Cat Zhang

CAT ZHANG represents private equity clients and public and private companies in domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, corporate restructurings, and general corporate matters. Prior to joining Sidley, Cat served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Christina A. Snyder of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, and was a pro bono fellow at Public Counsel, where she worked on impact litigation. Cat also participated in Sidley’s summer associate program in 2016.

During law school, Cat was chief managing editor of the UCLA Law Review and editor-in-chief of the Dukeminier Awards Journal of Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity Law. While in law school, she was a Masin Family Academic Excellence Award scholar.

• Warner Music Group and its affiliates in various media and entertainment transactions including:
  • The acquisition of a controlling stake in Tempo Music Investments, an investment platform for premium music rights of top songwriters, producers and artists (such as Adele and Bruno Mars), from Providence Equity Partners.
• ZMC in its acquisition of a controlling stake of semiconductor silicon solutions and services company Pure Wafer.
• Ridgeview Partners in its growth investment in IOT software and payment solutions provider PayRange.
• 9 Story Media Group, a portfolio company of ZMC, in its US$186 million sale to Scholastic.
• Houlihan Lokey, Inc. in its acquisition of Triago Management Development.
• Sara Happ Inc., a lip care cosmetics brand, in its sale of a minority ownership stake to BGM Ventures.
• HarbourView Equity Partners, a global investment firm focused on investment opportunities in the entertainment and media space, in its efforts to acquire BET from Paramount Global pursuant to an auction process, including related equity and debt financing matters.
• Simeio, a portfolio company of ZMC, in its acquisition of PathMaker Group (PMG), a provider of identity management services and solutions.
• ZMC in its strategic investment in Wpromote, an independent digital marketing agency.
• Symplr in its purchase of healthcare supply chain management software provider GreenLight Medical, Inc.
• ITRenew, a portfolio company of investment funds managed by ZMC, in its sale to Iron Mountain valued at US$925 million.
• Affiliates of ZMC in their acquisitions of Simpler Trading and CMI Marketing, Inc.
• CafeMedia, a portfolio company of investment funds managed by ZMC, in its acquisitions of Topic (Chia Labs, Inc.) and Slickstream.
• U.S.-based private equity fund sponsor in their acquisition of MMA Capital Holdings, Inc. for US$161.7 million.
• EW Group GmbH in its acquisition of Hygiena, a leader in food safety and environmental testing solutions, from Warburg Pincus LLC.
• Warner Gaming on the sale of its one-half joint venture interest in the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sioux City to Peninsula Pacific Entertainment.
• 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.
• Affiliates of Siris Capital Group, LLC and Pulse Secure, LLC in the sale of Pulse Secure, LLC to Ivanti, Inc.
• Affiliates of Siris Capital Group, LLC in their US$1.7 billion acquisition of Electronics for Imaging, Inc. 
• KKR in its approximately US$300 million investment in ReliaQuest.
• Wave Computing, Inc. in its Chapter 11 sale to an affiliate of Tallwood Venture Capital.
• 9to5 in its sale to Flokk AS, a portfolio company of Triton Partners.
• Vector Capital in their sale of CollabNet Holdings, Inc. to TPG Capital.
• Paine Schwartz Partners LLC in a growth equity investment in Advanced Agrilytics, LLC.
• Total Finance Investment Inc, and Car Outlet Holding Inc. in their Chapter 11 bankruptcy case.
• Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. in its acquisition of Dude Solutions.
• Investment funds affiliated with Z Capital Partners, L.L.C. in their acquisitions of Techniks Tool Group and CTM Group, Inc.
• ITRenew, Inc. in its acquisition of eSISO, LLC.
• Pandora Media, Inc. as issuer in public and private securities offerings, including its privately negotiated exchange of approximately US$190 million aggregate principal amount of senior convertible notes.
• IPC Television (Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath), an Emmy-winning television production company, and its equityholders and principals, including Eli Holzman, in the sale of IPC Television to CORE Media (American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance) and the relaunch of the combined entities as Industrial Media with Eli Holzman as CEO.

• Board Member, Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles
• Board Member, Asian Pacific American Women Lawyers Alliance