Matthew O'Brien is a corporate partner in the Firm's Chicago office. Matthew represents private equity sponsors and public and private company clients in mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, going-private transactions, joint ventures, divestitures, private financings, recapitalizations and restructurings, and in related corporate governance, executive compensation and general corporate matters. Matthew joined Kirkland in 2006, has been a partner since 2012 and was selected by The Deal as a “Rising Star” M&A attorney in 2019.
Matthew has handled such matters on behalf of, among others, private equity sponsors Apax Partners, Bain Capital, BC Partners, Beecken Petty O'Keefe & Company, Chicago Growth Partners, CHS Capital, CPPIB, Golden Gate Capital, GTCR, Hellman & Friedman, Lee Equity Partners, Madison Dearborn Partners, New Mountain Capital, Partners Group, Platinum Equity, Sycamore Partners, The Riverside Company, Vista Equity Partners and Willis Stein & Partners, as well as many of their portfolio companies, in addition to handling acquisition, divestiture and investment transactions for CME Group, ConvergEx, Duff & Phelps and The Royal Bank of Scotland.
