Press Release

Kirkland Advises Thoma Bravo in the Final Closing of its Fund XII

Kirkland & Ellis LLP advises leading private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo in the formation of Thoma Bravo Fund XII, its most recent flagship fund. The fund closed at $7.6 billion, reaching its hard cap, and was significantly oversubscribed. More information is available here.

The Kirkland team was led by investment funds partners John Muno and Bruce Ettelson, and included tax partners William Welke and Daniel Meehan, and investment funds associates Katie St. Peters, Kevin Wessel, Samuel Scarcello and Patrick Valenti.

Kirkland & Ellis is a global leader in providing sophisticated advice to private investment fund sponsors and select institutional investors with respect to all major alternative investment strategies. In the past three years alone, Kirkland has advised 280 private investment fund sponsors, raising more than 380 funds and representing more than $305 billion of capital commitments.