Katya Boyko
Overview
Katya Boyko is a corporate partner in the Bay Area office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Katya focuses on representation of private equity funds, venture capital funds and their portfolio companies as well as family offices in various business transactions, including carve-out transactions, strategic mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, private equity, growth equity and venture capital investments, and minority equity investments as well as general corporate representations for publicly and privately held corporations.
Experience
Representative Matters
Private Equity, Private M&A and LBO Matters
- Working Group Two, a provider of a cloud-based core network platform for mobile operators, in its $150 million sale to Cisco Systems
- K1, in numerous transactions, including:
- its co-sale of Zapproved, Inc. alongside Vista Equity Partners
- $375 million acquisition of Digital Safe business by Smarsh, Inc.
- acquisition of Ria in a Box by ComplySci
- acquisition of Lever by Employ Inc.
- Vista Equity Partners in numerous transactions, including:
- its portfolio companies in connection with its acquisition of the businesses that compose the Daily Mail and General Trust PLC educational technology unit, Hobsons
- in recapitalization of iCIMS with TA Associates and subsequent add-on acquisitions of SkillSurvey
- FFL Partners in numerous transactions, including:
- its strategic investment in Abacus Group
- its investment in Optomi
- its investment in ALKU
- its acquisition of Bacharach and the subsequent acquisition of Neutronics, and subsequent sale of Bacharach
- HGGC, in numerous transactions, including:
- its $555 million take-private acquisition of RPX (NASDAQ: RPXC)
- its $825 million take-private acquisition of Monotype Imaging Holdings
- its $446 million take private acquisition of Nutraceutical (NASDAQ: NUTR)
- its acquisition Beauty Industry Group
- Luminate Capital Partners, in numerous transactions, including:
- its sale of AutoQuotes to TA Associates
- its strategic investment in Quantivate
- its strategic investment in Thought Industries
- its strategic investment in LiquidFrameworks
- its strategic investment in Fintech
- Katerra, in its recapitalization by the SoftBank Vision Fund
- Integrity Marketing Group, a portfolio company of Harvest Partners and HGGC, in numerous acquisitions, including:
- its acquisition of National Agents Alliance
- MRI Software, a portfolio company of GI Partners and TA Associates, in its acquisition of Qube Global Software, one of the world’s leading suppliers of property and facilities management software (2017)
- Waybill USA Inc in its acquisition of Luvata’s North American Tubes operations from Nordic Capital (2017)
- Triton and its portfolio company DeepOcean in the acquisition of Texas-based Delta Subsea LLC from CSL Capital (2018)
- Sumeru Equity Partners in its acquisition of 3Gtms, Inc.
- Marlin Equity Partners, in its sale of AdvancedMD to Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN)
- Francisco Partners in its acquisition of NMI, and subsequent add-on acquisition of Creditcall
Growth Equity, Minority Investments, Venture Capital Matters
- Bain Capital in its $250 million growth investment in Cuisine Solutions
- Footprint in connection with $1.6 billion combination with Gores Holdings VIII, Inc. and related equity financings
- SoftBank Vision Fund and its affiliates, in numerous transactions, including:
- its investment in ParkJockey (now REEF Global) and ParkJockey’s and Mubadala’s acquisition of Citizens Parking and Imperial Parking
- its investment in Zume Pizza
- Curewell Capital in its growth equity investment in WeInfuse
- GLP in numerous growth equity and venture investments
- Willoughby Capital in multiple growth-equity investments across various industries
Prior Experience
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton (Moscow and Brussels)
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- New York
- Russia
- California
Languages
- English
- French
- Russian
Education
- Stanford Law SchoolLL.M.2016
Honors in Private Equity Investing and Securities Regulations Classes
Corporate Governance & Practice Program
- Moscow State Law UniversitySpecialist in Lawsumma cum laude2012