Press Release

Kirkland Advises Arsenal in Raising of $2.36B for Fund V

Kirkland & Ellis LLP counseled Arsenal Capital Partners, a leading specialized private equity firm focused on middle-market specialty industrials and healthcare companies, on the raising of $2.36 billion of committed capital for Arsenal Capital Fund V LP.  The firm’s previous fund closed in 2016 with $1.3 billion of committed capital. 

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The Kirkland team was led by investment funds partners Warren Goodworth and Chris Kallos and associate Kevin Wessel; and included investment funds associates Ed Kirby, Rachel O’Brien, Marisa Pogofsky, Allison Schwartz and Brian Allen; tax partners Dan Meehan and Meredith Levy and associate Kyle Litfin; investment funds partners Robert Sutton and Elizabeth Richards; and employee benefits partner Liz Dyer and associate Erica Rozow.

Kirkland is a global leader in providing sophisticated advice to investment fund sponsors, institutional investors and other market participants in the alternative investment fund space. Kirkland offers clients the unsurpassed resources of a large, integrated, multidisciplinary, global team located across offices in the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific. With more than 380 dedicated Investment Funds attorneys, few firms approach the breadth, depth and scope of Kirkland’s experience in investment funds legal services. Since January 2016, Kirkland has advised over 400 funds with total capital commitments in excess of $650 billion.