Hamed Meshki is a partner in Kirkland’s Los Angeles corporate group. His practice focuses on highly structured and complex business transactions, including mergers & acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, restructurings, recapitalizations and financings.
Hamed has structured, negotiated and completed transactions in a wide variety of industries, including apparel, broadcast media, consumer products, energy and oilfield services, gaming and lodging, healthcare, industrials and manufacturing, publishing, software and technology, sports and entertainment, and transportation and shipping.
Chambers USA has recognized Hamed in each of the 2015–2023 editions with clients commenting that he “excels at strategic thinking,” is “incredibly smart” and has “a very strong business sense” and with one client reporting that he is a true partner whose input they trust and value.
In 2020 and 2023, the Los Angeles Business Journal named Hamed to its list of “Leaders of Influence: Private Equity Investors & Advisors"; since 2019, the IFLR1000 recognized Hamed for Mergers & Acquisitions; in 2018, the Daily Journal recognized Hamed in its “Top 40 Under 40” list of lawyers in California; and in 2017, Private Funds Management recognized him in its global “30 Under 40” list, describing him as “a natural problem solver.”
In its 2017 Global Awards, Finance Monthly named Hamed the USA Private Equity Lawyer of the Year; and in its 2016 edition, The Legal 500 U.S. recognized Hamed and described him as “creative” and “commercially minded.” In 2013, The Recorder, a leading California legal publication, selected Hamed as one of “50 California Lawyers on the Fast Track.”
Transactions on which he has acted as lead counsel have been profiled by such leading media outlets as The Deal, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Reuters, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The American Lawyer and the Daily Journal. In 2019, the Association for Corporate Growth recognized Hamed’s M&A transaction for Anastasia Beverly Hills as its “Deal of the Year.”
