Stan Wash

Partner Litigation

Chicago +1 312 862 2319

Stan Wash

Overview

Stan Wash is a litigation partner in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Stan focuses his practice on a broad range of complex commercial disputes, including environmental and toxic torts and various M&A-related matters. Stan represents clients in state and federal trial and appellate courts and arbitrations, on both the plaintiff and defense side. Stan has extensive experience in mass tort, class action, and MDL proceedings, as well as various M&A dispute scenarios, including purchase price adjustment and earn out arbitrations, valuation disputes and other employment matters. Stan also has a robust pro bono practice, including successful representations of wrongly convicted, indigent and other victimized individuals. Stan previously clerked in the Northern District of Illinois for the Honorable Robert M. Dow, Jr.

Private Equity

  • Represented Sun Capital in a contractual fraud case brought against the Sellers of a portfolio company.
  • Represented Sycamore Partners in connection with a stock-repurchase dispute.
  • Represented various private equity firms in earnout disputes, books and records requests, subpoena responses, and related litigation and arbitration proceedings.
  • Represented HGGC in litigation related to the sale of a portfolio company.
  • Represented GTCR in litigation related to the sale of a portfolio company.
  • Represented Water Street Healthcare Partners in litigation involving one of its portfolio companies.
  • Represented GTCR in arbitration regarding a purchase price allocation in connection with the sale of a portfolio company.

Mass Tort

  • Represented various chemical manufacturers in cases involving alleged exposure to ethylene oxide.
  • Represented DuPont in airborne chemical exposure litigation.
  • Represented Syngenta in agrochemical exposure litigation.

Restructuring

  • Represented textbook manufacturer Cengage in successful restructuring
  • Represented Patriot Coal in successful Chapter 11 reorganization

Law ClerkHonorable Robert M. Dow, Jr.United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois2014–2016

PILI Fellow, Bluhm Legal Clinic, 2012

First-chaired criminal re-trial of individual wrongfully convicted of murder, released after seven years in prison.

Represented multiple transgender clients in name-change proceedings.

Represented incarcerated individual for multiple claims of inadequate medical care, obtaining favorable settlements.

Worked with Legal Aid Foundation developing strategy for coerced-debt victims.

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Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2012Illinois

Courts

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
  • United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Education

  • Northwestern Pritzker School of LawJ.D.cum laude2012

    Managing Editor, Northwestern University Law Review

    Julius H. Miner Moot Court Competition: Problem Editor, 2012; Winner, 2011; Best Brief, 2011

    President, Student Effort to Rejuvenate Volunteering (SERV)

    Vice President, American Constitution Society (ACS)

  • Indiana UniversityB.F.A., Musical Theatre2001