree Capital Management and its portfolio company Boardriders — sale to Authentic Brands.
• Energy Capital Partners — combination with Bridgepoint.
• BC Partners — sale of IMA Group to BDT & MSD Partners.
• GIC — long-term minority investment in Messer Group.
• Thoma Bravo — acquisition of Anaplan for $10 billion.
• Noble Corporation — combination with Maersk Drilling, subject to a Phase I remedy agreed with the UK Competition and Markets Authority.
• Madison Dearborn Partners and Thoma Bravo — sale of Syntellis Performance Solutions.
• Thoma Bravo — the sale of Imperva to Thales for $3.6 billion.
• BC Partners — sale of a minority stake in PetSmart to asset manager Apollo.
• Adenza — acquisition by NASDAQ for $10.5 billion.
• JBT Corporation — sale of its AeroTech business.
• A consortium led by EQT — £4.5 billion recommended cash offer for Dechra Pharmaceuticals.
• Triton Partners — creation and close of Triton IV Continuation Fund.
• Boardriders — purchase offer from Authentic Brands.
• Stone Point — strategic investment in Lincoln Property Company.
• Thoma Bravo — acquisition of Magnet Forensics Inc.
• Thoma Bravo — acquisition of Coupa Software.
• Thoma Bravo — acquisition of CHAS.
• Olympus Partners — agreement to sell Liquibox to Sealed Air Corporation.
• Thoma Bravo — acquisition of UserTesting.
• Redwire, a portfolio company of AE Industrial Partners — acquisition of QinetiQ Space.
• Thoma Bravo and Frontline Education — $3.725 billion sale to Roper Technologies.
• Investindustrial — a series of U.S. transactions.
• Triton Partners — sale of Ewellix.
• EQT — the £650 million acquisition of SPT Labtech. 
• Thoma Bravo — a strategic growth investment in Circle Cardiovascular Imaging, the global leader in cardiovascular imaging solutions. 
• EQT — the €6.8 billion acquisition of Baring Private Equity Asia, a leading private markets investment firm. 
• Summit Partners — the sale of Viroclinics-DDL, a virology contract research organisation, to Cerba Healthcare. 
• Alpine Investors and its portfolio company Alpine Software Group — the acquisition of Sendible, a leading UK social media management and data analytics provider.
• Inflexion — a re-investment in the British Engineering Services Group, a specialist in engineering testing, inspection and consultancy services.
• HPS Investment Partners — the investment into the UK wealth management division of Canaccord Genuity Group Inc.
• Thoma Bravo — the $10.2 billion acquisition of RealPage.
• Thoma Bravo — the $11 billion sale of Ellie Mae to Intercontinental Exchange.
• Intelsat — the $400 million acquisition of the Commercial Aviation Business of Gogo.
• EQT Credit — the investment in and the restructuring and recapitalization of ACPS Automotive.
• EQT — the sale of its Credit business to Bridgepoint.
• Tokio Marine HCC — the acquisition GCube, a managing general agent in the insurance sector. 
• BC Partners — the acquisition of Keesing, a leading European braintainment business, from Ergon Capital and Mediahuis. 
• EQT — the acquisition of IFS AB, a leading software provider, alongside TA Associates.
• Hospital Topco (majority owned by Centerbridge and KKR) — the UK merger control aspects of the c.£1.8 billion disposal of BMI Healthcare and the GHG Group.
• Triton Partners — the acquisition of the tour operating activities of Corendon and combination with Sunweb.
• Ingersoll-Rand plc — the $1.45 billion acquisition of Precision Flow Systems.
• EQT — the acquisition of Dellner Couplers, a global market leader in couplers, gangways and adjacent products for passenger rail rolling stock.
• EQT — the acquisition of Acumatica, a US-based and fast-growing software as a service company, which provides customers with true cloud Enterprise Resource Planning solutions.
• EQT— led consortium — CHF 10.2 billion acquisition of Nestlé Skin Health, a leading global skincare company.
• EQT — the sale of a minority stake in IVC Group to Nestlé SA.
• EQT — the combination of Independent Vetcare (IVC) and Evidensia to create Europe’s largest veterinary care group.
• BC Partners — the investment in Advanced, a provider of business software solutions.
• Oaktree Capital — the acquisition by their Boardriders’ portfolio company of Billabong. The transaction involved the combination of Boardriders’ well known consumer brands — Quiksilver, Roxy and DC Shoes — with Billabong, creating the world’s largest action sports company.
• Travelport Worldwide — the $4.4 billion sale to Siris Capital and Elliott Management.
• CapVest (and its portfolio company Valeo Foods) — the acquisition of Tangerine Confectionery, the leading supplier of private label sugar confectionery in the UK.
• Bain Capital — the acquisition of DSM Sinochem Pharmaceuticals, a producer of sustainable antibiotics, next-generation statins and anti-fungals.
• Global Logistics Properties (GLP) — the acquisition of European logistics business IDI Gazeley from Brookfield Asset Management for approximately US$2.8 billion. Gazeley is one of the leading owners and operators of logistics facilities in Europe with a portfolio of over 3 million sq metres in the UK, Germany, France and the Netherlands.
• Tronox Limited — the acquisition of Cristal’s global titanium dioxide business in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at approximately $2.2 billion.
• Tronox Limited — the $1.325 billion sale of its Alkali Chemicals business to Genesis Energy, L.P.
• The Carlyle Group, CITIC Limited and CITIC Capital Holdings — the US$2.08 billion acquisition of the majority stake in a newly-formed company that will act as the master franchisee for McDonald’s in China and Hong Kong. The company will become the largest McDonald’s franchisee outside the United States.
• Solera, a digital technology group part owned by Vista Equity Partners — the £340m acquisition of Autodata, a UK provider of digital solutions to the automotive industry.
• CapVest/IBA Molecular — the carve-out acquisition from Mallinckrodt Plc of its global nuclear imaging radiopharmaceuticals division.
• Sithe Global Power — the $1.2 billion sale of interests in two coal-fired power plants in The Philippines to Aboitiz Power Corp.
• Summit Partners — the sale of Independent Vetcare Limited, the third largest vet services provider in the UK, to EQT.
• Crestview Partners — the acquisition of Accuride Corporation.
• Bain Capital Private Equity — the acquisition of Daymon Worldwide Inc.
• Ontario Teachers Pension Plan and Burton's Biscuits Company — the sale of the Cadbury business to Mondelez.
• Private equity sponsor — several acquisitions and sales in the software sector.
• Automotive parts manufacturer — investigation by the European Commission into possible breaches of Article 101 TFEU.
• Shamrock Capital Advisors in its co-investment in BTI Studios, a leading localization company providing dubbing and subtitling services in over 80 languages, with BTI owner Altor Equity Funds.
• Alimak Group — a recently listed Triton portfolio company which supplies elevators and platforms to the industrial sector, on its AUD 120 million acquisition of the Façade Access Group, a market leader in building maintenance units. This was Alimak’s first acquisition post-listing.

Prior to joining Kirkland, Sally’s representative matters included:

• Greene King plc — the CMA clearance for $1.2 billion takeover of pub chain Spirit plc.

• Bridgepoint — the CMA review of bolt-on acquisitions of UK dental chains.

• PSP — the $2 billion acquisition of Hochtief Airports.

• Kier Group plc — the £221 million public takeover of construction business May Gurney.

• Dentsu Inc. — the $5 billion global takeover of advertising firm Aegis plc.

• Anglo American/Lafarge joint venture — the phase II UK review requiring extensive divestments in cement, ready mixed concrete and aggregates.

• Mining and ports sector joint ventures — merger control and antitrust compliance advice.

• Acted for an investment bank in the European Commission competition investigation into credit default swaps.

• European Commission cartel investigation in the freight forwarding sector.

• In-house competition experience with an oil and gas major and in the UK retail banking sector.

Linklaters LLP, London

• Managing Associate, 2010–2016

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP — London and Brussels

• Associate, 2008–2010

• Trainee Solicitor, 2006–2008