Kirkland Represents General Motors in New Investment Round for Cruise
Kirkland & Ellis advised General Motors (NYSE:GM) on a new investment round for Cruise. Microsoft will join General Motors, Honda and institutional investors in a combined new equity investment of more than $2 billion in Cruise, bringing the post-money valuation of Cruise to $30 billion. In addition, as part of the long-term strategic relationship with Microsoft, Cruise and General Motors will work with Microsoft as their preferred public cloud providers. The transaction will help accelerate the commercialization of Cruise’s all-electric, self driving vehicles.
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The Kirkland team was led by transactional partners Carlo Zenkner, Peter Martelli and Jonathan Davis and tax partners Jared Rusman and Ryan Roberts.