Eric Kauffman

ERIC KAUFFMAN focuses his practice on corporate employment matters, providing strategic support to the technology and life sciences sectors and their private equity and venture capital sponsors. He routinely advises clients on a wide array of issues, including transactional matters, mergers and acquisitions (both buy-side and sell-side), financings, spinoffs and divestitures and equity structuring. Eric also has significant experience handling executive compensation arrangements, workforce structuring, hiring and terminating employees, proprietary information and trade secret protection, workplace investigations, C-level and manager training and general employment counseling.

Eric was named to the “Leaders of Influence in Law” list by the San Diego Business Journal (2025). 

Eric was profiled in the Daily Journal’s “Top Labor and Employment Lawyers” supplement in 2020 and 2022. This annual list recognizes California lawyers for their work on significant cases, investigations, and transactions that had an impact on the larger world of labor and employment or the development of law.

• Northlane Capital Partners in the sale of PAR Excellence Systems, Inc. (PAR) to OceanSound Partners, a provider of automated supply chain and inventory management solutions to government, non-profit, and private healthcare systems
• Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. in its strategic investment in Aptean 
• Symplr Software, a portfolio company backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P., in its acquisition of HealthcareSource HR Inc., a provider of talent management software for the healthcare industry, from Francisco Partners
• Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. in its equity investment in RSA Security LLC, a global provider of mission critical cybersecurity software and governance risk and compliance management software solutions to enterprises
• Ivanti Software, Inc., a portfolio company of Clearlake Capital Group, L.P., in a strategic investment by Charlesbank Capital Partners, LLC
• Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. in its acquisition of Precisely, a global leader in data integrity, together with TA Associates
• Symplr Software in its acquisition of Phynd Technologies, a global healthcare governance, risk management, and compliance software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform
• Ivanti Software, Inc., a portfolio company of Clearlake Capital Group, L.P., in its proposed acquisition of Cherwell Software
• Zywave, Inc., a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of front office distribution solutions backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. and Aurora Capital Partners in its acquisition of Insurance Technologies Corporation (ITC), a provider of marketing, rating and management software and services to the insurance industry, from Accel-KKR
• Cloudbreak Health, LLC, a leading unified telemedicine and video medical interpretation solutions provider, in its pending business combination with GigCapital2 (NYSE: GIX), a SPAC, and GigCapital2’s concurrent business combination with UpHealth Holdings, Inc., one of the largest national and international digital healthcare providers, in a combined deal valued at approximately US$1.35 billion
• Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. in its acquisition of nThrive’s Technology Division from nThrive Holdings, LP, a portfolio company of Pamplona Capital Management
• Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. in its US$3 billion acquisition of Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc., a provider of cloud-based platform solutions designed to help small- and medium-sized businesses succeed online
• Haystack Sciences in its acquisition by insitro, a machine learning-driven drug discovery and development company 
• Symplr Software in its acquisition of TractManager, an Arsenal Capital Partners portfolio company
• Dude Solutions Inc., a SaaS provider of cloud-based operations management software backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P., in the acquisition of the asset management platform Confirm from Precisely
• Ivanti Software, Inc., a portfolio company of Clearlake Capital Group, L.P., in its acquisition of MobileIron Inc., a provider of mobile-centric unified endpoint management solutions
• Provation, a provider of procedure documentation and clinical decision software solutions backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. in its acquisition of ePreop
• Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. in its acquisition of Zywave, Inc., a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of front office insurance solutions
• Symplr Software in its acquisition of ComplyTrack from the Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory division
• Palo Alto Networks in its US$265 million acquisition of The Crypsis Group, a risk management and digital forensics consulting firm
• ConvergeOne, a portfolio company of CVC Capital Partners, in its acquisition of Altivon 
• Ivanti Software, Inc., a portfolio company of Clearlake Capital, in its strategic growth investment by TA Associates
• Revionics, Inc. in its sale to Aptos, a portfolio company of the Merchant Banking Division (MBD) of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and its affiliates
• Perforce Software Inc. in its acquisition of Methodics Holdings Inc., a leading provider of intellectual property lifecycle management and traceability solutions
• Porch.com Inc. in its business combination with PropTech Acquisition Corporation, a SPAC, to become a publicly listed company in a transaction valued at US$523 million
• BaseHealth, Inc. in its acquisition by Genalyte, Inc.
• Palo Alto Networks, Inc. in its acquisition of security company, Aporeto
• Palo Alto Networks, Inc. in its $420 million acquisition of CloudGenix Inc.
• Thompson Street Capital Partners in its acquisition of Custom Wheel House, LLC 
• ProVation Software Group in its acquisition of Infinite Software Solutions
• 9to5 in its sale to Flokk AS, a portfolio company of Triton Partners
• Thoma Bravo and Ellie Mae in connection with Ellie Mae’s acquisition of Capsilon
• Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. in a number of acquisitions, including Dude Solutions, Digicert and Symplr Software
• Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. in a number of co-invest transactions, including in Appriss, Diligent and Eagleview Technologies
• Transworld Systems Inc, a Clearlake Capital-backed leading analytics-driven provider of accounts receivable management, healthcare revenue cycle and loan servicing solutions in multiple acquisitions
• Splunk, Inc. in its acquisition of SignalFx, Inc., a SaaS leader in real-time monitoring and metrics for cloud infrastructure, microservices and applications, valued at US$1.05 billion
• Represented GCLP Holdings, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fortive Corporation, in its acquisition of 100% of the equity of CTI Holding Company and its subsidiaries.
• ConvergeOne in its US$1.8 billion “take-private” sale to affiliates of CVC Capital Partners
• JetSmarter in its sale to Vista Global Holding
• Symplr Software in its acquisition of API Healthcare from Veritas Capital
• Perforce Software in its acquisitions of Perfecto Mobile and Rogue Wave Software
• ConvergeOne in its US$1.2 billion reverse merger IPO with Forum Merger Corporation
• Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. in the combination and US$1.26 billion sale of Syncsort and Vision Solutions to Centerbridge Partners
• Paratek Pharmaceuticals in its reverse merger IPO with Transcept Pharmaceuticals
• Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. in its US$1.1 billion acquisition of LanDesk from Thoma Bravo and combination with Heat Software
• NetMotion Wireless in its sale to The Carlyle Group
• AmQuip Holdings in its sale to Apollo Global Management
• PrimeSport in its sale to The Carlyle Group

*Some of the above matters were handled prior to joining Sidley.