Amala Ejikeme

Amala Ejikeme is a partner in the Investment Funds Group at Kirkland & Ellis International LLP and focuses on advising European and global sponsors on the establishment of private funds pursuing a wide variety of investment strategies (including buyout, credit, digital assets, growth, impact, infrastructure, real estate and venture).

Amala's clients include Bridgepoint, EQT, Houghton Street Ventures, Nextech, Inflexion, JP Morgan and Vitruvian. He advises on traditional private equity fund structures, as well as structures incorporating long-dated, evergreen, open-ended, multiple currency, and levered arrangements. His practice also includes the formation of separately managed accounts, co-investments, as well as advising on carried interest arrangements, management company issues and extraordinary events (such as investor default and founder separations).

In May 2020, Amala was one of seven lawyers named in Private Equity International’s “Future Leader” list of 40 leading professionals working globally in private equity under the age of 40 and became among the youngest ever to be featured on such list. He has also been recognised as a “Leading Individual” by The Legal 500 and as “a rising star in the investment funds world” by Chambers and Partners, where clients have described him as "an all-round superstar", “brilliant technically”, “intellectually superb” and “easy to work with”. Amala has been quoted in a number of leading private equity and international publications (including Preqin, Private Equity International and The Wall Street Journal) and he has also spoken at industry conferences and other seminars (including at Harvard Law School).