Katya is a corporate attorney who focuses her practice on representing private equity funds, venture capital funds and their portfolio companies, prominent financial institutions and family offices in a wide range of complex business transactions.
Her experience spans carve-out transactions, strategic mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, private and growth equity, venture capital investments and minority equity investments. She represents both publicly and privately held corporations.
Prior to joining Benesch, Katya was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. She has extensive experience advising deal teams and senior management on legal business matters and general corporate governance issues; drafting, reviewing and negotiating transaction documents; and managing deal processes. Throughout her career, Katya has successfully represented high-profile clients in transactions ranging from $150 million to over $1.6 billion in value.
Katya has studied and practiced abroad in Moscow, Brussels and London, leveraging her diverse international experience to provide clients with a unique and comprehensive legal perspective.
*Matter completed prior to joining Benesch
Representative Experience
- Represented Marlin Equity Partners, in its sale of AdvancedMD to Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN).*
- Represented Waybill USA Inc in its acquisition of Luvata’s North American Tubes operations from Nordic Capital.*
- Represented FFL Partners, a private equity firm, 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.* - Represented K1, a leading B2B Enterprise SaaS Software investment firm, 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.* - Represented 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.* - Represented 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.*
- Represented Bain Capital in its $250 million growth investment in Cuisine Solutions.*
- Represented HGGC, a private equity firm, 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.* - Represented Triton and its portfolio company DeepOcean in the acquisition of Texas-based Delta Subsea LLC from CSL Capital.*
- Represented Integrity Marketing Group, a portfolio company of Harvest Partners and HGGC, in numerous acquisitions, including its acquisition of National Agents Alliance.*