Kirkland Advises Strategic Value Partners on €200 Million Preferred Equity Investment in Bjelin Group
Kirkland & Ellis advised Strategic Value Partners, LLC (together with its affiliates, “SVP”), a global alternative investment firm with approximately $19 billion of assets under management, on the signing of an agreement whereby funds managed by SVP will make a €200 million preferred equity investment in Bjelin Group, a veneer, flooring and furniture manufacturing business, to facilitate its long-term growth ambitions.
The Kirkland team included corporate lawyers Aprajita Dhundia, Ben Hai, Tom Lawless, Steven Hunter and Simran Johal and also Thomas Jemmett, Sarah Ullathorne, Will Seal and Luca Deon; tax lawyers James Morgan, Gal Shemer and Serene Ho; antitrust & competition lawyer Alasdair Balfour; and technology & IP transactions lawyers Emma Flett, Jenny Wilson and Shareen Dhillon.
