Michael Reeves is a leader in Kirkland’s GP strategic advisory and asset management M&A practice and has been recognized worldwide for representing leading private equity and other alternative asset management firms in complex “GP stake sale” and other asset management M&A transactions, including (i) mergers and acquisitions of asset management businesses, (ii) purchase and sales of common and preferred equity interests in private equity, private credit and real estate managers, (iii) seed investments by financial sponsors, family offices and strategic investors in emerging investment managers and (iv) related joint venture and partnership arrangements, including succession planning for founders and senior principals of asset management firms.
Michael was featured among the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 “Leaders of Influence: Private Equity, Investors, & Advisors” and was named a “Bank and Finance Visionary” by the LA Times Studio in 2025.
Michael has advised sponsors worldwide on some of the largest and most significant GP stake and asset management transactions for over a decade.
His clients have included Clearlake Capital Group*, Energy Capital Partners*, GI Partners, GTCR, HGGC, Incline Equity Partners, I Squared Capital, Kayne Anderson*, KPS Capital Partners, LBA Realty*, Lead Edge Capital*, LLR Partners, Marlin Equity Partners, Oaktree Capital Management*, Nautic Partners, New Catalyst Strategic Partners, Pennybacker Capital Management, Platinum Equity*, Revelstoke Capital Partners, Shamrock Capital*, SLR Capital Partners and Wind Point Partners, among many others.
