Lilit Voskanyan

Kirkland & Ellis counseled Sumeru Equity Partners (SEP), a growth-focused technology investment firm based in the Bay Area, on its strategic investment in Ceros, an interactive SaaS design platform, which will help Ceros to continue its momentum as a leader in digital content creation. Management and existing investors participated in the investment. Additional terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Read the company press release from Sumeru Kirkland’s team was led by transactional partner Lilit Voskanyan and included transactional partner Adam Phillips; capital markets partner Bob Goedert; tax partner Devin Heckman; and transactional associates Stella Lee and Parth Bhatt.

Jul 24

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis advised K1 Investment Management and its portfolio company Smarsh Inc., a global leader in electronic communications archiving solutions for regulated organizations, in Smarsh’s definitive acquisition of Digital Reasoning Systems, Inc., a global leader in natural language processing, artificial intelligence and machine learning. The combined company will enable customers to spot risks before they happen, maximize the scalability of supervision teams, and uncover strategic insights from large volumes of data in real-time. The Kirkland team was led by transactional partners Adam Phillips and Lilit Voskanyan, and included associates Julia Chong, Natalie Jonsson and John Sheridan; tax partner Devin Heckman and associate Allison Bray; technology & IP transactions partner Seth Traxler and associate Michael James; employee benefits partner Alexandra Mihalas and associate Theodore Brown; employment & labor partners Peter Mee and Sydney Jones, and associates Anusheh Khoshsima and Wes Benter; executive compensation partners Rohit Nafday and Malhar Naik, and associates Matthew Wood and Katherine Baker; real estate partner Roberto Miceli and associate Garrett Kurtzweil; environmental partners Paul Tanaka and Michael Saretsky; antitrust & competition partners Ian John, Sally Evans, Katherine Rocco and Stephanie Greco, and associate Miata Eggerly; international trade & national security partner Mario Mancuso and associate Carrie Schroll; debt finance partners Brian Ford and Paul Rezvani, and associates Jeanne Lee John, Steve Soro and Jose Barragan-Monge; capital markets partner Bob Goedert; and transactional partner Jessica Sicsu.

Nov 23

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis advised Cybera, a leading provider of network and security solutions, in its acquisition by Professional Datasolutions, Inc. (PDI), a global provider of ERP, fuel pricing, logistics, and marketing cloud solutions. Cybera is a portfolio company of private equity firm Sumeru Equity Partners. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Read PDI’s press release The Kirkland team was led by transactional partner Lilit Voskanyan and associate Jana Glock, and included tax partner Devin Heckman and technology & IP transactions partner Vladimir Khodosh.

Dec 17

1 min

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Lilit Voskanyan has joined the firm as a partner and member of the Private Equity Practice Group. Voskanyan, formerly a partner with Kirkland & Ellis LLP, will reside in the firm’s San Francisco office, where she will continue her private equity practice and support the firm’s ongoing Bay Area private equity platform expansion. “We welcome Lilit to the firm,” said Ken Doran, Chairman and Managing Partner of Gibson Dunn. “Lilit’s experience, background and skillset make her a natural fit, and her addition to our Private Equity Practice Group is another step forward in the context of our global and regional growth plans.” Charles J. Stevens, Partner-in-Charge of the San Francisco office, said, “Lilit has been consistently praised by peers and clients for her work ethic, market knowledge, outstanding technical and soft skills, and deep understanding of sponsor-backed transactions. Her addition dovetails nicely with the recent lateral additions of private equity partners Abtin Jalali and Chris Harding and global finance partner Laura Rupenian, and will help us continue to build out a robust private equity platform in the Bay Area.” “I’m thrilled to be joining Gibson Dunn,” Voskanyan said. “I was drawn to the firm for its superb platform, collaborative culture, and excellence in the practice of the legal craft. I am particularly excited about the professional challenge and opportunity to help expand the firm’s Bay Area private equity practice.” About Lilit Voskanyan Voskanyan represents private equity firms and their portfolio companies in all aspects of their businesses, including buyouts, recapitalizations, growth-equity investments and general corporate matters, with a special focus on domestic and cross-border middle market and upper-middle market transactions. Voskanyan obtained her law degree, with honors, from the University of Chicago Law School. She earned her B.A. and M.A. from Yerevan State University. She also earned a Master of Comparative Legal Studies from American University of Armenia. Download PDF

Jan 19

1 min