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Kirkland & Ellis: Days → minutes for fund-formation analysis and drafting, the firm says

Kirkland & Ellis (legal services) reported this on 3 Aug 2026 in earnings call (source). It belongs to the data and ontology layer.

What they built

The Fund Formation Engine on Palantir AIP and Ontology, bringing institutional knowledge, data and workflows for private-equity fundraising (documents, side letters, obligations, closings, compliance) into one system for every lawyer.

The result

Analysis, discussion and drafting work that took a lawyer days now takes minutes (firm statement quoted on Palantir's earnings call).

The number covers fund-formation workflow; volume or headcount figures disclosed is not reported.

“What used to take days for a lawyer to analyze, discuss, and draft now happens in minutes,” Kirkland & Ellis said.

The layer: data and ontology

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