Overview

Paul Drake is an associate in the Investment Funds Practice Group in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP and a member of the Firm’s Liquidity Solutions Team. He focuses his practice on representing private equity sponsors on structuring and executing strategic secondary transactions, including GP-led continuation funds, designed to provide liquidity to both sponsors and investors, and structuring, negotiating, forming and operating private equity and real estate funds, their management companies and co-investment programs.

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Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2023Illinois

Education

  • Georgetown University Law CenterJ.D.2023
  • Creighton UniversityM.S., Investment Management and Financial Analysis2017
  • Murray State UniversityM.B.A.2015
  • Nebraska Wesleyan UniversityB.S., Sociology2011