Kirkland is advising EQT Private Equity on the £650 million acquisition of SPT Labtech, a manufacturer and designer of automated instruments and consumables for life science research. The team was led by corporate partners Roger Johnson and Aneeq Durrani and associates Sharon Skipper and Jung-Wook Lee, tax partner Tim Lowe and associate Rohit Pisal, debt finance partner Daniel Borg and associates Maurice Walsh and Anastasis Voskos, technology & IP transactions partner John Patten and associates Jessica Dye and RJ McLaughlin, ESG & impact partner Ruth Knox and associates Aladdin Benali and Daniel D’Ambrosio, antitrust partners Sally Evans and Carla Hine and associate Fiona Constant-Lotz, real estate partner Jennifer Sheehan, environmental transactions partner Michael Saretsky and associate Carter Vella and labor & employment partner, Risa Salins.