Eva Davis

Eva Davis, Winston's Managing Partner – External Affairs, concentrates on U.S. and cross-border complex business transactions with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions and private equity. As an advisor to strategics and private equity funds and their portfolio companies, she has counseled domestic and international clients in public and private M&A transactions, public and private debt and equity financing transactions, including initial public offerings, and distressed sales and investments in and out of bankruptcy. Eva has also represented public companies and their boards of directors and special committees in connection with enterprise-transformative business opportunities and legal challenges, as well as providing corporate governance advice.

Eva has served as lead deal counsel and negotiated and completed transactions in a wide variety of industries, including aerospace, automotive, business and financial services, consumer products, energy, entertainment, industrials and manufacturing, medical devices, pharmaceutical, retail, semiconductor, software, technology and telecommunications. Her transactional experience includes deals ranging from tens of millions of dollars (for initial private equity investments and financings) to more than $5 billion (for acquisitions, industry consolidations and dispositions).

Eva graduated cum laude in 1990 from Harvard Law School and summa cum laude in 1987 from Duke University, where she double majored in Economics and Political Science and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.