Latham & Watkins Advises Graham Partners on US$1.8 Billion Fund Formation

Graham Partners, Inc., a private investment firm targeting advanced manufacturing companies, has announced the final closing of its sixth buyout fund, Graham Partners VI, L.P., (along with its parallel partnerships, the Fund, or Graham VI) at over US$1.8 billion in total commitments. Graham VI was oversubscribed and closed at its hard cap, with commitments from a diverse group of new and existing investors, as well as over US$100 million from the Graham team and family. Through Graham VI, the firm will continue to deploy its focused strategy of partnering with technology-driven, advanced manufacturing companies in the North American middle-market that are spurring innovation across three core subsectors — industrial technology, medical devices and life sciences, and food and consumer manufacturing.

Latham & Watkins LLP advised Graham Partners on the fund formation with an investment funds team led by New York partners Edward Nelson and Oliver Prakash-Jenkins, with associates Michelle Aizin, Ben Zang, and Noah Morris. Advice was also provided on US fund regulatory matters by Washington, D.C. partner Jamie Lynn Walter, with associates Daniel Filstrup and Ruchi Sharma; on European fund regulatory matters by London partner Clare Scott, with associate Aakanksha Sinha; and on tax matters by New York partner Gregory Hannibal, with associates Arash Lotfi and Michael Syku; and on fund finance matters by Washington, D.C. partner Benjamin Berman, with associate Adam Deutsch.