Kirkland Advises Blackstone on Launch of Enterprise AI Services Firm with Anthropic and Consortium

Kirkland & Ellis advised Blackstone on the formation of a new AI-native enterprise services firm that will work with companies to bring Claude into their core business operations. Blackstone is partnering with Anthropic, Hellman & Friedman and Goldman Sachs on the launch of the new firm, which will act as a standalone entity with Anthropic engineering and partnership resources embedded directly within its team and backed by a consortium of leading alternative asset managers. The company will serve as an accelerant in bringing AI solutions to mid-size companies, helping to drive adoption across an initial customer base of both portfolio companies of the investment firms and independent companies who can benefit from the platform.

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The Kirkland team included corporate lawyers Lauren Colasacco, Alan Heisman, Aida Kimiagar, Sneha Darbha and Aaron Eisen; technology IP & transactions lawyers Seth Traxler, Amber Harezlak and Abby O'Neill; capital markets lawyer Josh Korff; tax lawyers Mike Beinus, Vivek Ratnam and Jeremy Miller; and executive compensation lawyers Michael Krasnovsky, Matthew Wood and Nick Carter.