Kirkland & Ellis represented Nautic Partners, LLC, a leading middle-market private equity firm that pursues a thematic and proactive investment strategy within the healthcare, industrials and services sectors, on the formation and final closing of Nautic Partners XI (Fund XI). Fund XI was oversubscribed at its hard cap of $4.5 billion of limited partner commitments, surpassing its target of $3.75 billion. Fund XI is Nautic’s largest fund to date, receiving strong support from both long-standing and notable new institutional investors across North, Central and South America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
The Kirkland team included investment funds lawyers Michael Snow, Alyssa Jutovsky, John Muno, Reed Schuster, Liza Miadzvedskaya, Devon Salge, Hannah Cloh, Benno Sauermann, Ari Goldman, Samantha Rose and Dylan White; tax lawyers Christopher Odell, Brandon Short and Christian Ekins; and investment funds ERISA lawyer Christine Matott.