Kirkland Advises Hildene Capital Management on Acquisition of SILAC

Kirkland & Ellis advised Hildene Capital Management, LLC, an $18+ billion credit-focused alternative asset manager, on a definitive agreement to acquire SILAC, Inc. (SILAC), the parent company of SILAC Insurance Company, a leading provider of fixed and fixed indexed annuity products in the U.S., for $550 million in cash.

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The Kirkland team included corporate lawyers Jeremy Watson, Jack Yamin, Jeremy Carroll, Kimberly Han, Anna Grilley, Ben Virant, Hunter Kodama and Matias Joseph; tax lawyers Polina Liberman and David Gilbert; executive compensation lawyers Rohit Nafday, Anthony Ji, Devin Kern and Rebekah Kostelak; investment funds regulatory lawyers Michael Chu, Daniel Kahl, Linda Dahl and Bryan McGee; investment funds lawyer Lindsay Trapp; and insurance transactions & regulatory lawyer Parimah Hassouri.