Kirkland & Ellis advised I Squared Capital, a leading global infrastructure investment manager, and its ISQ Global Infrastructure Fund III in connection with a definitive agreement to acquire VLS Environmental Solutions (“VLS”) from Aurora Capital Partners, a leading middle-market private equity firm. VLS provides mission-critical, customized waste and specialty cleaning and repair services to a variety of highly regulated industries in North America. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Kyle Watson and John Pitts and associates Blake Longoria, Scott Myers, Alexiz Magro-Malo and Sara Phipps; debt finance partners Lucas Spivey and Jordan Roberts; and tax partners David Wheat and William Dong.