Gal Shemer

Since joining Kirkland, Gal has been involved in the following matters:

• Coller Capital on the investment in a continuation fund transaction involving Olyos.
• Malala Yousafzai on the launch of a women’s sports investment platform Recess Capital.
• Inflexion on the formation of the £2.3 billion Inflexion Continuation Fund I.
• Strategic Value Partners on €200 million preferred equity investment in Bjelin Group.
• Antin Infrastructure Partners on the closure of its fifth flagship fund raising above €10 billion.
• Apheon on the closing of multi-asset continuation fund for TMC and Haudecoeur.
• Ambienta on €500+ million Article 9 continuation fund.
• EQT on the €3 billion close of the EQT Future Fund.
• Inflexion Private Equity on the £975 million close of Inflexion Enterprise Fund VI.
• KLAR Partners on the close of KLAR Partners II at €870 million.
• Inflexion on the £1.8 billion close of Inflexion Partnership Capital Fund III.
• Bowmark Capital on £900 million seventh flagship fund.
• Actis, a global investor in sustainable infrastructure, in its sale to General Atlantic.
• Lion Capital on its €477 million GP-led restructuring of its 2007-and 2010-vintage funds into a continuation fund.
• HarbourVest Partners in connection with several continuation vehicle transactions.
• Lexington in connection with several secondary transactions.
• Triton Partners on the creation and close of Triton IV Continuation Fund.
• Coller Capital on the strategic minority investment from Hunter Point Capital.
• Oakley Capital on the financing for the investments in Phenna Group and CTS Group in transactions valued at over £1 billion.
• Triton Partners on completing the sale of a portfolio of four companies, Assemblin, EQOS, Flokk and Unica, to a newly-formed vehicle, Triton IV Continuation Fund, which closed at €1.63 billion.
• Synova in its sale of a minority interest to Bonaccord Capital Partners.

Prior to joining Kirkland, Gal was involved in the following matters:

• Apax in raising its buyout, digital and impact funds and in certain of its underlying investments.
• Blackstone in a wide variety of European and Asian real estate transactions.
• Bridgepoint on its initial public offering.
• Coller in raising its first credit secondary fund.
• CVC is a wide variety of European and Asian transactions and co-invest arrangements.
• EQT in raising its flagship buyout funds and its infrastructure funds.
• KKR in a wide variety of European transactions, including the carve-out of Wella from Coty Inc. and the acquisition of Viridor Ltd.