Kirkland Advises Littlejohn & Co. on Close of Continuation Vehicle

Kirkland & Ellis advised Littlejohn & Co., LLC, a private investment firm, on the close of a continuation vehicle anchored by the Valcourt Group, a leading provider of building envelope maintenance and restoration services for mid- and high-rise properties. The transaction provides optional liquidity to existing fund investors while enabling Littlejohn to continue its partnership with Valcourt during the company's next phase of growth. Carlyle AlpInvest served as lead investor in the transaction, with further participation from a group of blue-chip institutional investors. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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The Kirkland team included investment funds lawyers Eric Fischer, Carrie VanFleet, Josh Rabinovits, Garrett Lorentz, Sam Ash, Nathan Howe, Yemi Adediran, Mina Mihaljcic, Brandon Barrett, Henry Greco, Ashley Lee, Javi Piñeiro, Joshua Neuhaus, Jarvis Yau, Nicole Jodan, Stefan Nesic and Sean Grishpan; corporate lawyers Jonathan Benloulou, Alex Mieszkalski, Anna Geml, Hayley Hollender, Michael Fiedorowicz, Maddie Pollack and Ted Orr; debt finance lawyers Scott Rolnik, Judson Oswald, Matthew Park and Abi Vaseeharan; executive compensation lawyers Michael Falk and Lindsey Buckley; investment funds ERISA lawyer Sabrina Glaser; tax lawyers David Grenker and Jeremy Miller; investment funds regulatory lawyers Alpa Patel, Xiao-Hong Jing and Michael Kang; international trade & national security lawyer Luci Hague; and antitrust & competition lawyers Kelsey Laugel and Joe Krisko.