Caitlin is an associate in Ropes & Gray’s corporate department, focusing on intellectual property transactions. Caitlin’s practice is focused primarily on representing clients in business and intellectual property transactions where technology, brand strategy, or IP assets are key elements. Caitlin also represents private equity firms and other companies in technology-focused mergers and acquisitions. Caitlin works with companies in a wide range of industries, including branded and consumer products, advertising, entertainment and media, technology, software, and finance. Prior to joining Ropes & Gray, Caitlin was a corporate associate in an international law firm's intellectual property and real estate groups.
Experience
- Represented Swoop, a portfolio company of New Mountain Capital, in its acquisition of MyHealthTeam, the creator of one of the largest patient social networks in healthcare, offering more than 62 condition-specific communities to support patients with chronic and rare conditions.
- Represented Simple Mills in a definitive agreement to sell the company to Flowers Foods, Inc. for $795 million in cash.
- Represented a nonprofit organization in completing its acquisition of a not-for-profit healthcare delivery system.
- Represented a private equity firm in its investment in a provider of fire and life safety services.
- Represented Bluecat Networks in its acquisition of LiveAction, a global provider of network observability and intelligence solutions.
- Represented TPG, an American private equity firm, in several transactions including:
- in connection with an agreement to acquire from AT&T the remaining 70% stake in DIRECTV that it does not already own.
- and its portfolio company Nintex, a workflow automation company, in the acquisition of Kryon, a provider of robotic process automation (RPA).
- in its investment in DirecTV in a transaction valued at $16.25 billion.
- in its acquisition of Ellucian, a leading provider of higher education software and services.
- in its acquisition of Entertainment Partners, the leading global end-to-end provider of production workforce management and automated production software and services to the entertainment industry.
- in its acquisition of a majority stake in Nintex, a market leader in end-to-end process management and workflow automation, from Thoma Bravo.
- portfolio company WellSky Corporation in an agreement to acquire ClearCare, a leading software-as-a-service provider used by home care companies.
- Represented EQT Private Capital Asia, an Asian investment firm, in several transactions including:
- in its acquisition of a controlling beneficial interest in GeBBS, a global provider of healthcare outsourcing solutions, from ChrysCapital.
- in its agreement to acquire WSO2, a leading provider of digital technologies including application development and identity and access management enterprise software.
- Represented Gauge Capital, a private equity firm, in several transactions including:
- and its platform Soleil Collective in acquiring a majority stake in Coco & Eve, an Australian beauty brand selling hair and skincare products.
- in its strategic partnership and recapitalization of Loving Tan, a leading luxury sunless tanning brand headquartered in Brisbane, Australia.
- Represented Bain Capital Double Impact in the sale of TeachTown, a leading provider of special education solutions for students with moderate to severe learning challenges, to L Squared Capital Partners.
- Represented The L.S. Starrett Company (Starrett) in its agreement to be sold to MiddleGround Capital for $16.19 per share.
- Represented Nintex, a process intelligence and automation platform,in the closing of its acquisition of Skuid, a low-code cloud platform that allows for the rapid design and development of business applications.
- Represented a medical device company in its acquisition of another medical device company focused on devices aiming to reduce the risk of stroke.
- Represented Stride Consumer Partners LLC, a private equity firm, in several transactions including:
- in its minority investment in Odele, a Minneapolis-based clean hair care brand.
- in a minority investment in Patrick Ta Beauty, the namesake beauty brand for world-renowned makeup artist to celebrities Patrick Ta.
- Represented MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc., a leading supplier of semiconductor products, in several transactions including:
- in a definitive agreement to acquire the radio frequency (RF) business of Wolfspeed, Inc.
- in its acquisition of Linearizer Communications Group, a developer of high-performance microwave photonic solutions with avionic and space-based applications.
- Represented Haveli Investments in an agreement to acquire Certinia, Inc., a Services-as-a-Business platform providing enterprise resource planning.
- Represented Yasso Holdings, Inc. and Castanea Partners in a definitive agreement to sell Yasso Holdings, Inc. to global consumer goods company Unilever.
- Represented Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) in a definitive agreement to sell its Surgical Instrumentation platform to STERIS for $540 million.
- Represented TravelCenters of America Inc. (TA), in entering into an approximately $1.3 billion merger agreement with BP p.l.c. TA, the nationwide operator and franchisor of the TA, Petro Stopping Centers and TA Express travel center brands.
- Represented America's Test Kitchen Limited Partnership (“ATK"), a leading food and culinary media business, in their acquisition by Marquee Brands LLC., a leading global brand owner, marketer and media company.
- Represented Advent International in closing a $175 million minority investment in Tredence Inc., a data science and AI engineering company.
- Represented Cambrex, a global contract development manufacturing organization (CDMO) providing products and services across the entire drug lifecycle, in a definitive agreement to acquire Snapdragon Chemistry, a US-based provider of chemical process development services.
- Represented Cinven, a global private equity firm, in several transactions including:
- in its acquisition of TaxAct for approximately $720 million.Afterthe transaction closes, Cinven will bring the business together with existing portfolio company Drake Software under a single holding company.
- in its investment in Drake Software, a provider of software for tax preparers.
- Represented Altamont Capital Partners in its acquisition of Service Minds, a provider of electrical, plumbing and HVAC services based in Sarasota, Florida.
- Represented Pfizer, Inc., a biotechnology company in several transactions including:
- in its entry into a definitive agreement to acquire Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, the maker of NURTEC ODT, an innovative dual-acting migraine therapy approved for both acute treatment and episodic prevention of migraine in adults.
- in its definitive agreement to acquire Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, Pfizer will acquire all the outstanding shares of Arena for $100 per share in an all-cash transaction for a total equity value of approximately $6.7 billion.
- in its acquisition of Trillium Therapeutics Inc., a clinical stage immuno-oncology company developing innovative therapies for the treatment of cancer.
- Represented Audax Private Equity, a leading middle market investment firm, in several transactions including:
- and Emplifi in the sale of a stake in Emplifi to Sixth Street Growth, a leading global investment firm with participation from the LionTree merchant bank.
- in the recapitalization of the Chartis Group, a provider of advisory consulting software analytics to healthcare organizations.
- Represented Genstar Capital and Association Member Benefits Advisors (AMBA), in the acquisition of Mercer’s Associations business.
- Represented GHO Capital Partners in its acquisition of Genesis Research.
- Represented H.I.G. Capital in its acquisition of BECO (“BHC”) Holding Company, the leading provider of critical fire life safety solutions, from Behrman Capital.
- Represented Harvest Partners, LP in the completion of its acquisition of Fortis Solutions Group from Main Post Partners LP.
- Represented Aquiline Capital Partners in its majority investment in Quicken Inc., maker of America's best-selling personal finance software.
- Represented Silver Lake, the lead investor in Noom’s approximately $540 million Series F funding round.
- Representing Francisco Partners and TPG Capital in their $4 billion joint acquisition of Boomi, a provider of cloud-based integration platform as a service (iPaaS), from Dell Technologies.
- Represented TA Associates and TPG Capital in their $1.6 billion joint acquisition of Planview, a software company providing portfolio management and work management solutions.
- Represented TSG Consumer Partners in a variety of transactions including its investments in CorePower Yoga and Vici.
- Represented Golden Gate Capital in its investment in Ensemble Health Partners, an industry-leading national revenue cycle management provider.
- Represented MAG Aerospace, a portfolio company of New Mountain Capital, in the acquisition of AASKI Technology, a leading provider of services for planning, designing, implementing, securing, and managing highly complex, mission-critical networks and systems for government clients.
- Represented W2O Group, a portfolio company of New Mountain Capital, in its acquisition of 21GRAMS, a strategic and creative marketing, advertising and medical education agency.
- Represented New Mountain Capital, an alternative investment firm, in several transactions including:
- and its portfolio company Cloudmed in its acquisition of Triage Consulting Group.
- in its acquisition of emids Technology, a leader in digital engineering and transformation solutions to the healthcare industry.
- in its sale of OneDigital.
- Represented KKR's portfolio company Heartland Dental in its acquisition of American Dental Partners.
- Represented Cressey & Company in its agreement to acquire a majority ownership position in StatLab Medical Products from Prairie Capital.