Kirkland Represents Warburg Pincus on its $2.2 Billion Multi-Asset Continuation Fund

Kirkland & Ellis advised private equity global growth investor Warburg Pincus on the first close of its first multi-asset continuation fund transaction, with over $2.2 billion in commitments. The fund and related transaction were co-led and fully capitalized by HarbourVest Partners, Ardian and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. The lead investors underwrote the entirety of the raise with no required syndication. The fund includes Warburg Pincus portfolio companies that are diversified across geographies and industry sectors. The closing of the continuation fund was announced December 16, 2024.

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The Kirkland team included investment funds lawyers Mark Boyagi, Patrick Vinett, Rob Blaustein, Kevin Lam, Andrew Wright, Mike Ramsey, Richard Hughes, Alex Weinman, Thomas Westbrook, Indira Selimovic, Polina Liebling, Anne Hicks, Julia Deng and Tracy Lu; corporate lawyers Adam Larson, Jess Lepper, Austin Johnson, Jack Aguillard, Cason Liles and Luke Garoufalis; tax lawyers David Grenker, Meredith Levy and Brittany Nguyen; investment funds regulatory lawyers Norm Champ, Alpa Patel, Xiao-Hong Jing, Natalia Pszenny, Chesley Swann, Christopher Hsu and Julian Hui; ERISA lawyer Sabrina Glaser; and antitrust & competition lawyers Matthew Sinclair-Thomson, Mike Thorpe and Sion Davies.