Press Release

Kirkland & Ellis Announces New Partners

Kirkland & Ellis is pleased to announce that 83 attorneys will be promoted to partner effective October 1, 2014.

The names, practice groups and office locations of the attorneys follow.
Kirkland & Ellis is a 1,600-attorney law firm representing global clients in complex litigation, dispute resolution and arbitration, corporate and tax, restructuring, and intellectual property matters. The Firm has offices in Beijing, Chicago, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Shanghai and Washington, D.C.

Beijing

Name

Practice Area

Mengyu Lu

Corporate

Chicago

Name

Practice Area

Matthew S. Arenson

Corporate

Rana Barakat

Litigation

Kevin R. Bettsteller

Corporate

Paul Daniel Bond

Intellectual Property

Elizabeth A. Cutri

Intellectual Property

Casey R. Fronk

Litigation

Leslie S. Garthwaite

Litigation

Eugene Goryunov

Intellectual Property

William A. Guerrieri

Restructuring

Matthew R. Hays

Corporate

Shay-Ann Heiser Singh

Litigation

Zachary D. Holmstead

Litigation

Charles J. Kalil, II

Litigation

Benjamin T. Kurtz

Litigation

Daniel D. Lewis

Intellectual Property

Aaron Lorber

Intellectual Property

Simeon G. Papacostas

Intellectual Property

Michael W. Perl

Corporate

Ferlillia V. Roberson

Intellectual Property

Luke C. Ruse

Litigation

Gregory C. Ryckman

Litigation

Hari Santhanam

Intellectual Property

Alec Solotorovsky

Litigation

Jessica L. Staiger

Litigation

Brad Weiland

Restructuring

David M. Wolff

Real Estate

Hong Kong

Name

Practice Area

Joey Chau

Corporate

Damian Jacobs

Corporate

Soo-Yien Khor

Corporate

Steve Lin

Corporate

Peng Qi

Corporate

London

Name

Practice Area

Oliver Currall

Tax

Emma L. Flett

Intellectual Property

Andrew Hagan

Corporate

Mark Knight

Restructuring

Mateja Maher

Corporate

Matthew Merkle

Corporate

Bryan Robson

Debt Finance

Jonathan Tadd

Corporate

Los Angeles

Name

Practice Area

Erin C. Kolter

Intellectual Property

Christopher M. Lawless

Intellectual Property

Sharre Lotfollahi

Intellectual Property

Alice Yuan

Corporate

Munich

Name

Practice Area

Dr. Marcus Klie

Corporate

New York

Name

Practice Area

Devora W. Allon

Litigation

Jared Bárcenas

Intellectual Property

Jon R. Carter

Intellectual Property

Andrew C. Day

Corporate

Charles R. Fellers

Corporate

Warren Haskel

Litigation

Suzi Sabogal

Executive Compensation

Leslie M. Schmidt

Intellectual Property

Nicholas Schwartz

Corporate

Jennifer B. Sheehan

Real Estate

Kristin Sheffield-Whitehead

Litigation

Eric D. Sievertsen

Corporate

Vincent P. Thorn

Tax

Paul Watt*

Corporate

Palo Alto

Name

Practice Area

Alex S. Kaufman

Corporate

Brian W. Lee

Intellectual Property

San Francisco

Name

Practice Area

Akshay Deoras

Intellectual Property

Vlad J. Kroll

Corporate

Matt Nadworny

Corporate

Priya Purnachandra Pai

Corporate

Patricia Ring

Trusts and Estates

Shanghai

Name

Practice Area

Cheryl Yuan

Corporate

Tiana Zhang**

Litigation

Washington, D.C.

Name

Practice Area

K. Winn Allen

Litigation

Heather A. Bloom

Litigation

Marin Boney

Antitrust and Competition

Anders P. Fjellstedt

Intellectual Property

Jonathan F. Ganter

Litigation

Michael A. Glick

Litigation

Liam P. Hardy

Litigation

Jonathan D. Janow

Litigation

Ebony Sunala Johnson

Litigation

Jonathan E. Kidwell

Environmental Transactions

Joseph R. Oliveri

Litigation

Michael A. Petrino

Litigation

Michael Podberesky

Litigation

Tia T. Trout-Perez

Litigation

Sarah Hawkins Warren

Litigation

* Not yet permitted to practice in New York

** Promoted from Of Counsel or Counsel to partner.

NOTE: In general, the admission date will be October 1, 2014, or such later date when any necessary regulatory requirements have been complied with.