Kirkland Advises CPP Investments on Acquisition of Stake in Universal Investment

Kirkland & Ellis is advising Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (“CPP Investments”) on its investment in Universal Investment. 

Universal Investment, a portfolio company of Montagu, is the leading independent provider of third-party management company and fund administration services in Germany and Luxembourg, servicing institutional investors and fund initiators.

Read CPP Investments’ press release 

The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Annette Baillie, David Higgins, Sebastian Haefele and David Huthmacher and associates Claire Rushton, Andrew Mon, Yoana Georgieva and Tamara Zehentbauer; financial services regulatory partner Reva Raghavan; tax partners Peter Abbott and Mavnick Nerwal; and antitrust partner Thomas Wilson.