Kirkland & Ellis advised Sumeru Equity Partners on its $109 million growth equity investment in Aerospike, Inc. The investment accelerates innovation and go-to-market capabilities for Aerospike’s core transaction, analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, including vector and graph databases, to meet the skyrocketing data demands of the global data analytics and AI software market. Read Sumeru’s press release The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Adam Phillips and Kady Reese; tax partner Devin Heckman; executive compensation partner Rohit Nafday; and technology & IP transactions partners Daniel Lewis and Amber Harezlak.