Press Release

Kirkland & Ellis Appoints New Partners

15 September 2011

Kirkland & Ellis LLP is pleased to announce that 75 attorneys will be promoted to partner effective October 1, 2011. Seven attorneys of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP will also be promoted to partner.

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

Kirkland & Ellis LLP is a 1,500-attorney law firm representing global clients in complex litigation, dispute resolution and arbitration, corporate and tax, restructuring, and intellectual property and technology matters. The Firm has offices in Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Shanghai and Washington, D.C.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Name	Practice Area	Office
Suzanne Milne Alexander	Litigation	Chicago
Uma M. Amuluru	Litigation	Chicago
James P. Bartley	Real Estate	Chicago
Harper Batts	Intellectual Property	Palo Alto
Derek Bentsen	Litigation	Washington, D.C.
Brittany Whitesell Biles	Litigation	Washington, D.C.
Robert C. Blaustein	Corporate	New York
Daniel A. Bress	Litigation	Washington, D.C.
Bryce A. Budin	Intellectual Property	Chicago
William H. Burgess	Intellectual Property	Washington, D.C.
Jason Choy	Intellectual Property	Los Angeles
Kenneth S. Clark	Litigation	Washington, D.C.
Michael I. Cohen	Intellectual Property	Chicago
Ian R. Conner*	Antitrust	Washington, D.C.
Christa C. Cottrell	Litigation	Chicago
Jennifer W. Cowen	Litigation	Chicago
Amy E. Crawford	Litigation	Chicago
John K. Crisham	Litigation	Washington, D.C.
Thad W. Davis	Tax	Chicago
David R. Dempsey	Litigation	Washington, D.C.
Scott M. Edenfield	Litigation	Chicago
Eunnice H. Eun	Litigation	Washington, D.C.
David B. Feirstein	Corporate	New York
Colleen M. Garlington	Intellectual Property	Chicago
Leo M. Greenberg	Corporate	New York
Melissa K. Grouzard	Litigation	Chicago
Michael J. Gulliford	Intellectual Property	New York
Andrew G. Heinz	Intellectual Property; Litigation	New York
Jordan M. Heinz	Intellectual Property	Chicago
Sarah P. Herlihy	Litigation	Chicago
Matthew J. Hertko	Intellectual Property	Chicago
Dana E. Hill	Litigation	Washington, D.C.
Edward Holzwanger	Employment & Labor	Washington, D.C.
Karen Tu Huoth	Intellectual Property	Palo Alto
Christopher M. Kaiser	Intellectual Property	Chicago
Jessica C. Kaiser	Intellectual Property	Chicago
Elizabeth M. Kim	Litigation	Los Angeles
Rebecca A. Koch	Litigation	Washington, D.C.
Nancy L. Kowalczyk	Corporate	Chicago
Jess M. Krannich	Litigation	Chicago
John C. Krocak	Corporate	Chicago
Anh B. Lee	Corporate	Chicago
J. John Lee	Intellectual Property	Washington, D.C.
Fred N. Lim	Corporate	San Francisco
Elizabeth M. Locke	Litigation	Washington, D.C.
Michele Luburich	Corporate	Chicago
Nathan S. Mammen	Intellectual Property	Washington, D.C.
Jennifer L. Marines	Restructuring	New York
Sean M. McEldowney	Intellectual Property	Washington, D.C.
Mercedes McFarland	Corporate	Chicago
David P. Milligan	Corporate	Chicago
Daniel C. Moore	Litigation	Chicago
Nadia Murad	Corporate	Chicago
Hunter Murdock	Litigation	New York
Kate S. O'Scannlain	Litigation	Washington, D.C.
Jason R. Parish	Litigation	Washington, D.C.
Carolina Hungria Paschoal	Intellectual Property	New York
D. Joseph Piech	Litigation	Chicago
Karin Wray Preusse	Intellectual Property	Chicago
Mark W. Rasmussen	Litigation	New York
Brenton A. Rogers	Litigation	Chicago
David A. Rosenberg	Real Estate	Chicago
Jacob P. Sheehan	Corporate	Chicago
Matthew J. Shiels	Intellectual Property	Chicago
Michael J. Shipley	Litigation	Los Angeles
Sienna R. Singer	Restructuring	Chicago
Gregory L. Skidmore	Litigation	Washington, D.C.
Steve Toth	Corporate	Chicago
R. Roy Wang	Intellectual Property	Palo Alto
Sara Michaelchuck Webber	Environmental	Washington, D.C.
Paul Wierbicki	Restructuring	Chicago
Nathan M. Wilda	Corporate	Chicago
Jennifer Peters Wilson	Corporate	Chicago
Stefanie Merry Wool	Corporate	New York
Joshua M. Zachariah	Corporate	New York

Kirkland & Ellis International LLP*

Name	Practice Area	Office
Pierre-Luc Arsenault**	Corporate	Hong Kong
Christopher Braunack	Corporate	Hong Kong
Markus Feil**	Corporate	Munich
Victoria Pickett	Corporate	London
Angela Rohman Russo**	Tax	Hong Kong
Christopher Shield	Corporate (European Finance Group)	London
Cedric Van den Borren**	Corporate	London

* Move from Of Counsel to Partner

** All Partners of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP in Hong Kong and London who are not solicitors have to be registered with the Law Society of England & Wales, and those in Munich have to be registered as Exempt European Lawyers before they are allowed to become partners.