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Kirkland & Ellis Represents Procuritas in Closing of €200 million Nordic Buyout Fund

Kirkland & Ellis International LLP client Procuritas, a Nordic buyout firm, held the final close of its latest fund, Procuritas Capital Investors V, LP, on 3 July 2012. The fund closed at €200 million following a five-month fundraising period and was substantially oversubscribed. The Kirkland team that represented Procuritas was led by private funds partner Kate Downey and included associates Alexandra Conroy and Aran Randhawa.
 
The Private Funds Practice at Kirkland & Ellis is one of the largest and most experienced sponsor-side practices in the world, with nearly 100 attorneys focused on private funds across nine offices in six time zones. Kirkland has represented more than 300 unique private fund sponsors in raising nearly $410 billion in new capital for more than 600 funds since 1995, and regularly represents leading institutional investors in connection with their investments in private funds.

About Kirkland & Ellis International LLP
 
Kirkland & Ellis (www.kirkland.com) is a 1,500-attorney law firm representing global clients in complex private funds, corporate/M&A, restructuring and tax, litigation and dispute resolution/arbitration, and intellectual property and technology matters. The Firm has offices in London, Chicago, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Shanghai and Washington, D.C.
 
About Procuritas
 
Procuritas (www.procuritas.se) is a private equity firm that was founded in 1986 and specialises in mid-market buyouts in the Nordic region. The team comprises six partners, Mattias Feiff, Erik Fougner, Tomas Johansson, Hans Wikse, Mikael Ahlström and Björn Lindberg. Procuritas completed Sweden's first public-to-private buyout in 1986 and has subsequently raised and advised a series of mid-market buyout funds in the region.