Debevoise & Plimpton LLP has advised KKR in the formation of KKR Global Infrastructure Investors V (“Fund V”), a $19.2 billion Core+ infrastructure fund focused on investing in critical infrastructure assets and businesses primarily in North America and Western Europe. Fund V, the fifth vintage in KKR’s Global Infrastructure Strategy, is KKR’s largest infrastructure fund raised to date. For more information, see the company’s press release.
The Debevoise team was led by investment management partner Andrew Ford and included partners Fatema Al-Arayedh, Jin-Hyuk Jang, Justin Storms and Patricia Volhard, counsel Robert Hubley and Eric Olmesdahl, associates Julia Adams, Neel Bakshi, Ali Curry, Emma Hauber, Carly Hill, Leor Leben, Julia Glazer Needle, Faith Pappalardo, John Simmons, Emma Street, James Tai and Eike Björn Weidner and law clerk Allie Kuritzky, tax partners Stephen Jordan and Samuel Krawiecz and associates Jeannie Le, Sophie Mirzaian, Elliott Tuchman and Miriam Yeger, corporate staff attorney Zachary Dukoff, and investment regulatory partner Sheena Paul.