Kirkland & Ellis advised KKR as part of a consortium of institutional investors, led by Sixth Street, that has agreed to acquire home improvement lending platform GreenSky and associated loan assets from The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2024, subject to standard closing conditions.
The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Daniel Guerin, Valentine Bleicher and Jennifer Perkins, with support from corporate partner Hayley Hollender and associate Olivia Castor; investment funds partners Nicole Washington, Erica Temel and Charles Tanenbaum and associates Ugo Nwasike, William Ballentine and Zachary Van Kovering; banking regulatory partner Edwin del Hierro; antitrust & competition partners Ian John, Shahrzad Sadjadi and Paula Riedel and associate Ben Feis; capital markets partner Ross Leff; and tax partners Mike Beinus, Adam Kool and Joseph Tootle.
