Winston & Strawn Appoints Chair of West Coast Private Equity

Eva Davis Joins Winston & Strawn Los Angeles from Kirkland & Ellis

LOS ANGELES, CA - Winston & Strawn LLP has announced that Eva Davis has joined the firm from Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Ms. Davis was the founding partner of Kirkland’s Los Angeles corporate department where she practiced for 15 years. Ms. Davis advises strategics and private equity funds and their portfolio companies on U.S. and cross-border complex business transactions with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions and private equity. She will be resident in Winston & Strawn’s Los Angeles office and serve as the Chair of West Coast Private Equity. 

“We are thrilled to have a proven leader such as Eva join us to spearhead our expansion of private equity on the West Coast,” said Eric Sagerman, managing partner of Winston & Strawn’s Los Angeles office. “Eva’s addition builds on the finance, structured products, mergers and acquisitions and other transactional capabilities that we have secured in Los Angeles to serve our clients.”

“The West Coast remains an important part of the firm’s strategic growth. Eva’s renowned experience, reputation and client-service focus are a welcome addition to the firm and our private equity practice,” said Thomas Fitzgerald, managing partner, Winston & Strawn.

“Eva will be instrumental in continuing the momentum behind our corporate practice and building our team’s presence on the West Coast, particularly in the changing and increasingly complex private equity deal environment in which we operate,” added Dominick DeChiara, partner and chairman of Winston & Strawn's corporate department.

Ms. Davis has advised domestic and international clients in public and private M&A transactions, public and private debt and equity financing transactions, including initial public offerings, and distressed sales and investments in and out of bankruptcy. Eva has served as lead deal counsel and negotiated and completed transactions in a wide variety of industries, including automotive, consumer products, energy, entertainment, financial services, manufacturing, medical devices, pharmaceutical, retail, semiconductor, technology, and telecommunications. Her transactional experience includes deals ranging from tens of millions of dollars (for initial private equity investments and financings) to more than $1 billion (for acquisitions, industry consolidations, and dispositions).

“I am excited to join the Winston & Strawn team in Los Angeles, and I look forward to the opportunity to lead the charge for the firm in private equity on the West Coast,” said Ms. Davis. “Winston’s corporate practice has a strong reputation nationally and internationally. The firm’s integrated approach to deal making across a number of practice areas provides an exceptional platform to support the firm’s continued growth in private equity. I look forward to working together with this talented group of attorneys to expand the corporate platform.”