Paul Watt, Courtney Chen, Anna Baxendale, Jacqueline Ting, Ally Relat, Joel Peters-Fransen, Andrew Chan, Ally Nelson, Matt Cohen, Christopher Braunack, Rohit Chaudhry
January 24, 2026
Kirkland Advises Climate Adaptive Infrastructure on One of the Largest Inaugural Sector-Focused Fundraises
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- Kirkland & Ellis advised Climate Adaptive Infrastructure (CAI) on the closing of its inaugural fund, Climate Adaptive Infrastructure Fund LP, which raised over $825 million in equity
- CAI also established an affiliated co-investment program exceeding $200 million, bringing the total equity available for deployment to more than $1 billion
- The Kirkland team included partners and associates from investment funds, tax, regulatory, and debt finance practices.
Kirkland & Ellis advised Climate Adaptive Infrastructure (CAI), an investment firm that targets control investments in large-scale, low-carbon real assets in the clean energy, water and urban infrastructure sectors, on the successful close of its inaugural fund, Climate Adaptive Infrastructure Fund LP (the Fund), raising more than $825 million in equity. In addition, alongside the Fund, CAI has an affiliated co-investment program of over $200 million, for a total of over $1 billion in equity to deploy. Read the transaction press release The Kirkland team was led by investment funds partners Paul Watt and Courtney Chen and associates Anna Baxendale, Jacqueline Ting and Ally Relat; tax partners Joel Peters-Fransen and Andrew Chan and associate Ally Nelson; and investment funds regulatory partner Matt Cohen. Also advising were investment funds partner Christopher Braunack and debt finance partner Rohit Chaudhry.
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Paul Watt, Courtney Chen, Anna Baxendale, Jacqueline Ting, Ally Relat, Joel Peters-Fransen, Andrew Chan, Ally Nelson, Matt Cohen, Christopher Braunack, Rohit Chaudhry
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