Kirkland Advises Sterling Group’s $2 Billion Oversubscribed Fund V

Kirkland & Ellis counseled The Sterling Group, an operationally focused middle market private equity firm, on the closing of Sterling Group Partners V, LP (together with its parallel fund, "Fund V"). Fund V was oversubscribed and closed at its $2 billion hard cap. The majority of Fund V's capital was committed by returning investors. In addition, The Sterling Group, welcomed several new investors that expanded the firm's investor base in the United States, the Middle East and Asia. 

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The Kirkland team was led by investment funds partners Matt Nadworny and Brian Delaney and associates Christine Wilson, Samara Sanderson, Nathan Wolcott, Nathan Judd and Josh Wilson; tax partner Stephen Butler and associate Victoria Chang; and employee benefits partner Liz Dyer.