Overview

Joshua Kogan is a corporate partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. His practice regularly serves large and middle-market private equity/leverage buyout fund clients and their portfolio companies in connection with leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, mergers, venture capital/growth equity investments and restructurings. Josh has broad experience counseling clients in a variety of industries, including consumer and retail, automotive, financial services, food & beverage, healthcare, industrials, technology, software and telecommunications. Some of Josh’s clients include L Catterton, New Mountain Capital, Abry Partners, Blackstone Group, The Carlyle Group, KPS Capital Partners, Kohlberg & Company, Atlantic Street Capital, Freeman Spogli and Forward Consumer Partners.

Josh was recognized by The Deal as a finalist for “Consumer, Retail, Food & Beverage Dealmaker of the Year” in 2022. He was recognized as a Top Mid Cap M&A Lawyer in North America by MergerLinks’ in 2021 and has been recognized as a “Notable Practitioner” for M&A by IFLR1000 in every year since 2019. Josh was also recognized as an “Emerging Leader” by The M&A Advisor in 2016.

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Thought Leadership

Seminars

Moderator, Panel on Consumer, 2022 Wharton Private Equity & Venture Capital Conference, April 1, 2022 

Panelist, Q&A with Keynote Speaker Michael Chu, Columbia Business School’s 28th Annual Private Equity Virtual Conference, February 4, 2022

Moderator, Panel on Consumer, Wharton Private Equity & Venture Capital Virtual Conference, April 8, 2021

Recognition

The Deal, Consumer, Retail, Food & Beverage, Dealmaker of the Year, Finalist, 2022

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2004New York

Education

  • The George Washington University Law SchoolJ.D.with High Honors2003

    Order of the Coif

    George Washington Law Review

  • Northwestern UniversityB.A., Political Sciencewith Honors2000