Caitlin Meagher-Kreisel
Overview
Caitlin Meagher-Kreisel is an associate in the Environmental Transactions Practice Group of Kirkland & Ellis LLP in the Washington, D.C., office. She advises clients on environmental issues across a range of industries, primarily regarding environmental liabilities and the treatment of environmental risks in the context of corporate mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, real estate transactions, and financing transactions. Caitlin has experience in conducting environmental due diligence, negotiating purchase, lease, and credit agreements, managing environmental consultants and securing environmental insurance coverage for environmentally sensitive businesses and properties.
Caitlin maintains an active pro bono practice, which includes representing families in special education matters and volunteering for non-partisan election protection organizations during the 2020, 2022 and 2024 election cycles.
Experience
Clerk & Government Experience
Legal InternUnited States Securities and Exchange Commission
Legal InternUnited States Department of Energy
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Thought Leadership
Publications
Co-Author, “PFAS Update: European Chemicals Agency Publishes Proposal That Would Ban or Severely Restrict the Manufacture, Use and Marketing of Thousands of Broadly Used Man-Made PFAS Chemicals,” Kirkland Alert, February 15, 2023.
Co-Author, “EPA Makes the Next Move in Increasing Regulation of Certain Broadly Used Man-Made PFAS Chemicals Under CERCLA,” Kirkland Alert, September 13, 2022.
Co-Author, “Biden Administration Announces Plans to Regulate ‘Forever Chemicals,’” Kirkland Alert, October 25, 2021.
Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2021District of Columbia
Education
- Georgetown University Law CenterJ.D.magna cum laude2020
Order of the Coif
Senior Editor, Georgetown Environmental Law Review
- Georgetown UniversityB.S.F.S., Science, Technology and International Affairs (Environment and Energy Concentration)cum laude2017
News &
Insights
- Press Release Kirkland Advises iQor on Sale of Majority Stake to Mill Point Capital
- Press Release Kirkland Advises Monomoy on $315 Million Sale of Sportech to Patrick Industries
- Press Release Kirkland Represents TJC on Acquisition of Majority Stake of Delrin
- Kirkland Alert PFAS Update: European Chemicals Agency Publishes Proposal That Would Ban or Severely Restrict the Manufacture, Use and Marketing of Thousands of Broadly Used Man-Made PFAS Chemicals
- Kirkland Alert EPA Makes the Next Move in Increasing Regulation of Certain Broadly Used Man-Made PFAS Chemicals Under CERCLA