Katie Ledbetter is an associate in the Washington D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. She is part of Kirkland’s Merger & Acquisitions Clearance Group, where she focuess on mergers on other transactions before the United State Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC), with an emphasis on filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Antitrust Improvement Act.