Kirkland Advises Cornerstone Robotics on US$700 Million Strategic Investment From Medtronic
Kirkland & Ellis advised Cornerstone Robotics on a landmark US$700 million strategic investment from Medtronic (NYSE: MDT), a global leader in healthcare technology. The transaction was announced on September 1, 2026.
The investment marks the strategic partnership between Cornerstone Robotics and Medtronic with Medtronic’s rights to distribute Cornerstone Robotics’ SentireTM surgical system in select markets outside the U.S. This transaction represents one of the largest recent single strategic investments in the Asia-Pacific surgical robotics sector.
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The Kirkland team included capital markets lawyers Mengyu Lu and Ashlee Wu, corporate lawyers Joey Chau, Leo Zhou, Brian Ho, Louis Zhou, Estelle Lu and Yulin Du; technology & IP transactions lawyers Min Wang, Emma Flett, Alex Barata, Jacqueline Clover, James Delacenserie, Shareen Dhillon, Danielle Lee and Cordelia Mikita; antitrust & competition lawyers Alasdair Balfour, Matthew Sinclair-Thomson and Maud Lesaffre; international trade & national security lawyers John Kabealo, Luci Hague, Oni Enkhbat and Nick Perez; and healthcare transactions lawyer Rob Kantrowitz.
