Eva Y. Mak

About Eva Y. Mak

Eva is a private capital partner based in Silicon Valley with extensive experience advising private equity, growth and venture funds, as well as their portfolio companies, on a wide range of complex transactions. Her focus includes mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts of public and private companies, debt and equity restructurings, recapitalizations and private equity and venture capital investments across large-cap, mid-market, and growth transactions. Eva has led deals valued from several million to billions of dollars, navigating both domestic and cross-border transactions. Her practice spans diverse industries, including technology and software, financial services, healthcare, consumer and retail, professional services, industrials, marketing, automotive supply and manufacturing.

Eva’s clients have included leading firms such as Vista Equity Partners, HGGC, Luminate Capital Partners, FFL Partners, Accel-KKR, GI Partners, Marlin Equity Partners, Francisco Partners, Pritzker Group Private Capital, Serent Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund, Advent International, and their portfolio companies.

Recent work

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Private Equity, Private M&A and LBO

Vista Equity Partners

• on its sale of Fusion Risk Management
• on its majority investment in Pipedrive
• on its majority investment in Alert Media
• Vertafore, on its sale to Roper Technologies for $5.35 billion
• on its investment in iCIMS, iCIMS’ subsequent add-on acquisitions of Jibe, EasyRecrue, Opening.io, Candidate.ID and SkillSurvey, and iCIMS’ recapitalization with TA Associates
• Aptean, on its strategic growth investment from Charlesbank Capital Partners
• on its acquisition and combination of MarketLive and Shopatron to become Kibo
• on its majority sale of Sovos Compliance to HgCapital
• on its acquisitions of Interactive Achievement and InfoSnap by PowerSchool
• on its strategic investment in Vivid Seats and subsequent strategic investment by GTCR
• on its acquisition financings of Cvent, Inc., Ping Identity and Lone Wolf Real Estate Technologies
• on its various refinancings and repricings of DealerSocket, Social Solutions Global, Newscycle Solutions, MediaOcean, NAVEX Global and TIBCO Software Inc

HGGC

• on its strategic investment in True North Advisors
• AutoAlert on its acquisition by funds and accounts managed by BlackRock
• on its merger and combination of Survey Sampling International and Research Now to form Dynata
• on its sale of MyWebGrocer to Mi9 Retail
• on its acquisition of FPX
• on its strategic investment in StrongView
• on its investment in Warren Averett Asset Management
• Integrity Marketing Group on its
  • acquisition of Equis Financial
  • acquisition of Connexion Point

Luminate Capital Partners

• Quantivate on its acquisition by Ncontracts
• on its strategic growth investment in Ease
• on its investment in Suralink
• on its sale of LiquidFrameworks to ServiceMax
• on its acquisition of Compliance & Risks
• on its investment in Axonify and its subsequent add-on acquisition of Nudge
• Conexiom, on its strategic growth investment from ICONIQ Capital and subsequent investment from Warburg Pincus
• on its sale of StarCompliance to Marlin Equity Partners
• on its sale of a majority interest of Oversight to TCV
• on its sale of Comply365 to Liberty Hall Capital Partners
• on its strategic investment in Quantivate
• on its strategic investment in Fintech
• on its acquisition of Liquid Frameworks
• on its acquisition of AutoQuotes
• on its acquisition of Thought Industries

FFL Partners

• on its strategic investment in Medicus IT
• on its growth investment in Johnson County Clin-Trials
• on its investment in Abacus
• on its investment in Optomi
• on its acquisition of Alku and its subsequent recapitalization with New Mountain Capital
• on its acquisition of Bacharach and Bacharach’s subsequent add-on acquisition of Neutronics and the sale of Bacharach to MSA Safety
• on its acquisition of Crisis Prevention Institute

Accel-KKR

• on its sale of Vyne to The Jordan Company
• on its sale of TEAM Software to WorkWave

GI Partners

• on its recapitalization of Daxko
• Togetherwork on its strategic investment from Park Square Capital

Parthenon Capital on its $900 million acquisition of Kroll Bond Rating Agency

Marlin Equity Partners

• on its sale of Compass Learning to Edgenuity
• on its acquisition of Virgin Pulse

Francisco Partners

• Verifone, on its acquisition of 2Checkout
• on its sale of Aesynt to Omnicell
• on its sale of Paymetric to Vantiv
• on its acquisition financing of SmartBear Software

Pritzker Group Private Capital

• on its acquisition of Ci Medical by Technimark
• on its acquisition of ProAmpac
• on its sale of Clinical Innovations to EQT Partners

Serent Capital

• on its sale of Optimal Blue to GTCR
• on its acquisition of Appraisal Scope by Mercury Network

Growth Equity

Vista Equity Partners

• on its strategic growth investment in Portside
• on its minority growth investment in Benchmark Gensuite
• on its lead Series B Investment in Innovapptive
• on its lead role in a $250+ million strategic investment in FLASH
• on its Series C investment in mabl
• on its strategic growth investment in Schoox

SoftBank Vision Fund and its affiliates

• on its investment in ParkJockey (now REEF Global) and ParkJockey’s and Mubadala’s acquisition of Citizens Parking and Imperial Parking, and its subsequent follow-on investments
• on its investment in Zume Pizza

HGGC on its investment into Denodo

Advent International

• on its lead role in a Series C financing round of $150 million for Tekion
• on its Series D investment into BigID, valuing BigID at $1.25 billion

Greenbriar Equity Group on its $500 million investment in Uber Freight

Public Company and SPAC

Vista

• on its take-private acquisition with Elliott Investment Management of Citrix for $16.5 billion
• on its $1.65 billion take-private acquisition of Cvent

HGGC

• on its take-private acquisition of Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc. for $825 million
• on its take-private acquisition via tender offer of RPX Corporation for $555 million

FTV Capital, on its sale of CardConnect to FinTech Acquisition Corp

*This list includes work that Eva completed while at a prior firm.