Michael F. Black is a corporate partner in Kirkland’s market-leading Investment Funds Practice Group. Michael’s practice focuses on the formation, structuring and operation of private investment funds, including buyout funds, growth equity funds, search funds, debt funds, real estate funds and single asset funds and special purpose vehicles. Michael works extensively with well-established managers as well as first-time fund sponsors and emerging managers while structuring, marketing, negotiating and closing complex investment funds. Michael advises sponsors on firm-wide and fund-specific economic, governance, transactional and operational matters, including carry and fee plans, new product development, co-investments, continuation vehicles, secondaries, investment warehousing, cross fund transactions, investor relations, regulatory compliance and general corporate matters. In addition, Michael also focuses on representing private equity sponsors in connection with the organization, structuring, and operation of their management companies.
Representative Clients
Aria Growth Partners, Beecken Petty O’Keefe & Company, Chicago Pacific Founders, CID Capital, Eagle Merchant Partners, EW Healthcare Partners, Hidden Harbor Capital Partners, KLH Capital, Luminate Capital Partners, Mill Point Capital Partners, NexPhase Capital, O2 Investment Partners, Primus Capital, Principal Real Estate, Provenance, Shore Capital Partners, Soundcore Capital Partners, Treville Capital Management, Two Roads Partners, Tyree D’Angelo Partners, Victor Capital Partners, Victory Park Capital, Warren Equity Partners.
