Press Release

Kirkland & Ellis Announces New Partners

Kirkland & Ellis is pleased to announce that 80 attorneys will be promoted to partner effective October 1, 2013.

The names, practice groups and office locations of the attorneys follow.

Kirkland & Ellis is a 1,600-attorney law firm representing global clients in complex litigation, dispute resolution and arbitration, corporate and tax, restructuring, and intellectual property matters. The Firm has offices in Beijing, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Shanghai and Washington, D.C.

Chicago

Name

Practice Area

Dennis J. Abdelnour

Intellectual Property

Raymond F. Bogenrief

Corporate

Christina L. Briesacher

Litigation

Benjamin P. Clinger

Corporate

Ryan Preston Dahl

Restructuring

Emily R. Dempsey

Intellectual Property

Scott S. Evans

Intellectual Property

Christopher Freeman

Intellectual Property

Robert Goedert

Corporate

Benjamin M. Harell

Corporate

Reid Huefner

Intellectual Property

Jonathan Lahn

Litigation

Devon M. Largio

Litigation

Katharine S. Mascarenhas

Corporate

James B. Medek

Intellectual Property

Matthew S. Meltzer

Litigation

JoAnne Mulder Nagjee

Tax

Ilan Napchan

Tax

Noah J. Ornstein

Restructuring

Thomas W. Osier

Intellectual Property

Jeffrey D. Pawlitz

Restructuring

Alexander E. Plakas

Corporate

Seth J. Pritikin

Corporate

Bradley C. Reed

Corporate

Martin L. Roth

Litigation

Joshua M. Samis*

Corporate

Catherine E. Stahl

Litigation

David M. Tressler

Litigation

Sylvia N. Winston

Litigation

Brian D. Wolfe

Corporate

Peter J. Wozniak

Litigation

Hong Kong

Name

Practice Area

Henry Cheng*

Corporate

Benjamin W. James

Corporate

Stephanie Lau*

Corporate

London

Name

Practice Area

Alexandra Conroy

Private Funds

James Crooks

Debt Finance

Mark Fine

Debt Finance

Valerie Goldstein

Corporate

James Howe

Corporate

Dulcie Sawle Daly

Tax

Andrej Wolf

Corporate

Los Angeles

Name

Practice Area

Allison Worthy Buchner

Intellectual Property

Luke Guerra

Corporate

Nisha Kanchanapoomi

Corporate

Peter P. Massumi

Corporate

Derek Milosavljevic

Litigation

Beth M. Weinstein

Litigation

New York

Name

Practice Area

Darío D. Avram

Corporate

Paul Beck

Corporate

Richard M. Brand

Corporate

Daniel Forchheimer*

Intellectual Property

Christopher M. Gerson

Intellectual Property

Christopher T. Greco

Restructuring

Tarnetta V. Jones

Corporate

David E. Kaye

Real Estate

Katherine L. McDaniel

Litigation

David Meyer

Restructuring

Dvir Oren

Corporate

Judson A. Oswald

Corporate

Benjamin Panter

Tax

Taryn Reynolds

Real Estate

Brian Schartz

Restructuring

Peter B. Silverman*

Intellectual Property

Joshua F. Soszynski

Corporate

Amy F. Wollensack

Corporate

Palo Alto

Name

Practice Area

Sean O. Christofferson

Intellectual Property

Lien K. Dang

Intellectual Property

San Francisco

Name

Practice Area

Patrick Dunn

Corporate

Jason Pien

Corporate

Traci L. Shafroth

Litigation

Washington, D.C.

Name

Practice Area

Katharine M. Burke

Intellectual Property

Cormac T. Connor*

Government & Internal Investigations

Hans Peter Dyke

Energy

H. Boyd Greene, IV

Government Contracts

Emily P. Hughes

Litigation

Erin Johnston

Litigation

Patrick King

Litigation

Christopher R. Nalevanko

Intellectual Property

Ragan Naresh

Litigation

Ilana Saltzbart

Environmental Litigation

* Promoted from Of Counsel or Counsel to partner.

NOTE:  In general, the admission date will be October 1, 2013, or such later date when any necessary regulatory requirements have been complied with.