Sylvia Zaich is a corporate associate in the Bay Area office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Sylvia’s practice is focused on the representation of private equity funds and their portfolio companies on complex business transactions, including structuring and negotiating various strategic and leveraged acquisitions of public and private targets, divestitures, mergers and acquisitions, minority investments, restructurings, executive compensation matters, corporate governance and other general corporate matters.
Experience
Representative Matters
Vista Equity Partners, in transactions, including:
its $4.6 billion sale of Apptio to IBM
its $2.6 billion acquisition of Duck Creek Technologies
its strategic growth investment in Resilinc
its acquisition with Elliott Investment Management of Citrix
the recapitalization and ownership transition of Wrike to Symphony Technology Group
its strategic growth investment in Portside
Gryphon Investors, in transactions, including:
its investment in phData
its investment in Caylent
Clerk & Government Experience
Judicial ExternHonorable William H. AlsupUnited States District Court for the Northern District of CaliforniaSummer 2017
Prior Experience
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, 2019–2022
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
2019California
Education
University of Southern California, Gould School of LawJ.D.2019
Order of the Coif
James G. Holbrook Award, Volume 91, Southern California Law Review
Scribe Award, Volume 91, Southern California Law Review
Executive Senior Editor, Southern California Law Review
Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing CommunicationsB.S., Journalism & Political Science2011