Global Legal Awards

The American Lawyer selected Kirkland for five first-place awards in its 2015 Global Legal Awards. The awards honor the biggest and most important global commercial legal matters. The winning matters are featured in AmLaw stories in October. Kirkland was recognized at the Global Legal Awards dinner in New York on September 28, 2015.

Kirkland won for:

• Global Finance Deal of the Year: Restructuring (Germany) for IVG financial restructuring;
• Global Finance Deal of the Year: Restructuring (U.S.) for NII Holdings restructuring; 
  
• Global Finance Deal of the Year: Restructuring (South America) for OGX debt restructuring;
  
• Global M&A Deal of the Year: Canada for Burger King’s merger with Tim Hortons; and
• Global M&A Deal of the Year: China for Giant Interactive LBO