Kirkland Advises Uplift Investors on Close of $670 Million Inaugural Fund
Kirkland & Ellis advised Uplift Investors, a business model-centric private equity firm focused on services investing, on the close of its inaugural fund with $670 million in capital commitments. Founded in March 2025 by Will Hausberg, Doug Rosenstein, and Brad Skaf, who have invested together on every deal for the last decade, Uplift was built around a distinct investment philosophy: business model first, sector expertise always. The firm's proprietary 5-5-5 Framework targets companies at the intersection of five scalable business models and five services sectors, supported by five Value Creation Centers that enable Uplift to apply a repeatable value creation approach across multiple industries.
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The Kirkland team included investment funds lawyers Jeff Kaplan, Stacia Lee, Sam Scarcello, Samantha Rose, Muskan Sharma, Maria Fay Karras and Crystal Tan; investment funds regulatory lawyers Nabil Sabki, Jasmina Resic, Hannah Cloh and Annie O’Keefe; tax lawyers Dan Meehan, Olesia Zakon and Lauren Lin; investment funds ERISA lawyer Christine Matott; debt finance lawyer Aditi Iyer; financial services regulatory lawyers Julian Hui and Vilian Mladenov; sustainability lawyers Mary Beth Houlihan and Annah Akhoun-Murat; technology & IP transactions lawyers Seth Pritchard, John Lynn, Alex Barata and Reilly Townsend; and employment & labor lawyers R.D. Kohut and Jackson Phinney.
