Jacob S. Reichman
Overview
Jacob Reichman is a corporate partner in the Bay Area office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. His practice focuses on advising private equity funds and their portfolio companies across a wide range of industries on complex mergers and acquisitions transactions, including leveraged buyouts, take-privates, divestitures, minority investments and carve-outs.
Jacob has handled matters on behalf of clients such as Accel-KKR, Alpine Investors, Francisco Partners, Gryphon Investors and Kingswood Capital Management, as well as their portfolio companies.
Experience
Representative Matters
Accel-KKR and its portfolio companies in various matters, including the following completed transactions:
- ECRI’s spinout of its Healthcare Spend Management and Recall Management solutions business as Staritas, an independent, Accel-KKR-backed company pioneering healthcare supply chain intelligence
- acquisition of Arbiter, a leading provider of K-12 athletic and school operations management software
Alpine Investors and its portfolio companies in various matters, including the following completed transactions:
- $3.4 billion single-asset continuation fund transaction to continue its partnership with Apex Service Partners, a nationwide leader in residential HVAC, plumbing and electrical services, in the largest-announced continuation fund transaction of 2023
Francisco Partners and its portfolio companies in various matters, including the following completed transactions:
- VitalSource’s acquisition of RedShelf, a Chicago-based course materials distributor serving hundreds of U.S. higher education institutions
- sale of QGenda, a leading provider of healthcare workforce management software, to Hearst Health
- strategic growth investment in Accela, a provider of cloud solutions trusted by governments across the globe
- acquisition of Sumo Logic (Nasdaq: SUMO), a SaaS analytics platform enabling reliable and secure cloud-native applications, for $1.7 billion
- acquisition of BARBRI Inc., the market leader in technology-enabled legal education, from Leeds Equity Partners, and BARBRI’s subsequent acquisitions of West Academic, a leading publisher of casebooks, treatises and study aids for law students, and Quimbee, a digital learning platform offering subscription-based law school study aids, case briefs, video lessons and practice questions
- combination of TradingScreen, a provider of trading execution and order management software, and Imagine Software, a real-time risk and compliance platform, creating TS Imagine, and TS Imagine’s subsequent acquisition of PrimeOne, a prime brokerage and operational risk management platform, from S&P Global
- acquisition of IBM’s healthcare data and analytics assets, resulting in the formation of Merative, a leading healthcare data and analytics company serving life sciences, provider, imaging and health plan markets
- sale of HealthcareSource, a leading provider of talent management software for the healthcare industry, to symplr
Gryphon Investors and its portfolio companies in various matters, including the following completed transactions:
- Metagenics’ acquisition of Symprove, a UK water-based probiotic supplement brand
- Mechanix Wear’s acquisition of OTEX, a developer of tech-enabled personal protective equipment
- acquisition of Safety Management Group, an environmental, health and safety consulting and staffing firm
- Mechanix Wear’s acquisition of Kinco, a leading manufacturer of premium work gloves
- investment in Spindrift Beverage Co., the leading maker of sparkling water with real squeezed fruit
- sale of Kano Laboratories, a leading manufacturer of penetrating oils and specialty lubricants
- Kano Laboratories’ acquisition of the Super Lube brand from Synco Chemical Corporation
- acquisition of RapidAir, a provider of compressed air distribution systems
- Vetnique Labs’ acquisition of Lintbells, a UK-based pet wellness brand
- sale of RoC Skincare, a leading skincare brand, to Bridgepoint
- acquisition of Vetnique Labs, a leading provider of veterinarian-formulated pet health and wellness products
Kingswood Capital Management and its portfolio companies in various matters, including the following completed transactions:
- sale of Lind Marine, a diversified marine services business headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, to Tallvine Partners
- strategic investment in Soulshine Farms & Pearl River Foods, a leading poultry processing company specializing in portioning, deboning, marination, packaging and custom sizing
- acquisition of Kodak Alaris, an industry-leading provider of document scanning, capture and information management solutions
- acquisition of Branding Iron Holdings, a leading provider of branded and private label protein products, including beef and pork, with a focus on frozen and refrigerated ground meats
- acquisition of PATCO Products, a manufacturer of specialty food ingredients and emulsifiers
- sale of The Save Mart Companies, a California-based grocer operating approximately 200 Save Mart, Lucky California and FoodMaxx stores, to the Jim Pattison Group
- acquisition of The Save Mart Companies
- acquisition of Lind Marine
Värde Partners and its portfolio companies in various matters, including the following completed transactions:
- PaperWorks Industries’ acquisition of The Standard Group, a converter of custom printed paperboard packaging
Prior Experience
Associate, K&L Gates LLP, 2020–2021
Summer Associate and Law Clerk, K&L Gates LLP, 2019
Agent and Consultant, Wasserman, 2014–2019
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- California
Education
- Loyola Law School, Los AngelesJ.D. (Corporate Law Concentration, with Honors)cum laude2019
Order of the Coif
Alpha Sigma Nu
Note & Comment Editor, Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review
- University of OregonB.S., Biology2012