Patrick J. Sandor
Partner, Corporate & Financial Services
Patrick Sandor is a partner in Willkie’s Corporate & Financial Services Department and Private Equity Practice Group. His practice focuses on buyout and investment transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, spin-offs and carve-outs, restructurings and recapitalizations, and growth and later-stage financings. He represents many leading private equity funds and their portfolio companies, with a particular focus on the technology, fintech and healthtech industries.
Experience
- Super Lawyers, Northern California Rising Stars, 2023
Patrick advised on the following significant matters:
- FFL Partners on the sale of its portfolio company Eyemart Express to VSP Vision
- Recochem, a portfolio company of CapVest Partners, on its acquisition of KIK Consumer Products’ Auto Care business
- CapVest Partners in its acquisition of Recochem;
- ASG, a portfolio company of Alpine Investors, in its acquisition of ThinkLP, a leading provider of loss prevention and safety case, audit and analytics management software;
- Homebot, an ASG company, in its acquisition of Quo Finance, a mobile app for first-time home buyers;
- Alpine Investors, in its sale of Mindful, a leading provider of callback software and services, to Medallia;
- ASG, in its acquisition of Sierra Interactive, a real estate technology platform for residential agents and brokers;
- ASG, in its acquisition of Hotel Effectiveness, a leading provider of data management software and labor solutions for the hospitality industry;
- Riverside Assessments, a portfolio company of Alpine Investors, in its acquisition of Aperture Education, a leading provider of social-emotional learning assessments;
- Omega Healthcare, in its acquisition of Vasta Global, a provider of real-world data abstraction and analytics services for the oncology market*
- Mainsail Partners, in its acquisition of Apptega, a leading platform helping companies build, manage and report their cybersecurity and compliance programs*
- Mainsail Partners, in its acquisition of ServiceCore, a provider of cloud based business management software for the liquid waste and roll-off industries*;
- Nomi, in its acquisition of Artemis Health, a leading provider of healthcare data and analytics for employers*
- Oportun, in its $213 million acquisition of Digit, a neobanking platform that provides automated savings, investing, and banking tools*
- Encora, a global digital engineering services company, in its sale to Advent International*
- ASG, in its acquisition of Bitfocus, a provider of data management and administration software for the health, human and social service industries*
- Talend, a leading provider of cloud data integration soltuions, in its $2.4 billion sale to Thoma Bravo*
- Mainsail Partners, in its sale of ResMan, a provider of property management software in the multi-family market, to Inhabit IQ*
- Alpine Investors, in its sale of MidAmerica Administrative & Retirement Solutions, a retirement and health & welfare plan administrator for public sector employers, to USRBP*
- Brillio, in its acquisition of Standav, a leading Salesforce consulting and systems integration firm*;
- GIC, in various undisclosed minority investments*
- NetMotion, a provider of connectivity and security software solutions, in its $340 million sale by The Carlyle Group to Absolute Software*
- DeepMap, a high definition mapping company for autonomous vehicle technology, in its sale to NVidia*
- ASG, in its acquisition of Alice, a provider of hotel management and operations software, from Expedia*
- ASG, in its acquisition of Trucker Tools, a leading provider of freight management and logistics software for the transportation industry*
- Nuro, in its acquisition of Ike Robotics, a leading developer of automated truck technology*
- Riverwood Capital, in its acquisition of Files.com, a leader in secure file work flows and automation*
- KKR, in its investment in PolicyGenius, an online insurance market place*
- Mainsail Partners, in its sale of FairWarning, a leading provider of application security solutions, to Imprivata*
- Alpine Investors, in its sale of YDesign Group, an online lighting and design supplier, to Design Holdings*
- Alpine Investors, in its acquisition of RA Outdoors (d/b/a Aspira), a provider of software for the outdoor recreation industry, from Vista Equity Partners*
- Alpine Investors, in its acquisition of Innovative Systems, a provider of mission-critical enterprise software for the independent telecommunications industry*
- Mainsail Partners, in its sale of SentryOne, a technology provider of database performance monitoring and DataOps solutions, to SolarWinds*
- ASG, in its acquisition of Hombebot, an AI-driven engagement platform tool for the mortgage lending and real estate industries*
- Riverside Assessments, a portfolio company of Alpine Investors, its acquisition of ImPACT, a leading provider of research backed concussion assessments*
- Alpine Investors, in its sale of HealthComp, an independent third-party administrator (TPA) of healthcare benefits for self-funded employers, to New Mountain Capital*
- KKR, in its investment in Applovin
- Riverside Assessments, a portfolio company of Alpine Investors, in its acquisition of ESGI, an industry-leading SaaS platform for administering, creating, tracking and reporting teacher-led assessments of early childhood students*
- Brillio, its acquisition of Cognetik, a leading provider of data insights and services*
- Tesla, in its acquisition of Maxwell Technologies*
- Alpine Investors, in its sale of Perennial EdTech, a platform of market-leading education software solutions, to Frontline Education*
- Hirevue, a provider of AI-driven talent assessment and interviewing software solutions, in its sale to The Carlyle Group*
- Alpine Investors, in its sale of Optima Healthcare Solutions, a therapy management SaaS company serving the post-acute care market, to Net Health*
- CapitalG, in numerous minority investment transactions*
- International Decision Systems, a provider of asset finance software solutions, in its sale to Thoma Bravo*
- Microchip Technology, in its $10 billion acquisition of Microsemi Corporation*
- KLA Corporation, in its acquisition of Nanomechanics, a leading provider of process control and process-enabling solutions for manufacturing wafers and reticles*;
- Alpine Investors, in its acquisition of the “Riverside Insights” clinical and standardized testing portfolio, in a carve-out transaction, of Houghton Mifflin*
- Alpine Investors, in its acquisition of Virtual Hold Technology, a supplier virtual queuing and customer engagement software that helps businesses manage their call center processer*
- Alpine Investors, in its acquisition of Software Answers, a provider of student information and learning management software solutions to the K-12 education industry*
- Alpine Investors, in its sale of YouCaring, a donation-based crowd funding platform, to GoFundMe*
- KLA Corporation, in its acquisition of Microsense, a leading designer and developer of capacitive position sensors, metrology modules, and magnetic metrology tools*
- KKR, in its investment in Cherwell Software*
- KLA Corporation, in its acquisition of Zeta Instruments, a provider of optical profilers of surface metallurgy*
- Silego Technologies, in its sale to Dialog Semiconductor
- Alpine Investors, in its acquisition of Escape Technology, a leading ERP software provider for the K-12 education industry*
- Mosaik Partners, in numerous minority investment transactions*
- Sequoia Capital, in various minority investment transactions*
- Francisco Partners, in its sale of Aesynt, a provider of pharmacy integration software solutions*;
- Francisco Partners, its sale of NexTraq, a leading provider of fleet management software solutions,*
- Marlin Equity Partners, in its acquisition of Verisae, a leading provider of software solutions to manage and monitor energy efficiency, asset performance and environmental compliance*
*Patrick advised on these matters prior to joining Willkie.
Credentials
Education
University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, J.D. (cum laude), 2011 Amherst College, B.A., 2007