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Dana C. F. Kromm

Partner, Private Equity

danakromm@paulhastings.com
San Francisco+1 415 856 7263

Dana Kromm is a partner in the Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions practices at Paul Hastings.

Dana has over 25 years of experience representing private equity funds and corporate clients in public and private mergers, stock and asset acquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures, complex carve-out acquisitions, minority investments and corporate partnering transactions. She frequently represents clients in transactions with significant cross-border elements. Her experience has spanned industries, but she has a particular emphasis on the technology, life sciences and fintech sectors.

According to Chambers, one source said "Dana shined in her ability to focus on what matters and to think creatively — she shined in that. I cannot recommend her highly enough.”

EDUCATION

University of California, Davis, School of Law, J.D., 2001

UC Santa Cruz, B.A., 1996

REPRESENTATIONS

  • Francisco Partners for more than 20 years and across dozens of new money, add-on and disposition transactions, including most recently in its acquisitions of Veson Nautical, OEConnection and Command Alkon and its dispositions of Vendavo and Prometheus.

  • STG Partners for more than 20 years across dozens of new money, add-on and disposition transactions, including most recently in its acquisitions of Yodlee, S&P Global’s Enterprise Data Management business and Avid Technology, and its combination of its portfolio companies CAI Software and Print ePS.

RECOGNITIONS

  • Notable Practitioner

    IFLR1000

  • Private Equity Buyouts

    Legal 500 USA

PUBLICATIONS

  • "Best Practice Series: Leadership," IFLR’s Women in Business Law Group’s Best Practice Series on Inclusiveness, Author

    SEPTEMBER 14, 2026