Amy D. Keller

Amy Keller is a partner in the firm’s Private Equity group and chair of Goodwin’s San Francisco office. Amy focuses her practice on advising private equity sponsors, their portfolio companies and other private companies in a variety of transactions, including acquisitions and divestitures, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, and minority and growth equity investments, as well as general corporate matters. She has represented clients across a range of industries, including technology, healthcare, manufacturing, financial services and education, and represents impact and sustainable investment funds in growth equity investments. Amy also serves on the hiring committee for the firm’s San Francisco office.

Amy’s recent transaction experience has included representing:

TA Associates and its affiliated investment funds and portfolio companies in a number of transactions including:

• Significant investment in PowerGEM, a leading provider of electrical power simulation modeling software
• Significant investment in KatRisk, a leading global catastrophe modeling software company
• Significant investment in Technosylva, Inc., a provider of wildfire modeling, risk analysis and operational response SaaS solutions
• Majority investment in, and subsequent sale of, Power Line Systems, a provider of engineering software, to Bentley Systems
• Acquisitions of AutoQuotes, LLC, ConfigureOne, Inc. and FPX, LLC, now collectively known as Revalize
• Significant investment in The Benecon Group, a developer and manager of self-funded medical benefit programs
• Strategic investment in Conservice, LLC, a provider of utility management software and billing solutions; the subsequent strategic investment by Advent International; and Conservice’s acquisitions of WaterWatch, LLC and Apex Billing Solutions
• Strategic investment in MRI Software, a leader in real estate software solutions, and subsequent investment by Harvest Partners
• Majority investment in Confluence Technologies, a back-office automation systems solution for the investment managers
• Sale of a strategic interest in ZoomInfo (formerly DiscoverOrg, LLC), a leading marketing and sales intelligence solution, to The Carlyle Group
• Majority investment in Mitratech Holdings, Inc., a provider of compliance, risk, enterprise HR and legal management solutions, and subsequent sale to Hg Capital
• Sale of Accruent Holdings, LLC, a provider of real estate and facilities management software, to Genstar Capital
• Majority investment in StorageCraft Technology Corporation, a provider of data protection solution

Goldman Sachs and its affiliated investment funds (including the Horizon Fund, a growth-focused sustainable investment fund) in connection with investments in:

• Fortress Information Security, a cyber supply chain risk management solution for critical infrastructure
• project44, an advanced visibility platform for supply chain management
• Temperpack Technologies, Inc., which engineers and manufactures sustainable insulated packaging solutions for cold chain shipments
• Phononic, Inc., developer of a solid state technology providing a transformational approach to cooling, refrigeration and HVAC
• Impact Nano, LLC, a development partner and advanced materials supplier
• Cogito Corporation, a leader in augmented intelligence
• 98Point6, Inc., an in-app messaging-based provider of on-demand primary healthcare services
• NGINX, Inc., a software provider that powers half of the world's busiest websites and applications
• Moogsoft (Herd) Inc., an artificial intelligence provider for IT operations (AIOps)
• TraceLink, Inc., a provider of a platform that helps track and trace pharmaceuticals
• Sprout Social, Inc., a software company that helps businesses manage their social media presence from a central platform
• eVariant, Inc., a provider of an end-to-end healthcare CRM platform for healthcare organizations

JMI Equity and its affiliated investment funds and portfolio companies in connection with:

• Sale of Incident IQ, a leading workflow management platform for school districts, to Cove Hill
• Partial sale of Bloomerang, LLC, a provider of donor management software, to Warburg Pincus
• Growth investment in ButterflyMX, Inc., a property access technology solution
• Growth investment in OpenSesame, Inc., an educational technology company
• Growth investment in Whistic, Inc., a vendor security assessment platform
• Growth investment in Practice Ignition, Inc., a proposals and payments platform developer for professional services firms
• Significant investment in Canto, Inc., a provider of digital asset management software
• Significant investment in Bloomerang, LLC, and the acquisition by Bloomerang of Kindful, a fundraising platform for nonprofits
• Acquisition of Healthx, Inc. and subsequent sale to Thoma Bravo
• Sale of Arena Solutions, a product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions provider, to PTC
• Sale of Intelex Technologies to Industrial Scientific, a business unit of Fortive Corporation
• Investment in Cosential, Inc., a CRM solution for architecture, engineering and construction firms
• Acquisitions by Higher Logic, LLC of Vanilla Forums, Real Magnet, LLC, Informz, Inc., Socious, Inc., and Kavi Corporation
• Growth investment in HackerRank, a technical assessment and remote interview solution for hiring developers
• Growth investment in RecSolu, Inc. (d/b/a Yello), a provider of talent acquisition software solutions

Mitratech Holdings, Inc. in connection with its acquisitions of Syntrio, Mineral HR, Circa, Trakstar, ContractRoom, AdvanceLaw, INSZoom, Acuity ELM, PC Legal Tools (d/b/a Tracker Corp.), Cost Management Performance Group (d/b/a CMPG), ClusterSeven, ThinkSmart, LLC, No Surprises Software, Inc. (d/b/a Viewabill)

Arlington Capital Partners in connection with an investment in Riverpoint Medical, a developer, designer, and manufacturer of medical devices

Thoma Bravo and its affiliated investment funds in connection with its investments in: Motus, LLC and Runzheimer International LLC, vehicle management and reimbursement software providers, and T2 systems, Inc., a provider of cloud-based parking management and payment solution

Prior to joining Goodwin in 2015, Amy was an associate in the Chicago office of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP.

Amy was recognized as a recommended lawyer for her work in Private Equity Buyouts (Middle Market) by the Legal 500 US 2024.