Robert Smith is a partner in Kirkland’s Sponsor Transactions group. Robert represents sponsors, founders and principals in strategic transactions and arrangements involving alternative asset managers. His practice focuses on asset management M&A, GP stake sales, preferred and other structured equity investments, anchor and seeding arrangements, upper-tier partnerships, and related governance and incentive matters. He regularly advises private equity, private credit and real estate managers on complex transactions that shape ownership, capital formation and long-term growth.
Robert brings to his practice more than a decade of experience leading complex M&A transactions. Prior to joining Kirkland, Robert led the M&A practice of a premier Los Angeles restructuring firm, where he represented private credit funds, financial sponsors and strategic acquirers in sophisticated transactions across the capital structure in special situations.
*Not admitted to practice in Utah
