Cordelia Mikita
Associate Technology & IP Transactions
Overview
Cordelia Mikita is a technology & IP transactions associate in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Her practice focuses on complex transactions involving technology and intellectual property, including carve-outs, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and venture capital and private equity investments. Cordelia also regularly advises clients on data privacy compliance matters. Cordelia has experience advising clients in a broad range of industries, including software, media and entertainment, cosmetics, health and wellness, e-commerce, manufacturing and financial technology.
Experience
Representative Matters
Consumer Products, Services & Brands
- A global investment platform, in collaboration with a leading real estate developer, in its acquisition of a renowned brand for expansion into hotels and lifestyle sectors, securing rights from a retail company and a media-focused Private equity firm, and entering into strategic agreements, including a celebrity-endorsed sales deal and a franchising license agreement, with an institutional investor as a key negotiator
- Vestar Capital Partners in its investment in Tech24, a provider of commercial food service equipment repair and maintenance services
- WHP Global on the joint acquisition of New York-based fashion brand rag & bone
Energy, Industrials & Infrastructure
- Bain Capital Private Equity in the sale of a stake in US LBM, a provider of building materials, to Platinum Equity
- Lone Star in its acquisition of Titan Acquisition Holdings, a provider of ship repair services and marine and heavy complex fabrication, from Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) and Stellex Capital Management
- TA Associates and True Wind Capital-backed e-Emphasys Technologies in its acquisition of CDK Global Heavy Equipment from CDK Global
Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Bansk Group-backed Arcadia Consumer Healthcare in its $397 million acquisition of Avrio Health, a provider of consumer health products, from Purdue Pharma
- Brookfield Special Investments in its $400 million investment in Sono Bello, a provider of laser liposuction and body contouring
Software & Services
- Thoma Bravo, alongside Sunstone Partners, in its $1.3 billion acquisition of UserTesting (NYSE: USER), a provider of video-based human insight
- Thoma Bravo in its CAD $1.8 billion acquisition of Magnet Forensics (TSX: MAGT), a developer of digital investigation solutions for enterprises and public safety organizations
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2023New York
Education
- University of Pennsylvania Carey Law SchoolJ.D.2022
Journal of Law and Innovation
Nonprofit Board Fellow, Wharton McNulty Leadership Program
Co-President, Penn Law International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP)
- University of PennsylvaniaB.A., History of Artsumma cum laude2018Dean's List
News &
Insights
- Press Release Kirkland Represents Cloud Software Group on Sale of ShareFile to Progress
- Press Release Kirkland Represents Värde Partners-Backed Trimont on Definitive Agreement to Acquire Wells Fargo’s Non-Agency Third-Party Commercial Mortgage Servicing Business
- Award M&A Deals of the Year 2023
- Press Release Kirkland Counsels H.I.G. Capital on Definitive Agreement to Acquire Alight’s Payroll and Professional Services Business
- Press Release Kirkland Advises Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners on its Majority Investment in Crowley Wind Joint Venture