Kirkland Advises Apax Funds’ $100 Million Investment in RapidSOS
Kirkland & Ellis represented certain investment funds advised by Apax Partners in their $100 million investment in RapidSOS, the public safety AI company, bringing RapidSOS’s total capital raised to over $450 million. The funding comes as RapidSOS recently crossed one billion emergencies supported. RapidSOS HARMONY, the first purpose-built AI for public safety, is designed to save critical time by automatically detecting emergencies, unifying real-time data and video streams, and coordinating a faster, more effective response.
The Kirkland team included corporate lawyers Adam Clifford, Jeremy Mandell and Kendall Maxwell; tax lawyers Sara Zablotney and Joe Riddle; executive compensation lawyers Rob Fowler, Lauren Cates, Kristen Tyler and Rebecca Arnall; employee benefits lawyers Matt Antinossi and Amin Hamza; employment & labor lawyers Madeline Klebanov, Jon Link and Cameron Bateman; technology & IP transactions lawyers Matt Lovell, Joanna Schlingbaum and Jeremy Korn; real estate lawyer Jennifer Sheehan; environmental transactions lawyers Jon Kidwell and Julie Molina; government contracts lawyers Rob Ryland and Dana Diaz; antitrust & competition lawyers Mike Thorpe and Maria Raptis; international trade & national security lawyers Ivan Schlager, Chad Crowell, Nick Perez and Oni Enkhbat; and debt finance lawyer Judah Batist.
