Kirkland & Ellis advised FTV Capital, a sector-focused investor in innovative companies in enterprise technology and services, financial services, and payments and transaction processing, on its $42.5 million minority growth equity investment in Lean Staffing Solutions, a leading provider of nearshore, expert outsourced solutions for transportation and logistics companies in the United States. As part of the transaction, FTV Capital’s managing partner Brad Bernstein, senior investment advisor Jerome Hershey, and vice president Brent Fierro will join Lean Staffing Solutions’ board of directors.
Read the press release from Lean Staffing Solutions
The Kirkland team was led by transactional partners Leo Greenberg and Andy Fleischman and associate Chris Burwell; tax partner David Kung and associate Kayla Ruben; executive compensation partners Matthew Shiels and Malhar Naik; employment & labor partner Michael Schulman; employee benefits partner Jeffrey Quinn; international trade partner Meghan Dolan; and technology & intellectual property transactions partner John Lynn and associate Seth Pritchard.
Where the legal industry reads first.
Enjoyed this article? Get the biggest legal industry updates, deals, appointments, insights and expert interviews in your inbox, free.
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.From Legal Desire
Is your firm the one being cited, or the one being skipped?
We ran the test. On several everyday legal questions, software companies are answering and law firms are not. We help firms fix that, and we build the technology behind the practice.
Lawyers and firms: get featured on Legal Desire
Share your deals, lateral moves, firm news and insights with 1M+ monthly readers: founders, law firm partners, general counsel and practising lawyers across the US, UK, EU and GCC.
Get featuredSubmit a press releaseThe advising firms, the named deal team, the value and the parties, with every other announced deal by the same firms and lawyers. Open the deal record
