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 Bain Capital in its $250 million growth investment in Cuisine Solutions.*
- Represented Curewell Capital in its growth equity investment in WeInfuse.*
- 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 Footprint in connection with $1.6 billion combination with Gores Holdings VIII, Inc. and related equity financings.*
- Represented Francisco Partners in its acquisition of NMI, and subsequent add-on acquisition of Creditcall.*
- Represented GLP in numerous growth equity and venture investments.*
- 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 Integrity Marketing Group, a portfolio company of Harvest Partners and HGGC, in numerous acquisitions, including its acquisition of National Agents Alliance.*
- 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 Katerra in its recapitalization by the SoftBank Vision Fund.*