Kirkland Announces New Partners
Kirkland & Ellis LLP is pleased to announce that 97 attorneys were promoted to partner effective Oct. 1, 2017.
The names, practice groups and office locations of the attorneys follow.
Kirkland & Ellis is a law firm with more than 2,000 attorneys representing global clients in private equity, M&A and other complex corporate transactions, litigation and dispute resolution/arbitration, restructuring, and intellectual property matters. The Firm has 13 offices around the world: Beijing, Boston, Chicago, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Shanghai and Washington, D.C.Chicago
|
Name |
Practice Area |
| Jennifer Avery-Emani | M&A/Private Equity |
| Aaron M. Berlin | Debt Finance |
| Robert Britton | Restructuring |
| Ralph N. Dado, III | Government, Regulatory and Internal Investigations Litigation |
| Christopher R. Elder | M&A/Private Equity |
| Seth Fishman | Investment Funds |
| Karen E. Flanagan | M&A/Private Equity |
| Maggie D. Flores | M&A/Private Equity/Capital Markets |
| Emily E. Geier | Restructuring |
| Anna F. Geml | M&A/Private Equity |
| Joe Graham | Restructuring |
| Sam S. Hong | Technology & IP Transactions |
| Amanda A. Jacobowski | Litigation |
| Howard M. Kaplan | Litigation |
| Emma E. Lange-Novak | M&A/Private Equity |
| Margaret Gillespie Cahoon Linkous | Real Estate |
| Paul Mysliwiec | Investment Funds |
| Stacy Pepper | Litigation |
| Gregory F. Pesce | Restructuring |
| Anne Salomon | Litigation |
| Anthony V. Sexton | Tax |
| Daniel I. Siegfried | Litigation |
| David H. Stults | Investment Funds |
| W. Benjamin Winger | Restructuring |
| Alyse Wu | Intellectual Property Litigation |
Hong Kong
|
Name |
Practice Area |
| David Couper | Debt Finance |
| Hao-Chin (Frank) Jeng | Litigation |
| Daniel Margulies | Restructuring |
| Paul Quinn | Litigation |
| Robert Sandes | Restructuring |
| Yue Zhang | Investment Funds |
Houston
|
Name |
Practice Area |
| Michael P. Fisherman | Capital Markets |
| Cyril V. Jones | M&A/Private Equity |
| Samuel C. Peca | M&A/Private Equity |
| Michael Rigdon | Capital Markets |
| Nicolas W. Thompson | Government, Regulatory and Internal Investigations Litigation |
London
|
Name |
Practice Area |
| Andrew Butel | Government, Regulatory and Internal Investigations Litigation |
| Mark Ingram | Tax |
| Philipp Kurek | Litigation |
| Jeremy Leggate | Investment Funds |
| Frazer Money | Tax |
| Jon Newman | Arbitration |
| Aranpreet Randhawa | Investment Funds |
| James Simpson | Capital Markets |
| Adam Skinner | Financial Services Regulatory |
| Mark Thompson | M&A/Private Equity |
| Jacob Traff | M&A/Private Equity |
| Rebecca Villarreal | M&A/Private Equity |
| Christopher Wall | Debt Finance |
Los Angeles
|
Name |
Practice Area |
| Benjamin Herbert | Intellectual Property Litigation |
| Bryan T. Ikegami | M&A/Private Equity |
| Michael A. Onufer | Litigation |
| James Rapore | Litigation |
| Kristin Rose | Litigation |
New York
|
Name |
Practice Area |
| Juliet Anderson | Investment Funds |
| George N. Bauer | Government, Regulatory and Internal Investigations Litigation |
| Shanti Sadtler Conway | Intellectual Property Litigation |
| Christopher DeCoro | Intellectual Property Litigation |
| Rachel Gray | Debt Finance |
| Anthony R. Grossi | Restructuring |
| Patrick Jacobs | M&A/Private Equity |
| Ming Lim | Capital Markets |
| Renata Lombardi Malavazzi | M&A/Private Equity |
| Sean Malone | Investment Funds |
| Mary Mazzello | Intellectual Property Litigation |
| Marsha Mogilevich | Capital Markets |
| Mira Atanassova Mulvaney | Intellectual Property Litigation |
| Vishal Phalgoo | M&A/Private Equity |
| Cristine Pirro | Restructuring |
| Jaclyn L. Rabin | Investment Funds |
| Alan M. Rabinowitz | Intellectual Property Litigation |
| Elizabeth L. Richards | Investment Funds |
| Drue A. Santora | Derivatives |
| Peter Seligson | Capital Markets |
| Clément Smadja | M&A/Private Equity |
| Leslie Theophile | Investment Funds |
| Jessica M. Woolf | Debt Finance |
| Lina Zhou | Investment Funds |
Palo Alto
|
Name |
Practice Area |
| Anjna R. Mehta | M&A/Private Equity |
San Francisco
|
Name |
Practice Area |
| James W. Beach | M&A/Private Equity |
| James Beard | Intellectual Property Litigation |
| Kristen L. Derhaag | Debt Finance |
| Sarah Forney | Intellectual Property Litigation |
| Aditi Iyer | Debt Finance |
| Ashley E. Littlefield | Litigation |
| Sarah Schaedler | Technology & IP Transactions |
| Jane Wu | Debt Finance |
Washington, D.C.
|
Name |
Practice Area |
| Devin Allan DeBacker | Litigation |
| Jonathan Jones | Intellectual Property Litigation |
| William Kimmitt | Litigation |
| Edmund G. LaCour Jr. | Appellate Litigation |
| Beth Mueller | Government, Regulatory and Internal Investigations Litigation |
| Sanjay José Mullick | International Trade |
| Bryan M. O'Keefe | Labor & Employment |
| Andrew Pruitt | Litigation |
| Michael Schulman | Labor & Employment |
| Megan M. Wold | Appellate Litigation |
NOTE: In general, the admission date will be October 1, 2017, or such later date when any necessary regulatory requirements have been satisfied.
