Kirkland Advises Vista Equity Partners on Launch of Vector Core Compute
Kirkland & Ellis advised Vista Equity Partners on a joint venture with Cambium Capital to launch Vector Core Compute (VC2), the world’s first commercially-available enterprise inference cloud for disaggregated inference leveraging technologies across SambaNova, Intel and NVIDIA. Backed by a $3.5 billion compute commitment to SambaNova and support from Intel, VC2 launched live from the Los Angeles facility. Additional sites are in development in Chicago, Seattle and Phoenix, and planned across 50+ U.S. metros. VC2’s distributed deployment model is designed to scale into strategic markets globally, with additional regions informed by strategic partners and customer demand.
The Kirkland team included corporate lawyers Allan Kirk, Melissa Kalka and Reese Gwin; investment funds lawyer Daniel Lavon-Krein; and tax lawyers Joseph Tootle, Brian Senie and Ally Nelson.
