Randi Lally

Randi Lally represents private equity firms and industry-leading public and private companies in mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions.

In her work with clients, Randi leverages her extensive experience in mergers, stock and asset acquisitions and divestitures, carve-out transactions, recapitalizations, and other corporate and governance matters. Our investment management clients regularly benefit from Randi’s effective advice and extensive experience on acquisitions and dispositions of interests in hedge fund and private equity fund managers.

Randi’s clients include RedBird Capital Partners, Goldman Sachs, Dyal Capital Partners, and Permira Advisers, among others.

Randi was named to the Crain’s New York Business 2021 “Notable Women in Law” list, Private Equity International’s “40 under 40” list, and Mergers & Acquisitions’ list of “Most Influential Women in Mid-Market M&A.” In 2020, she was selected as “Private Equity MVP” by Law360 and a “Next Generation Lawyer” by Legal 500 in recognition of her private equity experience. Randi was also included in IFLR’s Euromoney Legal Media Group Americas Rising Star Awards, being shortlisted for “Best in Private Equity.

Work Highlights:

• RedBird Capital Partners in numerous matters including in its investment into Fenway Sports Group (“FSG”), valuing FSG at US$7.35 billion, its minority investment in The SpringHill Company, the production company run by LeBron James and Maverick Carter, its collaboration with the National Football League and Major League Baseball players associations to form OneTeam Partners, a company centered around the management of players’ portrayal, and its follow-on investment in Compass Datacenters
• Permira in numerous matters including its sale of certain portfolio companies, including the $1.68 billion sale of Magento to Adobe and sale of BFY brands to PepsiCo
• Aleris Corporation in its approximately US$2.8 billion acquisition by Novelis
• Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s Petershill unit in multiple transactions including its seed investment in Arctos Sports Partners Fund I and its acquisition of minority stakes in numerous investment managers
• Dyal Capital Partners, a private equity fund managed by Neuberger Berman Group, in its acquisition of a minority interest in Starwood Capital Group, a leading global private alternative investment firm, and in its investment in Vista Equity Partners, a leading private equity firm focused on investing in software and technology-enabled businesses