Amelia Runyan Davis

Amelia advises private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies on middle market to multibillion-dollar business transactions, including negotiating complex mergers, acquisitions, minority investments, divestitures and restructurings. Her experience covers a variety of industries, from technology, software as a service (SaaS) and telecommunications to food service and restaurants, as well as consumer products, manufacturing and healthcare.

Additionally, Amelia counsels executive teams and general counsels on corporate governance matters involving dividend recapitalizations, executive employment and incentive equity arrangements, commercial agreements, and dispute resolution. Her experience also includes guiding closely held and founder-owned and -operated companies through equity investments and exit transactions.

Amelia is a member of Cooley’s diversity and legal education committees. Amelia’s pro bono practice has focused on immigration matters, including Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) renewals, permanent residency and temporary protected status applications, and humanitarian parole for deported veterans. She previously taught professional responsibility at the University of Chicago Law School.

Before becoming a lawyer, Amelia was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and a global strategic planning manager at Novartis Pharmaceuticals.

Amelia’s representative transactions include advising:

• Sazerac in its acquisition of BuzzBallz
• JMI Equity in its sale of Incident IQ to Cove Hill Partners
• Rubicon Technology Partners in its acquisition of Ascend Analytics
• Outmatch (now rebranded to Harver), a Rubicon Technology Partners portfolio company, in its acquisition of Harver*
• CallTower in its sale to BV Investment Partners
• MadCap Software, a Battery Ventures portfolio company, in its acquisition of Xyleme
• 11:11 Systems, a Tiger Infrastructure Partners portfolio company, in its:
  • Acquisition of Green Cloud Defense*
  • Acquisition of iland Internet Solutions*
  • Acquisition of Static1*
  • Acquisition of Sungard Availability Services’ Recovery Services Cloud and Managed Services businesses out of bankruptcy*
• Bertram Capital in its:
  • Acquisition of TSR Concrete Coatings*
  • Minority investment in Flooret*
• Aperture Pet & Life, a Bertram Capital portfolio company, in its:
  • Acquisition of EcoTech*
  • Acquisition of Neptune Systems*
• TG Topco, a Bertram Capital portfolio company, in its acquisition of Bolton Furniture*
• TSR Concrete Coatings, a Bertram Capital portfolio company, in its:
  • Acquisition of Apollo Drywall & Painting and Apollo Concrete Coatings*
  • Acquisition of Flagler Concrete Coatings*
  • Acquisition of Next Level Concrete Coatings*
  • Acquisition of Ninja Coatings*
  • Acquisition of PolyPro Concrete Coatings*
• Trimble in its:
  • Acquisition of B2W Software*
  • Acquisition of AgileAssets*
  • Sale of Iron Solutions to Randall-Reilly*
• Copley Equity Partners in its minority investment in FMG Leading*
• Peloton Capital Management in its minority investment in Unison Risk Advisors*
• Alchemer (formerly SurveyGizmo) in its sale to KKR Ascendant fund*
• Cricket Health in its business combination with Fresenius Health Plan and InterWell Health*
• Código 1530 Tequila in its joint venture with Pernod Ricard*
• Microsoft in its acquisition of Clipchamp*
• Hydrofarm Holdings Group in its acquisition of Aurora Innovations, Aurora International and Gotham Properties*
• Post Road Group in its sale of Surf Air Wireless*
• Thoma Bravo in its:
  • Take-private acquisition of Ellie Mae and subsequent sale to Intercontinental Exchange*
  • Take-private acquisition of Instructure*
  • Take-private acquisition of Sophos*
  • Acquisition of Veracode*
  • Take-private acquisition of Imperva*
  • Acquisition of DigiCert, add-on carve out acquisition of Symantec’s website security business, and subsequent sale to Clearlake Capital and TA Associates*
• Levine Leichtman Capital Partners in its:
  • Acquisition of Resolution Economics*
  • Acquisition of Club Champion*
  • Sale of Global Franchise Group*
  • Acquisition of Round Table Pizza*
• Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan in its acquisition and subsequent sale of Infiltrator Water Technologies*
• The Coastal Companies in its:
  • Acquisition of Hearn Kirkwood*
  • Acquisition of Lancaster Foods*
• SK Capital in its carve out acquisition of Perrigo’s active pharmaceutical ingredients business*
• Thomas H. Lee Partners in its:
  • Acquisition of Art Van Furniture and add-on acquisitions of Levin Furniture and Wolf Furniture*
  • Acquisition of Material Handling Systems, Inc.*
• Garnett Station Partners in its acquisition and subsequent sale of Fridababy*
• Arlon Group in its acquisition of Cicis*