Kirkland Advises Gen II Fund Services on Acquisition of Crestbridge
Kirkland & Ellis advised Gen II Fund Services LLC (“Gen II”), an independent private capital fund administrator, on signing a definitive agreement to acquire Crestbridge, a European provider of private capital fund administration solutions. The transaction will increase Gen II’s assets under administration to more than $1 trillion and is expected to close in due course following customary regulatory approvals.
The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Keir MacLennan, Chris Connolly, Matthew Benedetto and Jennifer Perkins and associates Matthew Barbato, Oliver Weighill, Andrei Bucur and Thomas Matteson; financial services regulation partners Julia Dixon and Thomas Woodhead and associates Kilian McConnell, Alex Clothier and Sean Van Haaster; tax partners Mavnick Nerwal, Sara Zablotney and Sam Trowbridge and associates Hugo Coleman, Brandon Ho and Alexandria Solomou; antitrust partners Alasdair Balfour and Sion Davies and associate Richard Birch; real estate partner Zeina Kazour and associate Joey Galinsky; technology & IP transactions partner Emma Flett and associates Alex Zapalowski and Luke Vaz; employment and labor associate Kaitlyn Hodgman and employee benefits associate Mackenzie Packard.
