Kirkland & Ellis advised Nordic Capital, a leading European private equity investor, on the recently closed Nordic Capital Evolution Fund II. Raised within four months from launch with excess demand, the fund closed at its hard cap of EUR 2 billion and significantly exceeded its target of EUR 1.4 billion. The fund will focus on control buyouts and non-cyclical growth opportunities in Nordic Capital’s focus sectors, Healthcare, Technology & Payments, Financial Services and Services & Industrial Tech.
The Kirkland team included investment funds lawyers Amy Fox, Anand Damodaran, Andrea Renold, Agne Eriksson, Alex Clarke, Tom Clucas, Shivangi Agarwalla, Amr Jomaa, Alessia Muscas Henrye, Clara Lozano and Petrina Nomikou; tax lawyers David Grenker, Alex Cox, Ian Ferreira, Justin Barbosa, Keaton Bolton, Ted Meddick-Dyson, Ellen Ronayne and Natasha Haftke; financial services regulatory lawyers Thomas Woodhead, Josh Westerholm, Reed Schuster, Deirdre Haugh and Hannah Cloh; and ERISA lawyer Sabrina Glaser.
