Eric Sweigard is a corporate partner in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP and is a member of the Firm’s Strategic GP Advisory Practice Group. Eric’s practice focuses on guiding private equity sponsors, asset managers and investors through mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, minority investment transactions, control transactions, seed and financing transactions and other complex business transactions, as well as general corporate, governance, executive compensation and equity matters.
Eric has advised numerous clients on such matters, including, among others, Accel-KKR, AE Industrial Partners, Ares Management, Arsenal Capital Partners, Bain Capital, Blue Owl Capital, Charlesbank Capital Partners, Cressey & Company, ICONIQ Capital, Linden Capital, Madison Dearborn Partners, ParkerGale Capital, Sun Capital Partners, Waud Capital Partners and Wind Point Partners.
