Kirkland & Ellis advised Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, on its acquisition of Technical Safety Services (TSS) from The Edgewater Funds and JZ Partners. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Kevin Mausert, Brett Nelson and Shelly Hirschtritt and associates Robert Gregory, Brandon King and Max Chaffetz, tax partners Rachel Cantor and Polina Liberman and associate Ruth Thomson, technology & IP transactions partner Neil Hirshman and associate Trevor Martin, labor & employment partner Risa Salins and associate Paul Vasiloff, employee benefits partner Alexandra Mihalas and associate Caitlin Pyrce, executive compensation partner Jack Stratton and associates James Sprague and Daniel Rios, real estate partner Rob Miceli and associate Abigail Sexton, environmental transactions partner Sara Webber and associate Matt Swanson, international trade & national security partner Carrie Schroll and associate Chad Crowell, government contracts partner Boyd Greene, healthcare regulatory partners Lindsay Borgeson and Chad Ehrenkranz and associate Robert Kantrowitz, antitrust partner Matt Wheatley, M&A clearance assistant Jacqueline Purmort-LaBue and debt finance partners Dave Nemecek and Katie Taylor and associates Christian Rivas and Travis Arnold.