Kirkland & Ellis counseled Valor Equity Partners, an operational growth-focused private equity investment firm with $17.5 billion in assets under management, on the final closing of its flagship fund, Valor Equity Partners VI (Fund VI). Fund VI was substantially oversubscribed, closing on $2.35 billion in commitments as compared to the Fund’s $2 billion target, with strong support from existing and new limited partners. Concurrent with the Fund VI fundraise, Valor also received over $1 billion in new commitments for other Valor managed funds, including Valor Siren Ventures II, a venture fund strategy and the Valor Opportunity Fund, a later stage growth fund, bringing total new commitments during the period to $3.4 billion. Read Valor’s press release The Kirkland team was led by investment funds partners Chris Kallos and Adam Parks and associates Angelika Pouliezos, Patrick Green, Charlie Gandelman, Olivia Liska and Ross Greenspan; and included investment funds partner Scott Moehrke; tax partners Dan Meehan and Mike Conroy; and ERISA partner Sabrina Glaser.