Kevin J. Sullivan

Kevin is a senior transactional attorney and strategic advisor who brings more than 25 years of private equity and M&A experience to Reed Smith’s Boston office. He advises private equity sponsors and other investment funds, public and private companies, and family offices on a wide variety of complex transactional matters, including leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and growth equity investments.

Experience

Representative matters

Represented Providence Equity Partners and its portfolio companies in transactions involving 365 Retail Markets, LLC, Aladtec, Inc., ANC Sports Enterprises, Archipelago Learning, Ascend Learning, AutoTrader Group, Blackboard Inc., Bluestone Television, Clarion Events, EZLinks Golf Holdings, LLC, George Little Management, Higher One Holdings, Inc., Humanity.com, Informa plc, IPS Learning, KPA Services, LLC, Learfield Communications, Miller Heiman, Nelligan Sports Marketing, n2y, LLC, OUTFRONT Media, Inc., Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI), Q9 Networks Inc., RentPath, Inc., Scenario Learning, LLC, Seesaw Learning, Inc., SIDEARM Sports, Soccer United Marketing, LLC, Sweetwater Sound, Inc., TAIT Towers Inc., Tempo Music Investments, LLC, Tenstreet, LLC, TimeClock Plus, TopGolf Entertainment Group, Untangle NG Firewall, Vector Solutions, VitalSmarts, World Endurance Holdings, Inc., and ZeniMax Media.

Represented PSG Equity and its portfolio companies in transactions involving AbacusNext, Anju Software, Assembly, Avis Vérifiés, BackAgent, BirdDogHR, Blue Star Sports, BoldLeads.com, Inc., Bonzi Technology, Inc., Boston Logic Technology Partners, Inc., Burning Glass Technologies, Chatmeter, Inc., DigitalEd, DivvyCloud Corporation, DoseSpot, eGovernment Solutions, LLC, ExakTime Innovations, Inc., EverCommerce, Fidelity Payment Services, Inc., Formstack, LLC, GlobalTranz Inc., Impact Holdings, Inc., Inhabit IQ, Introhive, Inc., Jobcase, Inc., Kenect, LLC, LogDNA, Inc., LogicMonitor, Lone Wolf Technologies, Lumaverse Technologies, MarketMan Ltd., Ministry Brands, LLC, nCourt, LLC, OfColor, Inc., OpusCapita Solutions, PatronManager, LLC, Payline Data Services LLC, Pineapple Payments LLC, Pointstreak Sports Technologies, Inc., Property Brands, Inc., Propertybase GmbH, SchoolStatus LLC, Semarchy SAS, Sevenrooms Inc., ShowClix, Inc., SignUpGenius, Inc., Singlewire Software, LLC, Skybox Security, Inc., Sturgis Web Services Corporation, Stylitics Inc., ThreatConnect, Inc., Traliant, LLC, Tribute Technology Holdings, LLC, Validity, Inc., Value Payment Systems, LLC, Wagepoint Inc., and YourCause Holdings, LLC.

Represented TA Associates and its portfolio companies in transactions involving DataMax Consulting Corp., FireStream WorldWide, Inc., Global Software, Inc., insightsoftware.com Inc., LOMOSOFT GmbH, The Pinnacle Corporation, and Professional Datasolutions, Inc.

Represented Susquehanna Growth Equity and its portfolio companies in transactions involving iCIMS, Inc., iContracts, Inc., MediSpend, MSCI Inc., Payoneer Inc., Poppulo, Real Capital Analytics, Inc., Reorg Research, Inc., Workfront, Inc., and XebiaLabs, Inc.

Represented Thompson Street Capital Partners in its acquisition of a majority stake in SmartProcure, Inc. and its growth investment in Green Mountain Technology, LLC; and SmartProcure, Inc. in its acquisition of Fedmine, LLC.

Represented Apax Partners, together with L Catterton, as lead investor in a $285 million investment in ClassPass Inc.; as lead investor in a $100 million investment in Payfone, Inc.; in a $100 million equity and debt funding round for Moda Operandi, Inc.; as lead investor in an investment in Guesty, Inc.; and in its acquisition of a stake in Signavio GmbH via an investment and the acquisition of Series A and Series B shares from Summit Partners and Signavio’s founders, both of whom retained an equity stake.

Represented multiple other leading private equity sponsors, including Thomas H. Lee Partners, M/C Partners, Permira, CVC Growth, Francisco Partners, Summit Partners, Highland Capital, Tidemark, Constructor Capital Group, Guidepost Growth Equity, Tower Three Partners, Brighton Park Capital, and SAI Group.

Recognitions

Kevin has been consistently ranked as a leading private equity and M&A practitioner by Chambers USA (Private Equity: Buyouts, Massachusetts), The Legal 500 US, IFLR1000, The Best Lawyers in America, and Super Lawyers, as well as numerous other legal directories and publications.
Ranked #3 among all M&A lawyers in North America for volume of mid-cap transactions, having handled 25 deals, in MergerLinks’ 2021 Top Mid Cap M&A Lawyers in North America list.