Kirkland & Ellis advised HGGC, a leading middle-market private equity firm, on its strategic growth investment in Dentive, a founder-run dental service organization that provides management services to entrepreneurial, doctor-run general and specialty dental practices primarily in the western U.S. Terms of the private transaction were not disclosed. Read HGGC’s press release The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Travis Lee Nelson, Noah D. Boyens and Cameron Leishman; debt finance partners Sonali Jindal and Andrea Weintraub; and healthcare partner Chad Ehrenkranz.