Kirkland & Ellis advised Growth Catalyst Partners (“GCP”), a leading middle market private equity firm that focuses on building leading information, marketing and tech-enabled services platform companies in rapidly growing vertical markets, on the closing of its second investment fund, GCP II, at its amended hard cap of $270 million. GCP II had a $200 million target and received commitments in excess of its hard cap. Read the GCP press release The Kirkland team was led by investment funds partners Brian Delaney and John Muno and associate Grace Duke, and investment funds regulatory partner Nick Hemmingsen.