Kirkland advised KKR and its portfolio company CIRCOR International, Inc., a provider of mission critical flow control products and services for the industrial and aerospace and defense markets, on the sale of CIRCOR’s severe-service industrial valve providers DeltaValve and TapcoEnpro to SCF Partners. Their products are used in more than 50 countries to enhance automation and employee safety, reduce equipment failures, improve process reliability and efficiency. The transaction was announced September 3, 2024. Financial terms were not disclosed.

The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Jennifer Perkins and Steven Choi and associates Natalia Halista, Logan Cotton and Bria Manlove; debt finance partners Adam Shapiro and Taylor Andrews and associates Kelsey Fuller and Tommy Kagerer; technology & IP transactions partners Joanna Schlingbaum, Shellie Freedman and Seth Traxler and associates Leonor Suarez and Josh Ellis; and tax partners Vivek Ratnam and Mike Beinus.