Neil K. Vohra
Overview
Neil K. Vohra is a corporate partner in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. His practice focuses on negotiating and structuring complex business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, private equity investments, strategic investments, executive compensation and incentive equity arrangements and other general corporate matters. Neil has handled such matters on behalf of, among others, Bain Capital Private Equity, GTCR, Thoma Bravo, Partners Group, Pritzker Private Capital, Parthenon Capital, Accel-KKR, Great Hill Partners, Pegasus Capital Advisors, ParkerGale Capital, and Glencoe Capital, as well as many of their portfolio companies.
Experience
Representative Matters
Apax on its acquisition of Infogain
Bain Capital in its investment in CitiusTech
Bain Capital Tech Opportunities in its investment in When I Work
Bain Capital Tech Opportunities in its R$450 million growth investment in Bionexo
Bain Capital Tech Opportunities in its minority investment in A Cloud Guru
Bain Capital Tech Opportunities and HGGC in their investment in Buildertrend
Bain Capital Tech Opportunities in its majority investment in HST Pathways and Casetabs
Bain Capital and Bow Street in the $500 million acquisition of leading online jeweler Blue Nile
Bain Capital and its portfolio company Varsity Brands in its acquisition of the EastBay Team Sports Business from Footlocker
Hellman & Friedman in its acquisition of Enverus
StorageMart Properties, a self-storage company, in its $2.7 billion recapitalization into a privately held UPREIT by GIC, Cascade Investment and other investors
Thoma Bravo and PowerPlan in the $1.1 billion sale of PowerPlan to Roper Technologies
GTCR in its strategic majority investment in Biocoat
GTCR in its partnership with Steve Powell and Mary Mattes to form Harpula
GTCR in its strategic investment in Visionary Broadband
GTCR in its growth investment in Lexipol
GTCR and Park Place Technologies in the investment made in Park Place Technologies by Charlesbank Capital Partners
GTCR in the acquisition, with The Carlyle Group, of Albany Molecular Research, Inc., in a transaction valued at approximately $1.5 billion
GTCR in its partnership to form Epselon Global
GTCR in its partnership to form Corza Health, Inc.
GTCR and Lytx in the partnership and investment in Lytx made by Clearlake Capital Group and other investors
GTCR and RevSpring, Inc. in its acquisition of Apex Technologies
GTCR and Opus Global in its sale of Hiperos, LLC to Coupa Software
Partners Group in their investment in Confluent Health, LLC
Pritzker Private Capital and ProAmpac in the acquisition of Gateway Packaging Company
Tarsadia Investments on the sale of Lereta to FlexPoint Ford
Frontenac Company on the sale of Salient CRGT to GovCIO, a portfolio company of Welsh Carson
Caesars Entertainment Operating Co. Inc. (CEOC) in its Chapter 11 restructuring. CEOC, a majority owned subsidiary of Caesars Entertainment Corporation, provides casino entertainment services and owns, operates or manages 44 gaming and resort properties in 13 states of the United States and in five countries primarily under the Caesars, Harrah's and Horseshoe brand names. CEOC and its debtor subsidiaries had more than $18.4 billion in funded debt obligations as of the commencement of their Chapter 11 cases
Pegasus Capital Advisors and Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas in its $300 million sale to InterContinental Hotels Group
Pegasus Capital Advisors in its investment and strategic partnership with Phase Change Energy Solutions
Parthenon Capital Partners in its sale of Bracket Global to Genstar Capital
Parthenon Capital Partners in its strategic partnership with Hanson McClain Advisors
Parthenon Capital Partners in its acquisition of NxGen International
Parthenon Capital Partners in its acquisition of Payscape
Accel-KKR in its sale of Abila, Inc. to Community Brands
ParkerGale Capital in its sale of SMA Technologies to Thoma Bravo
ParkerGale Capital and Ipro in its acquisition of NetGovern
ParkerGale Capital and Ipro in their acquisition of ZyLAB
ParkerGale Capital in its acquisition of Ipro Tech and subsequent acquisition of inData Corporation
ParkerGale Capital in its acquisition of Rippe & Kingston Systems, Inc.
ParkerGale Capital in its acquisition of SMA Technologies
ParkerGale Capital and Surepoint Technologies in the investment in Surepoint Technologies by Aquiline Capital Partners
Prairie Capital in its sale of DRB Holdings to New Mountain Capital
Great Hill Partners in its strategic investment in Reflexis, Inc.
Glencoe Capital and Polyair Interpack in the sale of Polyair Interpack to Intertape Polymer Group
Arsenal Capital and Fralock in their acquisition of Career Technologies
Clerk & Government Experience
Judicial ExternHonorable Judge Thomas DurkinUnited States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois2014
Judicial ObservershipHonorable Judge Sharon ColemanUnited States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois2012
Prior Experience
PILI Fellow, Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago Law School, 2016
Summer Associate, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Chicago, 2015
Intern to the General Counsel, Omron Management Center of America, 2013
More
Thought Leadership
Speaking Engagements
Guest Lecturer, Private Equity Transactions, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Guest Lecturer, Private Equity Transactions: Issues and Documentations, University of Chicago The Law School
Publications
Co-Author, Ethical Dilemma of Worldwide Enforcement of Pharmaceutical Patents, Southern Law Journal of Business and Ethics, 2013 Edition
Co-Author, Swiss Secrecy Crisis, International Journal of Management, June 2012 Edition
Memberships & Affiliations
Board Member, Apna Ghar, a human rights non-profit organization working to end gender violence
Co-Chair of the API and South Asian Professional Networks at Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2016Illinois
Languages
- English
- Hindi
Education
- University of Chicago Law SchoolJ.D.2016
- University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignB.S., Financewith Honors2013