Travis J. Distaso

Travis is co-chair of the firm's M&A practice and a San Francisco-based partner representing private equity sponsors on middle market platform and add-on acquisitions. He focuses on the consumer sector, together with food and beverage and franchise businesses, along with software, renewable energy and other regulated industries. He also advises venture capital firms on growth equity investments.

Travis has closed more than 50 transactions for sponsor and sponsor-backed clients including Dragoneer, Franchise Equity Partners, FreshRealm, Gryphon Investors, Limerston Capital, the Octopus Energy and Sky Renewables funds, Olympus Partners, Peak Rock Capital, Pritzker Private Capital, Solamere Capital, Tiger Global, Vector Capital and Westward Partners. He is recognized by Legal 500 as a Tier One "City Elite" lawyer for Corporate and M&A in San Francisco.

Travis is a member of the firm's Private Equity group and serves as the San Francisco office hiring partner. Before joining the firm, he was an M&A partner at Kirkland & Ellis in San Francisco and venture capital counsel at Gunderson Dettmer. He began his career in investment banking and sales & trading at Bank of America and Citi.