Kirkland Advises Nordic Capital on Closing of €2.5 Billion Continuation Vehicle
Kirkland & Ellis has advised Nordic Capital, a leading private equity investor focused on the Nordic region, selected Northern European sectors and the Global healthcare market, in connection with the transfer of its 2008 vintage fund’s (Nordic Capital Fund VII) remaining nine unlisted portfolio companies to a continuation vehicle in a €2.5 billion transaction. Fund VII’s original term expired in December 2017 and, by concluding this transaction, Nordic Capital will have the opportunity to maximise the value creation potential of these nine companies, providing them with active support and fresh capital over an additional five-year holding period under continued Nordic Capital management. Coller Capital acted as lead investor in the transaction, which was fully underwritten by Coller Capital’s seventh fund and Goldman Sachs Asset Management's Vintage Funds. More information is available here.
The Kirkland team was led by investment funds partners Ted Cardos and Anand Damodaran and associate Andrea Renold, and included investment funds partners Michael Belsley, Richard Watkins and Christopher Braunack, investment funds associates Zoe Pople, Emma Whenham, Yushra Raheem and Tata Mbako, financial regulatory partners Lisa Cawley and Adam Skinner, corporate associates Jessica Liang and Nick Appleton, antitrust partners Ellen Jakovic, Mike Robert-Smith, and Michael Thorpe, employee benefits partner Elizabeth Dyer and associate Erica Rozow, and banking regulatory of counsel Julie Kunetka.
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