Benno Sauermann

Associate Investment Funds

Chicago +1 312 862 4374

Benno Sauermann

Practices

Overview

Benno Sauermann is a corporate associate in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Benno concentrates his practice on the formation, structuring and operation of private equity funds and related management companies.

Select Fund Formation

  • Astira Capital Partners LP in the formation of its inaugural $675 million fund.
  • Thoma Bravo, LLC in the formation of a co-investment fund for its $8 billion acquisition of Coupa Software Inc.

Select Secondaries

  • A leading middle-market private equity firm in the recapitalization of its portfolio company, an insurance firm, and the formation of a continuation fund capitalized by secondary market participants and reinvesting limited partners.
  • Madison Dearborn Partners on the closing of a three-asset continuation fund sized at approximately $2.2 billion.

Honors Intern, Securities and Exchange Commission, Division of Enforcement

Summer Associate, Richards, Layton & Finger

Legal Fellow, The Vanguard Group

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Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2022Illinois

Education

  • University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolJ.D.2022

    Outstanding Pro Bono Service Award

    President, First Generation Professionals

    Member, The University of Pennsylvania Law School American Inn of Court

    Teaching Assistant, Future of Finance and Alternative Investments

    Arthur Littleton & H. Clayton Louderback Legal Writing Instructor

    Symposium Editor, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law

    Executive Editor, University of Pennsylvania Asian Law Review

    Philadelphia Diversity Law Group Fellow

    Honors Designation, Legal Practice Skills

  • Perelman School of Medicine at the University of PennsylvaniaM.B.E., Bioethics2022
  • South Carolina Honors College at the University of South CarolinaB.A., English & Historysumma cum laude2019

    Phi Beta Kappa