Kirkland Advises Trivest on Closing of Trivest Fund VII and Trivest Discovery Fund II
Kirkland & Ellis advised Trivest Partners (Trivest) on the closings of Trivest Fund VII (Fund VII) and Trivest Discovery Fund II (Discovery II) with approximately $950 million and $600 million of total capital commitments (including Trivest commitments), respectively. Both funds were oversubscribed and the fundraise for each fund was substantially completed in a single closing. Raised concurrently, Fund VII and Discovery II represent Trivest’s tenth and eleventh institutional private equity funds and bring Trivest assets under management to more than $4.0 billion.
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The Kirkland team was led by investment funds partners Kevin Lam and Daniel Lavon-Krein. The team also included investment funds partner Alpa Patel and associates Katy Kim, Alec Manfre, Nick O’Donnell, Graham L. Fisher, Soo Young Hong, Christopher Pristouris and Anna-Kay O. Richards, tax partners Lee K. Morlock, Paul Patrow and associate Simona Brooks, debt finance partner Aditi Iyer, employee benefits associate Kara M. Maddalena, financial services regulatory partner Zach Milloy, litigation partner Nick Niles, paralegal Ethan Miner and junior paralegals Yoav Yaakov Weinberg and Jesse Blanco.
