Kirkland & Ellis is advising Blue Wolf Capital Partners, a middle market private equity firm specialising in the industrial and healthcare sectors, on its acquisition of Synerlab, a contract development and manufacturing organisation based in Strasbourg, France, with six operating facilities in France and Spain. Following regulatory approvals, the transaction is expected to close in Q4 2024. The Kirkland team includes corporate lawyers Louis Gosset, Laurent Victor-Michel, Nick Appleton, Jacob Traff, Amanda Levi Acobas and Jack Evans; and antitrust & competition lawyer Aakarsh Narula.