Press Release

Kirkland Advises Vance Street Capital on Extension of Investment in Motion Dynamics with Closing of Second Continuation Fund

Kirkland & Ellis advised Vance Street Capital LLC (Vance Street), a Los Angeles based private equity firm, on its second single asset continuation fund – VSC Extended Value (EV) 2, LP (EV2) – backing Motion Dynamics Corporation (Motion Dynamics), a leading provider of highly engineered precision wire-based components primarily for the medical device, industrial and aerospace markets. EV2 was oversubscribed and is capitalized with commitments from both new and existing Vance Street LPs. Vance Street offered all LPs in Fund II the opportunity to reinvest the value of their investment.

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The Kirkland team was led by investment funds partners Mark Boyagi and John Kelley, corporate partners Jonathan Benloulou, Enoch Varner and investment fund associates Alex Roggio and Nick Allingham, and included tax partner Alec Campbell and associate Mike Shelton, investment funds partners Matt Cohen and Christine Matott and associate Casey Bond, antitrust partner Mike Thorpe, and financial services regulatory partner Zach Milloy and associate Sky Kim, and private equity strategy & markets partner Cory Baird.