Kevin R. Miller

Kevin’s notable representations have included the following:

Private Equity M&A

• Blackstone and TPG in the $18.3 billion take-private acquisition of Hologic
• Blackstone on the formation of an AI-native enterprise services firm in partnership with Anthropic, Hellman & Friedman and Goldman Sachs, followed by its acquisition of Fractional AI
• Thoma Bravo and its portfolio companies in connection with numerous transactions, including:
  • the $12.3 billion take-private acquisition of Dayforce, Inc.
  • the $10.55 billion acquisition of portions of Boeing’s Digital Aviation Solutions business
  • the acquisition of WWEX Group and combination with Auctane, creating ShipStation Global
  • the pending combination of HCSS with the Build & Construct segment of the Nemetschek Group
  • the $2 billion take-private acquisition of Olo Inc.
  • the $1.4 billion take-private acquisition of PROS Holdings, Inc.
  • the $859 million take-private acquisition of Secureworks by Sophos
  • the pending C$650 million take-private acquisition of Kneat
  • the investments in OPEXUS, Casepoint, and PCMI
  • add-on transactions for BlueMatrix, Bluesight, Coupa, EQS Group, PCMI and SMA Technologies
• Vista Equity Partners and its portfolio companies in connection with numerous transactions, including:
  • the $8.4 billion acquisition, alongside Blackstone, of Smartsheet Inc.
  • the pending $7.5 billion merger of Playlist and EGYM
  • the carveout sale of Finastra’s Treasury and Capital Markets business to Apax Partners
  • the strategic investment in StarRez, alongside Five Arrows, the alternative assets arm of Rothschild & Co.
  • the majority investment in Nexthink, valuing the company at approximately $3 billion
  • the investments in Portside, AKUVO, Amtech Software and Dentira
  • the sale of Jaspersoft by Cloud Software Group to HCLSoftware
• Harvest Partners and its portfolio companies in connection with numerous transactions, including:
  
  • the sale of a majority stake in MAI Capital Management to Carlyle, valuing MAI at more than $2.8 billion
  • the growth investment in Power Home Remodeling by Bain Capital, Sixth Street and Harvest Partners Structured Capital
• Sentinel Capital Partners and its portfolio company NSI Industries (NSI) in the $3 billion sale of NSI to Hubbell Incorporated
• Centerbridge Partners in its $2 billion take-private acquisition of MeridianLink
• Triton in its sale of a majority stake in Kelvion to Apollo
• The Vistria Group, alongside General Atlantic and Nautic Partners, in the acquisition of PANTHERx Rare from Centene Corporation*
• Sixth Street-backed Legends in its acquisition of ASM Global from AEG and Onex Partners*
• GTCR in its $1.33 billion investment in Tricentis
• Apollo-backed ABC Technologies in its £1.039 billion acquisition of TI Fluid Systems
• GI Partners in its $1.05 billion take-private acquisition of Atlas Technical Consultants*
• TSG Consumer Partners in its acquisitions of Radiance Holdings and Cadogan Tate, and its investment in The Wrench Group*
• Cinven in its sale of Nitel to Comcast Business
• Permira in its sale of BFY Brands to PepsiCo, Inc.*

Strategic and Public Company M&A

• Waters Corporation in the $39 billion combination with Becton, Dickinson and Company’s (BD) Biosciences & Diagnostics business
• Kellanova in its $35.9 billion sale to Mars, Inc.
• Nippon Steel, Japan’s largest steelmaker, in its historic $14.1 billion acquisition of U.S. Steel*
• Johnson & Johnson and its medical device and medtech businesses, DePuy Syntheses and J&J MedTech, in connection with multiple domestic and cross-border acquisitions*
• Atrium Health in its strategic combination with Advocate Aurora Health, creating the fifth largest nonprofit health system in the country*
• Jamf in its $2.2 billion sale to Francisco Partners
• Integral Ad Science in its $1.9 billion sale to Novacap
• LevelBlue in its acquisitions of Cybereason, Trustwave, Stroz Friedberg and Elysium Digital
• Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) in its $1.5 billion acquisition of Parata Systems from Frazier Healthcare Partners*
• Leidos Holdings in its $1 billion acquisition of L3Harris Technologies’ airport security business*
• Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc. in its $970 million acquisition of Agrihedge (Commodity & Ingredient Hedging) from Falfurrias Capital Partners
• Virgin Music Group, the global independent music division of Universal Music Group, in its acquisition of Downtown Music Holdings LLC 

*Prior to joining Kirkland

Ropes & Gray LLP

Kevin maintains an active pro bono practice focused on employment counseling for nonprofits and small businesses, as well as impact litigation. For example, on behalf of South Jersey AIDS Alliance (SJAA), Kevin led a team in challenging a government ordinance promulgated by the City of Atlantic City that would have prohibited SJAA’s operation of a harm reduction center — ultimately obtaining an injunction preventing the City’s ordinance from going into effect. These efforts were highlighted by numerous media outlets including Politico, Buzzfeed and the Philadelphia Inquirer.