Press Release

Kirkland Advises Private Equity Consortium in Acquisition of DuPont Clean Tech Business for $510 Million

Kirkland & Ellis represented a private equity consortium consisting of BroadPeak Global LP, Asia Green Fund and The Saudi Arabian Industrial Investments Company on its acquisition of the Clean Technologies business of DuPont de Nemours, Inc. for $510 million. As part of the transaction, Tensile Capital Management LP is providing preferred equity financing. 

Read BroadPeak’s press release

The Kirkland team representing the consortium was led by transactional partners Bill Benitez and Erik Shoemaker and associates Mark Kunzman and Ryan McNamara; investment funds partner Matt Nadworny and associate Samara Sanderson; debt finance partner Manas Chandrashekar and associate Yang Zhao; international trade and national security partner Mario Mancuso and associate Matt O’Hare; and tax partners Mark Dundon and Bill Dong.