Kirkland Advises Livingbridge on Closing of £334 Million Livingbridge Enterprise 3

Kirkland & Ellis advised Livingbridge, a leading growth-focused private equity firm, which recently closed its third small-cap fund, Livingbridge Enterprise 3. The fund was closed with aggregate capital commitments of £334 million. The fund, which will make investments in fast growth SMEs primarily in the UK, accepted commitments from a broad mix of global institutional investors, including pension plans, endowments and foundations, fund of funds and family offices. 

The Kirkland team was led by a London-based team of investment funds partners Jeremy Leggate and Christopher Braunack and associates Sophie Smith, Aisling Campbell and Esther Kim, and included London-based regulatory partner Prem Mohan and tax associate Art Ward, Chicago-based regulatory partner Christopher Scully and Boston-based tax partner Marguerite Lombardo.

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