Eric N. Fischer

GP Representations

• Align Capital Partners in the recapitalization of its portfolio company, E Source, and the related formation of a single-asset continuation fund.
• Alpine Investors in the recapitalization of its portfolio company, Apex Service Partners, and the related formation of an approximately $3 billion single-asset continuation fund. This transaction was awarded 2023’s “Secondaries Deal of the Year in the Americas” by Private Equity International.
• Aterian Investment Partners in the recapitalization of its portfolio company, Vander-Bend Manufacturing, and the related formation of a $460 million single-asset continuation fund.
• Audax Private Equity in the recapitalization of its portfolio company, Aspen Surgical Products, and the related formation of a single-asset continuation fund.
• BPOC in the “end-of-life” fund recapitalization of BPOC Fund IV, including the related formation of an approximately $425 million multi-asset continuation fund.
• Kinderhook Industries in the “end-of-life” fund recapitalization of Kinderhook Capital Fund IV and Kinderhook Capital Fund V, including the related formation of an approximately $1.3 billion multi-asset continuation fund.
• L Catterton in the recapitalization of its portfolio company, PatientPoint, including the related formation of a single-asset continuation fund.
• Thompson Street Capital Partners in the recapitalization of its portfolio company, Gurobi Optimization, including the related formation of a single-asset continuation fund.
• Vestar Capital partners in the recapitalization of its portfolio company, Circana, and the related formation of a $1.2 billion single-asset continuation fund.
• Waud Capital Partners in the recapitalization of its portfolio company, Ivy Rehab Physical Therapy, and the related formation of a single-asset continuation fund.
• Wind Point Partners in the recapitalization of its Fund VIII portfolio company, STG Logistics, and the related formation of a single-asset continuation fund.
• An upper middle-market U.S. private equity sponsor in the sale of a strip of equity in three portfolio companies to, and the related formation of, an approximately $2.2 billion multi-asset continuation fund.
• An upper middle-market U.S. private equity sponsor in the recapitalization of a portfolio company and the related formation of an approximately $1.3 billion single-asset continuation fund.
• A large, independently owned U.S. private equity sponsor in the recapitalization of a portfolio company and the related formation of an approximately $1.2 billion single-asset continuation fund.
• A U.S. fund-of-funds sponsor in an “end-of-life” fund recapitalization of two separate co-investment funds, including the related formation of two multi-asset continuation funds, totaling approximately $1.1 billion.
• A U.S. private equity sponsor focused on information technology and communications infrastructure in the recapitalization of a portfolio company and the related formation of an approximately $750 million single-asset continuation fund.
• An upper middle-market U.S. private equity sponsor in the recapitalization of a portfolio company and the related formation of an approximately $700 million single-asset continuation fund.
• A middle-market U.S. private equity sponsor in the recapitalization of a portfolio company and the related formation of an approximately $600 million single-asset continuation fund.
• A middle-market U.S. private equity sponsor in the recapitalization of a portfolio company and the related formation of an approximately $575 million single-asset continuation fund.
• A lower middle-market U.S. private equity sponsor in the recapitalization of two portfolio companies and the related formation of an approximately $550 million multi-asset continuation fund.
• An independent U.S. private equity sponsor focused on the lower middle market in the recapitalization of a portfolio company and the related formation of an approximately $350 million single-asset continuation fund.
• A middle-market U.S. private equity sponsor in an approximately $330 million “end-of-life” fund recapitalization, including the related formation of a multi-asset continuation fund.
• A lower middle-market U.S. private equity sponsor in the recapitalization of a portfolio company and the related formation of an approximately $100 million single-asset continuation fund.
• A lower middle-market U.S. private equity sponsor in the recapitalization of a portfolio company and the related formation of an approximately $50 million single-asset continuation fund.
• The Carlyle Group in the spin-out of its Ireland team.*
• The Carlyle Group in the spin-out of its Sub-Saharan Africa team.*

LP Representations

• HarbourVest Partners as a co-lead investor in a continuation fund sponsored by Arclight Capital Partners, which acquired an interest in the 192MW Sidney Murray Hydroelectric Project.*
• StepStone Group in its $80 million investment in a continuation fund sponsored by Qumra Capital, which acquired a strip of all portfolio assets of Qumra Capital I.*
• The lead investor in an approximately $120 million continuation fund sponsored by a leading Israeli private equity sponsor, which acquired multiple assets from an end-of-term fund.*
• The largest investor in a $190 million continuation fund sponsored by a middle market U.S. private equity sponsor, which acquired a single asset from one of the sponsor’s existing funds.*

*Denotes deals completed prior to joining Kirkland