Kirkland & Ellis counseled Mill Point Capital LLC, a New York City-based private equity firm, on its final close of Mill Point Capital Partners III, L.P. (Fund III). With approximately $1.7 billion of total capital commitments closed in less than five months from launch, Fund III, consistent with its predecessor funds, was oversubscribed and closed at the hard cap. Mill Point targets value-oriented, control investments in lower middle-market companies across the business services, industrials and IT services sectors throughout North America. Read Mill Point’s press release The Kirkland team included investment funds lawyers Kevin Wessel, John Muno, Michael Black, Wes Gangi, Alice Palkovitz, Chris Stoj, Daisy An, Reed Schuster and Danielle Sartain; and tax lawyers Dan Meehan and Chris Odell.