Press Release

Kirkland & Ellis LLP Appoints New Partners

01 October 2007

Kirkland & Ellis LLP is pleased to announce that the following attorneys were promoted to partner on Oct. 1, 2007.

The names, ages and practice groups of the attorneys follows.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP is a 1,300-attorney law firm representing global clients in complex corporate and tax, litigation, restructuring, dispute resolution and arbitration, and intellectual property and technology matters. The Firm has offices in Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

Name	Practice Area	Office
Eliot A. Adelson	Litigation	San Francisco
Arshad A. Ahmed	Corporate	San Francisco
Kon M. Asimacopoulos	Restructuring	London
Anu Balasubramanian	Corporate	London
Justin A. Barker	Litigation	Chicago
Ryan Blaine Bennett	Restructuring	Chicago
Patricia E. Betterly	Corporate	New York
Noah D. Boyens	Corporate	San Francisco
Erin N. Brady	Restructuring	Los Angeles
Jonathan D. Brightbill	Litigation	Washington, D.C.
Lauren Oland Casazza	Litigation	New York
Albert S. Cho	Corporate	New York
Tobias D. Chun	Corporate	Washington, D.C.
Jeanne T. Cohn-Connor*	Corporate	Washington, D.C.
Philip David Crump	Corporate	London
Tiffany P. Cunningham	Intellectual Property	Chicago
Dawn H. Dawson	Intellectual Property	Chicago
Jason P. Desai	Corporate	Chicago
David L. Dixon	Corporate	San Francisco
Michael J. Frishberg	Restructuring	New York
Patrick Edward Groomes	Corporate	Washington, D.C.
Mark S. Hamill	Litigation	Chicago
Bradley M. Hanna	Corporate	Chicago
Jennifer K. Hardy	Litigation	Washington, D.C.
Michael J. Hauswirth	Corporate	Washington, D.C.
Stephen E. Hessler	Restructuring	New York
Andrew G. Horne	Litigation	New York
Tai Hsia**	Corporate	Hong Kong
Julie Brennan Jacobs	Litigation	Washington, D.C.
A. Katrine Jakola	Litigation	Chicago
Jenny N. Lee	Intellectual Property	San Francisco
Russell S. Light	Corporate	Chicago
James MacArthur	Corporate	London
James J. Mazza, Jr.	Restructuring	Chicago
Galia Messika	Litigation	New York
Wolfgang M. Nardi**	Corporate	Munich
Howard Steven Norber	Corporate	Chicago
Lucy K. Park	Corporate	Chicago
Paul Douglas Patrow	Corporate	Chicago
Matthew J. Richards	Corporate	Chicago
Bruce L. Richardson*	Corporate	Washington, D.C.
Laura A. Rupenian	Corporate	San Francisco
Christian D.H. Schultz	Litigation	Washington, D.C.
Ellen Agnes Scordino	Intellectual Property	New York
Nicholas J. Secco	Litigation	Chicago
Kalpesh K. Shah	Intellectual Property	Chicago
Christopher T. Shannon	Corporate	Chicago
Howard D. Shatz	Intellectual Property	New York
Josh B. Simon	Litigation	New York
Nyika O. Strickland	Intellectual Property	Chicago
Kathryn F. Taylor	Litigation	Chicago
Anne S. Toker	Intellectual Property	New York
Thaddeus J. Tracy	Corporate	New York
Daniel Sean Trainor*	Intellectual Property	Washington, D.C.
Derek W. Vander Heide	Corporate	Chicago
Rebecca J. Wahlquist	Litigation	Los Angeles
Ann Marie T. Wahls	Intellectual Property	Chicago
Rachel Pernic Waldron	Intellectual Property	Chicago
Christine Willgoos	Intellectual Property	New York
Michael F. Williams	Litigation	Washington, D.C.
Jeffrey J. Zeiger	Litigation	Chicago
Scott R. Zemnick	Restructuring	Chicago

* Transfer from Of Counsel to Partner

** Promotion pending approval by the Law Society of England & Wales

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