Kirkland Advises KKR as Part of Investor Consortium Acquiring GreenSky from Goldman Sachs

Kirkland & Ellis advised KKR as part of a consortium of institutional investors, led by Sixth Street, that has agreed to acquire home improvement lending platform GreenSky and associated loan assets from The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2024, subject to standard closing conditions.

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The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Daniel Guerin, Valentine Bleicher and Jennifer Perkins, with support from corporate partner Hayley Hollender and associate Olivia Castor; investment funds partners Nicole Washington, Erica Temel and Charles Tanenbaum and associates Ugo Nwasike, William Ballentine and Zachary Van Kovering; banking regulatory partner Edwin del Hierro; antitrust & competition partners Ian John, Shahrzad Sadjadi and Paula Riedel and associate Ben Feis; capital markets partner Ross Leff; and tax partners Mike Beinus, Adam Kool and Joseph Tootle.