Kirkland Advises Winterbird Partners on Investment in Emergent Software
Kirkland & Ellis advised Winterbird Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm, on a growth equity investment in Emergent Software, LLC, a premier Microsoft services partner specializing in data modernization, AI deployment, cloud transformation, application development and managed services. Founded in 2015, Emergent helps enterprise clients modernize mission-critical technology across the Microsoft platform, serving high-stakes end markets including manufacturing, healthcare, finance and regulated industries. The investment will support Emergent's next phase of growth, including expanding the team, building additional service capabilities, entering new geographies and executing strategic M&A.
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The Kirkland team included corporate lawyers Christian Atwood, Alex Dayneka-Hayes, Chris Lubrano, Ross Taylor and Caroline Kurani; debt finance lawyers Grant Bowen, Julia Class and Jeffrey Feldmann; tax lawyers Vincent Thorn and Daniel Henry; and investment funds lawyers Ed Kirby and Kayla Duffey.
