Erin Kinney is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York. Her practice includes private equity and venture capital transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, carve-out transactions and early-stage and follow-on investments and financings. She also regularly represents portfolio companies of private equity clients, including with respect to acquisitions and equity financings and general corporate matters.
Experience
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SignUp Software, a portfolio company of Insight Partners, on its acquisition of SKsoft and the formation of a global solutions suite for Microsoft Dynamics 365
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PDI Technologies, a portfolio company of Insight Partners, on its acquisition of P97 Networks, a digital marketing platform provider for the convenience retail, automotive, and fuel markets
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Insight Partners on its Series J investment in Databricks, a leader in data and AI, that values the company at $62 billion
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Insight Partners on its $200 million growth investment in Zest AI, a leader in AI lending technology
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Optimizely, a portfolio company of Insight Partners, on its acquisition of warehouse native analytics platform NetSpring
- Insight Partners in connection with the sale of Featurespace, a leader in payments protection technology, to Visa
- Insight Partners in a $456 million investment with Sixth Street Growth in Kiteworks, a leader in secure content communications
- Jama Software and its controlling shareholder Insight Partners on Jama’s sale to Francisco Partners for $1.2 billion
- PSPDFKit, a document processing and manipulation platform and portfolio company of Insight Partners, in its acquisition of Intregrify
- Klaus, a leading AI-powered quality management platform, in its acquisition by Zendesk
- Insight Partners in its $4.4 billion acquisition with Clearlake Capital of cloud analytics company Alteryx Inc.
- Keyfactor, a portfolio company of Insight Partners, in connection with a significant minority investment from Sixth Street Growth
- HealthEquity, Inc. in its acquisition of BenefitWallet’s Health Savings Account portfolio
- Insight Partners in its investment in in Bestpass, Inc., a leading toll management and payment platform for commercial vehicles
- Clovis Oncology, Inc. in the bankruptcy court-supervised asset sales of its targeted radionuclide therapy program to Novartis and its cancer drug Rubraca to pharma& Schweiz GmbH
- Insight Partners in connection with its recommended public cash offer to the shareholders of SignUp Software AB
- PDI Technologies, a portfolio company of Insight Partners, in its acquisitions of Blue Cow Software, LLC, and Skupos
- CommerceHub, a portfolio company of Insight Partners, in its acquisition of ChannelAdvisor Corporation
- Insight Partners on its investment in Precisely, a leader in data integrity software
- Insight Partners and Achieve3000 in Achieve3000’s sale to McGraw Hill
- Diligent in its acquisition of ESG software leader Accuvio
- PAI Partners in connection with its $3.3 billion pending acquisition of Tropicana, Naked and other select juice brands across North America from PepsiCo, Inc.
- Insight Partners in its acquisition, with Genstar Capital, of Vector Solutions
- Keyfactor, an Insight Partners portfolio company, in its merger with PrimeKey under the Keyfactor brand
- HealthEquity in its acquisition of Luum, a technology platform for employee commute management
- Insight Partners in its partnership with HBC to launch Saks as a standalone ecommerce business, and its $500 million minority equity investment in Saks
- Diligent in its acquisition of Galvanize, a SaaS governance, risk, and compliance software provider
- Diligent in its acquisition of Steele Compliance Solutions, Inc., an ethics and compliance SaaS provider
Credentials
Education
University of Michigan Law School, J.D., 2010 Emory University, B.A., 2007