Kirkland Counsels Nautic Partners on Successful Closing of Eighth Fund at $900 Million

Kirkland & Ellis LLP advised Nautic Partners, LLC, a leading middle-market private equity firm that focuses on investments in the healthcare, industrial products, and outsourced services sectors, on the successful  completion of its fundraising for Nautic Partners VIII, which closed on its hard cap of $900 million. Nautic began formal fundraising in October 2015. To read more about the deal, please click here.

The Kirkland team is led by private funds partners Bruce Ettelson and John Muno, and associates Seth Fishman, Matthew White and Noah Mullin; investment management partners Scott Moehrke and Corey Zarse; tax partner Donald Rocap and associate Joel Peters-Fransen; and employee benefits partner Laura Bader and associate Erica Lauren Buerger.

Kirkland’s Private Funds Practice is one of the largest and most experienced sponsor-side practices in the world. Since 1995, Kirkland's private funds lawyers have represented approximately 430 unique private equity sponsors in more than 800 total funds, raising more than $570 billion.