Kirkland & Ellis counseled KPS Capital Partners, LP on its first and final closings of KPS Special Situations Fund V and KPS Mid-Cap Fund.  KPS Fund V and KPS Mid-Cap, with $7 billion in total investor capital commitments, will both focus on control investments in highly complex corporate carve-outs, turnarounds, restructurings, bankruptcies and other special situations. KPS Fund V, with a $5 billion target and a $6 billion self-imposed hard cap, and KPS Mid-Cap, with a $750 million target and a $1 billion self-imposed hard cap, were both oversubscribed. The capital commitments for the two funds were raised in approximately four weeks.  

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The Kirkland team was led by investment funds partners Erica Berthou and Carrie VanFleet, and included investment funds partner Aaron Schlaphoff; and tax partners David Grenker and Don Rocap. 

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