Kirkland & Ellis LLP
04/27/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 04/27/2026 13:29
Kirkland Advises Cleco on Acquisition by Stonepeak and Bernhard Capital Partners
Kirkland & Ellis advised Cleco Group LLC on an agreement whereby Stonepeak and Bernhard Capital Partners will acquire Cleco from a consortium comprised of Macquarie Asset Management, British Columbia Investment Management Corporation and Manulife Investment Management. Headquartered in Pineville, Louisiana, Cleco is a regulated electric utility with 1,200 dedicated employees serving approximately 298,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in 24 Louisiana parishes.
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The Kirkland team included corporate lawyers John Pitts and Kersten Kober; debt finance lawyer Rohit Chaudhry; capital markets lawyer Julian Seiguer; and tax lawyers Lee Morlock and Joe Tobias.
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