Press Release

Kirkland Advises Luminate on Close of Third Fund

Kirkland & Ellis advised Luminate Capital Partners on the close of its third fund, Luminate Capital Partners III LP, with $1 billion of committed capital from a broad group of global institutional investors.  The oversubscribed fund closed at its hard cap and above its $700 million target, bringing the firm’s total assets under management to $1.7 billion.

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The Kirkland team was led by investment funds partners Kevin Wessel and Nicholas DiCrescenzo and associates Michael Black and Rebecca Hart, and included tax partners Dan Meehan and Marguerite Lombardo and associate Allison Bray, employee benefits partner Elizabeth Dyer, and investment funds partner Phil Giglio.