Nick Warther is a tax associate in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. His practice focuses on the tax aspects of complex business transactions, including restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, divestitures, and fund formations.
Experience
Representative Matters
Bankruptcy and Restructurings
Representations include the following companies in their bankruptcy and restructuring matters: Windstream Holdings, Carlson Travel, Belk (in the fastest-ever in-court restructuring transaction), Technicolor (in its Chapter 15 cases, part of an accelerated financial safeguard proceeding under French law), Stage Stores, Pier 1 Imports, Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, Westmoreland Coal Company, and Cenveo.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Numerous representations of leading private equity firms, their portfolio companies, and other clients in complex acquisitions, investments, sales, and divestitures, including Sycamore Partners, Bain Capital, Wind Point Partners, Audax Group, Paine Schwartz Partners, and AE Industrial Partners.
Fund Formations, Secondary Transactions, and Restructurings
Numerous representations of leading private equity firms and limited partners in transactions concerning private investment funds, including Starwood Capital Group, Linden Capital Partners, EW Healthcare Partners, and Ascendent Capital Partners.
Clerk & Government Experience
InternThe United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of IllinoisSummer 2014
Prior Experience
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, New York, NY, Associate, 2016–2017
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, New York, NY, Summer Associate, Summer 2015
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
2017New York
2018Illinois
Education
Harvard Law SchoolJ.D.cum laude2016
Research Assistant, Professor Louis Kaplow
Research Assistant, Professor Steven Shavell
Columbia UniversityB.A., Statistics & Historymagna cum laude2013
