Tyler E. Neal

Associate Transactional

Chicago +1 312 862 2675

Tyler E. Neal

Practices

Overview

Tyler Neal is a corporate associate in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis. Her practice focuses on advising private equity firms and public and private companies on complex M&A and corporate transactions, including domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, corporate carve-out transactions, leveraged buyouts, "going-private" transactions, as well as general corporate governance matters.

Tyler has handled matters for numerous private equity sponsors including Thoma Bravo, Madison Dearborn, Partners AE Industrial Partners, among others, as well as many of their portfolio companies.

Acquisition by Thoma Bravo of Zipari Inc., a consumer experience healthcare technology company.

Acquisition by Thoma Bravo of AxiomSL, Inc., a provider of cloud-enabled risk management and regulatory solutions for banking, investment management, broker dealers and commodity trading institutions.

Pending merger of Stable Road Acquisition Corp. with Momentus Inc.

Acquisition by Thoma Bravo of Majesco (NASDAQ: MJCO), a provider of cloud insurance software solutions, in a transaction valued at $730 million.

Acquisition by Thoma Bravo of Sophos (LON: SOPH), a global provider of software and hardware security solutions, in a transaction valued at £3.1 billion.

Acquisition by Thoma Bravo of Instructure (NYSE: INST), a web-based educational technology company, in a transaction valued at $2.0 billion.

Acquisition by Bain Capital Private Equity its ins acquisition of Rocket Software, a global technology provider of enterprise software, in a transaction valued at $2.0 billion.

Acquisition by Thoma Bravo of Quorum Business Solutions, a provider of cloud-based oil and gas software, in a transaction valued at $740 million.

Simultaneous acquisitions by Thoma Bravo of Meridian Link and CRIF Lending Solutions to create a leading financial services platform.

Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable M. David Weisman, United States Magistrate Judge, Northern District of Illinois

Judicial ExternHonorable Sharon Johnson ColemanUnited States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

King & Spalding, Summer Associate, 2015

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Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2016Illinois

Education

  • University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolJ.D.2016

    Senior Research Editor, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law

    Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Certificate in Management, 2016

  • Cornell UniversityB.A., Government2011