Kirkland Advises Luminate Capital on Strategic Growth Investment in Facilities Management Express

Kirkland & Ellis advised Luminate Capital Partners on a strategic growth investment in Facilities Management Express (FMX), a market-leading facilities and asset management operating platform. Luminate joins existing investor Five Elms Capital, which will retain a significant stake in the business. FMX serves over 2,600 schools, universities, municipalities and other commercial facilities to optimize mission-critical infrastructure performance and capital planning.

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The Kirkland team included corporate lawyers Rodin Hai-Jew, Michael White, Mohammed Banjari, Christina Beyer, Luke Pinkston and Saabhir Singh Gill; tax lawyers Devin Heckman and Nithya Sheshadri; technology & IP transactions lawyers Vlad Khodosh, Malia Taqbeem and Reed Patterson; executive compensation lawyers Jack Stratton and Rebecca Arnall; employment & labor lawyers Jackie Heffernan and Paul Vasiloff; employee benefits lawyers Jack Bernstein and Annika Morin; real estate lawyers Rob Miceli and Ben Stoyenko; international trade & national security lawyers Luci Hague and Bryan Applefeld; environmental transactions lawyers Paul Tanaka, Mary-Michael Robertson and Jacob Manheim; government contracts lawyers Boyd Greene and Dana Diaz; and antitrust & competition lawyers Matt Wheatley, Jeff Ayer and Jean Hyun.