Eva is a private capital M&A partner based in Silicon Valley and San Francisco with extensive experience advising private equity, growth, venture funds and CVCs, as well as their portfolio companies and various private companies on a wide range of complex transactions. Her focus includes mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts of public and private companies, debt and equity restructurings, recapitalizations and private equity and venture capital investments across large-cap, mid-market and growth transactions. Eva has led deals valued from several million to billions of dollars, navigating both domestic and cross-border transactions. Her practice spans diverse industries, including technology and software, financial services, healthcare, consumer and retail, professional services, industrials, marketing, automotive supply and manufacturing.
Eva’s clients have included leading firms such as Vista Equity Partners, HGGC, Luminate Capital Partners, FFL Partners, Accel-KKR, GI Partners, Marlin Equity Partners, Francisco Partners, Pritzker Group Private Capital, Serent Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund, Advent International and their portfolio companies.
Eva has been lauded as a “Next Generation Lawyer” by Lawdragon 500 X and a “Rising Star” by Law360. In recognition of her deep experience in the industry, Eva was also recently selected to serve on Law360’s Legal Tech Advisory Board.
Eva is an active member of the legal community and maintains strong professional networks. She is a member of both the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area and the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, organizations that serve as key forums for thought leadership and networking within the industry.
Private Equity, Private M&A and LBO
- Accel-KKR on its sale of TEAM Software to WorkWave.
- Accel-KKR on its sale of VYNE to The Jordan Company.
- Aptean, a Vista Equity Partners and TA Associates portfolio company, on its strategic growth investment from Charlesbank Capital Partners.
- AutoAlert, an HGGC portfolio company, on its acquisition by funds and accounts managed by BlackRock.
- Conexiom, a Luminate Capital Partners portfolio company, on its strategic growth investment from ICONIQ Capital and subsequent investment from Warburg Pincus.
- FFL Partners on its acquisition of ALKU and its subsequent recapitalization with New Mountain Capital.
- FFL Partners on its acquisition of Bacharach and Bacharach’s subsequent add-on acquisition of Neutronics and the sale of Bacharach to MSA Safety.
- FFL Partners on its acquisition of Crisis Prevention Institute.
- FFL Partners on its growth investment in Johnson County Clin-Trials.
- FFL Partners on its investment in Abacus.
- FFL Partners on its investment in Optomi.
- FFL Partners on its strategic investment in Medicus IT.
- Francisco Partners on its acquisition financing of SmartBear Software.
- Francisco Partners on its sale of Aesynt to Omnicell.
- Francisco Partners on its sale of Paymetric to Vantiv.
- GI Partners on its recapitalization of Daxko.
- HGGC on its acquisition of FPX.
- HGGC on its investment in Warren Averett Asset Management.
- HGGC on its merger and combination of Survey Sampling International and Research Now to form Dynata.
- HGGC on its sale of MyWebGrocer to Mi9 Retail.
- HGGC on its strategic investment in StrongView.
- HGGC on its strategic investment in True North Advisors.
- Integrity Marketing Group on its acquisition of Connexion Point.
- Integrity Marketing Group on its acquisition of Equis Financial.
- Luminate Capital Partners on its acquisition of AutoQuotes.
- Luminate Capital Partners on its acquisition of Compliance & Risks.
- Luminate Capital Partners on its acquisition of LiquidFrameworks.
- Luminate Capital Partners on its acquisition of Thought Industries.
- Luminate Capital Partners on its investment in Axonify and its subsequent add-on acquisition of Nudge.
- Luminate Capital Partners on its investment in Suralink.
- Luminate Capital Partners on its sale of a majority interest of Oversight to TCV.
- Luminate Capital Partners on its sale of Comply365 to Liberty Hall Capital Partners.
- Luminate Capital Partners on its sale of LiquidFrameworks to ServiceMax.
- Luminate Capital Partners on its sale of StarCompliance to Marlin Equity Partners.
- Luminate Capital Partners on its strategic growth investment in Ease.
- Luminate Capital Partners on its strategic investment in Fintech.
- Luminate Capital Partners on its strategic investment in Quantivate.
- Marlin Equity Partners on its acquisition of Virgin Pulse.
- Marlin Equity Partners on its sale of Compass Learning to Edgenuity.
- Parthenon Capital on its $900m acquisition of Kroll Bond Rating Agency.
- Pritzker Group Private Capital on its acquisition of Ci Medical by Technimark.
- Pritzker Group Private Capital on its acquisition of ProAmpac.
- Pritzker Group Private Capital on its sale of Clinical Innovations to EQT Partners.
- Quantivate, a Luminate Capital Partners portfolio company, on its acquisition by Ncontracts.
- Serent Capital on its acquisition of Appraisal Scope by Mercury Network.
- Serent Capital on its sale of Optimal Blue to GTCR.
- Togetherwork, a portfolio company of GI Partners, on its strategic investment from Park Square Capital.
- Verifone, a Francisco Partners portfolio company, on its acquisition of 2Checkout.
- Vertafore, a Vista Equity Partners and Bain Capital Partners portfolio company, on its sale to Roper Technologies for $5.35bn.
- Vista Equity Partners on its acquisition and combination of MarketLive and Shopatron to become Kibo.
- Vista Equity Partners on its acquisition financings of Cvent, Inc., Ping Identity and Lone Wolf Real Estate Technologies.
- Vista Equity Partners on its acquisitions of Interactive Achievement and InfoSnap by PowerSchool.
- Vista Equity Partners on its investment in iCIMS, iCIMS’ subsequent add-on acquisitions of Jibe, EasyRecrue, Opening.io, Candidate.ID and SkillSurvey, and iCIMS’s recapitalization with TA Associates.
- Vista Equity Partners on its majority investment in Alert Media.
- Vista Equity Partners on its majority investment in Pipedrive.
- Vista Equity Partners on its majority sale of Sovos Compliance to HgCapital.
- Vista Equity Partners on its sale of Fusion Risk Management.
- Vista Equity Partners on its strategic investment in Vivid Seats and subsequent strategic investment by GTCR.
- Vista Equity Partners on its various refinancings and repricings of DealerSocket, Social Solutions Global, Newscycle Solutions, MediaOcean, NAVEX Global and TIBCO Software Inc.
Growth Equity
- Advent International on its lead role in a Series C financing round of $150m for Tekion.
- Advent International on its Series D investment into BigID, valuing BigID at $1.25bn.
- Greenbriar Equity Group on its $500m investment in Uber Freight.
- HGGC on its investment into Denodo.
- ServiceNow on its $750m investment in Genesys.
- SoftBank Vision Fund and its affiliates on its investment in ParkJockey (now REEF Global); and ParkJockey’s and Mubadala’s acquisition of Citizens Parking and Imperial Parking, and its subsequent follow-on investments.
- SoftBank Vision Fund and its affiliates on its investment in Zume Pizza.
- Vista Equity Partners on its lead role in a $250m+ strategic investment in FLASH.
- Vista Equity Partners on its lead Series B Investment in Innovapptive.
- Vista Equity Partners on its minority growth investment in Benchmark Gensuite.
- Vista Equity Partners on its Series C investment in mabl.
- Vista Equity Partners on its strategic growth investment in Portside.
- Vista Equity Partners on its strategic growth investment in Schoox.
Public Company and SPAC
- FTV Capital, on its sale of CardConnect to FinTech Acquisition Corp.
- HGGC on its take-private acquisition of Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc. for $825m.
- HGGC on its take-private acquisition via tender offer of RPX Corporation for $555m
- Patrick Whitesell, the Executive Chairman of Endeavor, in connection with the $13bn sale of Endeavor to Silver Lake.
- Vista on its $1.65bn take-private acquisition of Cvent.
- Vista on its take-private acquisition with Elliott Investment Management of Citrix for $16.5bn.
*This list includes work that Eva completed while at a prior firm.
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