Press Mentions
Featured in several articles, including:
Top 50 Big Law Innovators of the Last 50 Years
The American Lawyer — 8/1/13
Chicago Attorney Helped Define, Refine Private Equity Sector
Chicago Daily Law Bulletin — 7/28/05
In the News
Chicago Daily Law Bulletin — 6/21/05
M&A Pioneers Adapt to the Ever-Changing Game
Chicago Lawyer — 1/1/05
Trading Places, Changing Paces
Crain's Chicago Business — 11/15/04
Jack Levin, Senior Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
LawCrossing.com — 4/19/04
Workshop Focuses on Salvaging Investments Gone Sour
The Wall Street Journal — 4/1/02
60 Seconds With Jack S. Levin of Kirkland & Ellis
ePrairie.com — 5/31/01
Institutionalizing a Legendary Venture Capital Practice
Of Counsel — 11/3/97
Authored or co-authored several books:
Structuring Venture Capital, Private Equity, and Entrepreneurial Transactions
(1 volume, 1,400 page treatise co-authored by Jack S. Levin along with Donald E. Rocap, first published 1994, updated and republished annually) Wolters Kluwer Law & Business - most recent edition September 2023
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Buyouts
(5 volume, 5,000 page treatise co-authored by Jack S. Levin along with Donald E. Rocap and the late Prof. Martin D. Ginsburg, first published 1989, updated and republished semi-annually) Wolters Kluwer Law & Business - most recent edition June 2024
To order either of these publications in online, hard copy or CD-ROM version, contact Wolters Kluwer Law & Business at (800) 638-8437 or visit their website at https://lrus.wolterskluwer.com/store/
Authored or co-authored numerous articles, books, and chapters:
Pointers for PE Firms — Post Sun Capital ERISA Ruling (with Jeffrey Quinn and Alexandra Mihalas)
Law360 — 11/1/2012
Carried Interest Legislative Proposals and Enterprise Value Tax (along with Donald E. Rocap and William R. Welke)
Tax Notes — 11/1/2010
The Jobs Act's Harsh New Deferred Compensation Rules (along with Donald E. Rocap and Keith E. Villmow)
Tax Notes — 9/12/2005
Divide and Conquer: Why and How to Bifurcate Your LBO's Equity Structure (along with Sandy E. Perl and Shelly M. Hirschtritt)
The Venture Capital Review — Spring 2004
Revisiting Golden Parachutes (along with Donald E. Rocap and the late Prof. Martin D. Ginsburg)
Tax Notes — 1/12/2004
Navigating Down Round Financings: A Guide for VCs (along with Margaret A. Gibson and Mariano E. Martinez)
The Venture Capital Review — Summer 2003
Two-part article: Triple Whammy (Part I), Down Not Out (Part II)
The Daily Deal — 1/30/2003 & 1/31/2003
What Every Private Equity Professional Must Know About Sarbanes-Oxley Reforms (along with James S. Rowe and Robert M. Hayward)
The Venture Capital Review — Fall/Winter 2002
How CEOs, CFOs Can Avoid Criminal Exposure Under Sarbanes-Oxley Certification Provisions (along with Craig Primis and Laurence Urgenson)
Business Crimes Bulletin — October 2002
Investment Adviser Regulation of Private Equity Fund General Partner (along with Scott A. Moehrke)
The Venture Capital Review — Summer 2002
Integrated Corporate Acquisitions: Comments on Rev. Rul. 2001-46 (along with the late Prof. Martin D. Ginsburg)
Tax Notes — 10/22/01
Integrated Acquisitive Reorganizations (along with the late Prof. Martin D. Ginsburg)
Tax Notes — 6/11/01
Surprising Tax Issues for Shareholder-Execs Receiving Unvested Stock for Vested Stock in Reorg (along with Donald E. Rocap and the late Prof. Martin D. Ginsburg)
Tax Notes — 12/4/00
How VC/PE Funds Can Deliver Special LTCG Tax Benefits to Individual LPs and GPs (along with Jeffrey T. Sheffield, Donald E. Rocap and William R. Welke)
The Venture Capital Review — Fall 2000
Structuring a Buyout -- What Every VC Professional Must Know
The Venture Capital Review — Fall 1999
Five New Tax Developments Private Equity Investors Must Know in Structuring a Buyout or Venture Investment (along with William R. Welke)
The Venture Capital Review — Spring 1999
Structuring Buyouts for "Recap" Accounting -- Maximizing Target's Post-Acquisition Book Earnings and IPO Value (along with William R. Welke)
The Venture Capital Review — Spring 1998
Evaluating Proposals to Tax Intragroup Spin-Offs (along with the late Prof. Martin D. Ginsburg)
Tax Notes — 7/14/97
Important Fund Formation Developments -- Or Five Things Every Private Equity Fund Sponsor Must Know (along with Bruce I. Ettelson and Donald E. Rocap)
The Venture Capital Review — 1997
The Subchapter S One-Class-of-Stock Regulation (along with the late Prof. Martin D. Ginsburg)
Tax Notes — 10/9/95
Code Section 162(m) - $1 Million Deduction Limit on Executive Compensation (along with the late George B. Javaras and William R. Welke)
Tax Notes — 5/9/94
A Transactional Guide to New Code Section 197 (along with Donald E. Rocap)
Tax Notes — 10/25/93
Code Section 162(m) - New $1 Million Deduction Limitation on Executive Compensation (along with the late George B. Javaras and William R. Welke)
Tax Notes — 10/4/93
Final Section 1504(a)(5) Regulation - Effect of Subsidiary's Options, Warrants, and Convertible Debentures on Subsidiary's Affiliated Group Membership (along with Patrick C. Gallagher and William R. Welke)
Tax Notes — 4/5/93
Author of approximately 50 other articles and chapters of books on mergers, acquisitions, private equity, tax, corporate, SEC, and accounting issues including Tax Law Review; The Tax Lawyer; Journal of Taxation; Tax Notes; American Bar Association Journal; Taxes Magazine; Venture Capital Review; New York University Institute on Taxation book; University of Southern California Major Tax Planning book; Tulane Tax Institute book; Chicago Bar Record; New York Law Journal; PLI books; Illinois Institute on Continuing Legal Education books; Chicago Sunday Tribune; Journal of Buyouts & Acquisitions; Chicago Kent Law Review
Speaker at many tax, private equity, venture capital, fund formation, merger & acquisition, and other conferences and seminars:
Practising Law Institute seminars on tax, SEC, and accounting aspects of corporate acquisitions, buyouts, financings, and reorganizations
American Bar Association and ALI/ABA national institutes
Chicago and Illinois Bar Association seminars
Illinois Institute on Continuing Legal Education seminars
Federal, California, and Colorado Bar Association seminars
Tax and/or corporate institutes sponsored by Hawaii Tax Institute, University of Chicago, New York University, Tulane University, Miami University, Georgetown University, University of Virginia, University of Southern California, Southwestern Legal Foundation, Chicago Kent, Northwestern University, Southern Federal Tax Institute, University of California Securities Regulation Institute, Chicago Estate Planning Council, National Association of Estate Planning Councils, Chicago Federal Tax Forum, Chicago Tax Club, national and regional meetings of the American Society of Corporate Secretaries, Association of General Counsel, American Bankers Association, National Association of Small Business Investment Companies, Association for Corporate Growth, International Fiscal Association, McGraw-Hill and Harcourt Brace, Wharton Enterprise Institute