Omer Mir is a principal in Kirkland’s Platform Solutions Group, which leverages the Firm’s global platform to track market developments, transaction themes and industry dynamics, delivering data-driven market intelligence and strategic advisory services to private capital sponsors.
Prior to joining Kirkland, Omer spent almost a decade at McKinsey & Company, leading engagements for private equity sponsors and corporates across North America and the Middle East. His work spanned the full deal lifecycle: rigorous commercial diligence, strategic acquisition planning, operational transformation and successful exits across high-growth sectors such as healthcare, technology and business services.
Omer holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. He partners closely with Kirkland lawyers and deal teams to provide incisive strategic analysis and actionable insights across the private capital ecosystem.
Select Deal Advisory Experience
- Guided a large-cap private-equity fund through commercial diligence and a value-creation plan for a leading e-prescription platform ahead of a majority investment.
- Helped a middle-market sponsor map an underserved sector and design the strategy for its first dedicated, industry-focused fund.
- Built the investment thesis for a global growth-equity investor considering an AI-powered customer-engagement platform.
- Supported a lower middle-market sponsor with buy-side diligence on a staffingâsolutions provider as part of a roll-up play.
- Advised a private-capital investor on a distressed-debt opportunity in a dental-services organization.
- Ran buy-side diligence on an IT-services provider for a middle-market sponsor.
- Delivered commercial diligence for a Fortune 500 acquirer evaluating a field-service-management software target.
- Created a value-creation roadmap—including integration with current assets—for a healthcare risk-adjustment platform under review by a top-tier PE fund.
- Conducted buy-side diligence on a specialty infusion platform for a large-cap sponsor seeking scale in a fragmented market.
- Shaped sell-side positioning and diligence materials for an IT-services company marketing to strategic buyers.
- Produced vendor due diligence for a professional-services firm seeking minority capital.
- Evaluated a nurse-scheduling software platform’s fit within a strategic acquirer’s product suite.
Select Strategy & Transformation Experience
- Developed a multiyear growth roadmap and portfolio-optimization plan for a global CRO backed by an international PE consortium.
- Stood up and led the post-merger integration office for a software acquisition, driving synergy capture and execution governance.
- Designed and implemented a firm-wide spend control tower for a Fortune 500 enterprise in partnership with the CFO.
- Orchestrated a supply-chain and procurement transformation for a diversified industrials conglomerate, including supplier renegotiations and operating-model redesign.
- Executed an end-to-end sales-force transformation—covering org design, coaching and enablement—for a financial-services firm.
