Kirkland Advises Arlington Capital Partners on Acquisition of Gooch & Housego PLC

Kirkland & Ellis advised Arlington Capital Partners on its acquisition of Gooch & Housego PLC, a global leader in the design and manufacturing of advanced photonic and optical components and subsystems serving the aerospace & defense, industrial and life sciences markets. The transaction completed on October 16, 2026.

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The Kirkland team included corporate lawyers Dipak Bhundia, Fiona Coffee, Douglas Ryder, David Higgins, Nikhil Mohindra, Raphael Khoo and Lucy Parton; debt finance lawyers Vanessa Xu, Conor O’Muiri, Tian Sun, Anastasis Voskos, Julia Mark and Thais Limani-Loeb; and tax lawyers Steven Cantor, Valentin Van de Walle, Michael Akpomiemie and Abigail Curry.