Aseem Jha

Associate Technology & IP Transactions

Chicago +1 312 862 3528

Aseem Jha

Overview

Aseem Jha is an associate in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

Form Technologies, Inc., a leading global group of precision component manufacturers, in a $1.2 billion comprehensive recapitalization and debt exchange transaction that eliminated approximately $240 million of total funded debt, including full repayment of Form Technologies’ second lien term loan, partial repayment of the first lien term loan, and an amendment and 3.5-year maturity extension of the $733 million the company’s first lien revolver and term loan debt. The transaction was funded through the proceeds of a $300 million new money preferred equity investment from its existing equity holders and certain of its lenders.

Clinical ExternHonorable Judge Mark CovenQuincy District CourtSpring 2020

Summer Associate, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, 2019

City Councilman, City of West Lafayette, 2016–2017

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Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2021, Illinois
  • Registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Languages

  • English
  • Gujarati
  • Hindi
  • Spanish

Education

  • Harvard Law SchoolJ.D.2020

    Dean’s Scholar Prize – Constitutional Law

    Harvard Journal of Law and Technology

    Co-President, Harvard Tax Help

    Treasurer, Harvard Midwest Club

    Mediator, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Harvard Mediation Program

    HLS Admissions Fellow

    Harvard Law and Entrepreneurship Project

  • Purdue UniversityB.S., Electrical Engineering; Biology Minorwith Highest Distinction2017
    Phi Beta Kappa