Overview

Ian Hesterly is a corporate associate in the Salt Lake City office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Ian represents private equity funds, their portfolio companies and other clients in complex domestic and international business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, growth equity financings, divestitures and other general corporate matters.

Ian has represented clients in transactions ranging in size from $40 million to more than $4 billion for clients such as Ares, Blackstone, Thoma Bravo, Morgan Stanley, WeWork, GTCR, Warburg Pincus, Aterian Investment Partners, John Deere Capital Corporation, Strategic Value Partners, TA Associates, Mercato Partners, Northwestern Mutual and Olympus Partners, among others, as well as many of their portfolio companies. Over the course of his career, Ian has executed transactions across a variety of industries, including software and technology, healthcare, energy, financial services, food and beverage and manufacturing, among others.

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Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2022Utah
  • 2021California

Education

  • Columbia Law School2021

    Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar

    Columbia Business Law Review

  • Brigham Young UniversityB.S., Business Strategy2017