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Kirkland & Ellis is advising Arcus Infrastructure Partners and Arcus European Infrastructure Fund 2 SCSp (AEIF2) on the definitive agreement to sell 100% of Constellation Cold Logistics to EQT Infrastructure VI fund. Constellation is an independent cold storage logistics business in Europe with 26 large cold storage facilities across seven countries in Western Europe and the Nordics. Read Arcus’ press release The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Monica Gemes and Toby Parkinson and supported by associates Claudia Carr, Adam Diouri and Raphael Khoo; debt finance partner James Boswell and associate Aram Valesyan; antitrust & competition partner Alasdair Balfour and associate Alexandre Rouhette; and tax partners Ceinwen Rees and Rob Sharpe and associate Cosmos Fung.

Jun 24

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis advised Luminate Capital Partners, a private equity firm investing in growth software companies, on its investment in AbsenceSoft, the leading SaaS platform for leave of absence and accommodations management. Luminate's investment will help AbsenceSoft continue its growth trajectory and expand its leadership position in the market. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Read the transaction press release The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Rodin Hai-Jew and Javier Oliver-Keymorth and associates Lauren Iwasaki and Jane Guo; tax partner Devin Heckman and associates Nithya Sheshadri and Grace Nielsen; debt finance partners Nisha Kanchanapoomi and Caitlin Bouey and associate Shelby Lindholm; technology & IP transactions partner Vlad Khodosh and associate Malia Taqbeem; executive compensation partner Jack Stratton and associate Deena Muzafar; employee benefits of counsel Jack Bernstein and associate Mackenzie Packard; employment & labor partner Jackie Heffernan and associate Maayan Sachs; international trade & national security partner Mario Mancuso and associates Billy Phalen and Brandon Ricaurte; real estate partner Roberto Miceli and associate Bob McAuliff; environmental transactions partner Paul Tanaka and associate Omar Khodor; and antitrust & competition partners Matthew Wheatley and Mark Gardner and associates Mackenzie Pike and Alexandre Rouhette.

Sep 17

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis is advising Nordic Capital on entering into an agreement to sell Sunrise Medical, a specialist in assistive mobility solutions, to global investment firm Platinum Equity. Completion of the transaction is expected in Q3 2024 and is subject to customary regulatory approvals. Read Nordic Capital’s press release The Kirkland team is led by corporate partners David Higgins, Keir MacLennan and Victoria Legg and associates Melissa Sawyer, Christopher Weale, Ben Zelouf and Talodabioluwa Olu-Odugbemi; debt finance partner Evgeny Zborovsky; tax partner Peter Abbott and associate Hugo Coleman; and antitrust partner Thomas Wilson and associate Alexandre Rouhette.

Jun 5

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis advised the shareholders of Metaco, a Swiss-based provider of digital asset custody and tokenization technology, on its sale to Ripple, a leader in enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions. The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Louis Gosset and Ryan Brissette and associates Philippe Simard and Bridget Hamway; debt finance partner Kalish Mullen and tax partner Mark Schwed and associate Charles Roarty, with assistance from antitrust partner Thomas Wilson and associate Alexandre Rouhette; technology & IP transactions partners Jeffery Norman and Joanna Schlingbaum and associate Maggie King; employee benefits partner Alexandra Mihalas and associate Hannah Barlow; and executive compensation partner Michael Krasnovsky and associate Rebekah Kostelak.

May 19

1 min