Matthew O'Brien is a corporate partner in the Firm's Chicago office. Matthew represents private equity sponsors and public and private company clients in mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, going-private transactions, joint ventures, divestitures, private financings, recapitalizations and restructurings, and in related corporate governance, executive compensation and general corporate matters. Matthew joined Kirkland in 2006 and has been a partner since 2012.
Matthew has handled such matters on behalf of, among others, private equity sponsors Apax Partners, Bain Capital, Beecken Petty O'Keefe & Company, Chicago Growth Partners, CHS Capital, Golden Gate Capital, GTCR, Lee Equity Partners, Madison Dearborn Partners, New Mountain Capital, Platinum Equity, Sycamore Partners, The Riverside Company and Willis Stein & Partners, as well as many of their portfolio companies, in addition to handling acquisition, divestiture and investment transactions for CME Group, ConvergEx, Duff & Phelps and The Royal Bank of Scotland.
