Kirkland & Ellis International LLP

Aaron Lorber

Aaron Lorber is a partner in Kirkland’s Chicago Technology & IP Transactions practice. He focuses his practice on structuring, drafting, and negotiating complex business transactions, including corporate and M&A deals, joint ventures and strategic alliances, IP licenses, supply chain agreements, and outsourcing and other commercial arrangements. Aaron counsels clients on IP and technology issues that arise in mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital transactions, debt financing transactions and other forms of corporate and financing transactions. He also is experienced with respect to data security and data privacy issues. Aaron has also represented clients in patent infringement litigations involving a variety of technologies and actively represents pro bono clients, including various clients referred through the Lawyers for the Creative Arts. · Technology & IP Transactions

Aaron Marks

Aaron Marks has a broad commercial litigation practice, which focuses on contractual disputes, M&A and securities litigation, real estate, restructuring, entertainment, mass torts and consumer fraud, and trade secret misappropriation. Many of the cases that Aaron litigates are bet-the-company matters for clients. Aaron’s clients have included Blackstone Group, National Australia Bank, H.I.G. Capital, Tapestry, AMC Networks, and Hilton Worldwide. Aaron is an accomplished trial lawyer, having taken more than 15 jury trials to verdict. He also frequently argues as lead counsel, recently wining several favorable decisions after oral argument before trial and appellate courts. · Commercial Litigation

Achim Herfs

Dr. Achim Herfs is a corporate partner in the Munich office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. He advises listed companies on capital markets transactions, corporate restructurings and M&A transactions, as well as corporations and their bodies on general capital markets and stock corporation law, including the support of general meetings, and internal investigations. Furthermore, Achim Herfs advises issuers and banks on capital markets transactions, including IPOs, rights offerings, share placements without pre-emptive rights and block trades, as well as the issuance of convertible bonds and high yield bonds. · Capital Markets

Adam Alper

Adam Alper is a leading member of the intellectual property litigation group in Kirkland’s Bay Area office. Focusing primarily on patent and trade secret disputes, and predominantly representing clients in the semiconductor, telecommunications, computer hardware and pharmaceutical industries, Adam regularly litigates high-stakes competitor cases involving concurrent claims of patent, trade secret and copyright violations. These disputes often involve co-pending actions in US District Courts, and before the USPTO PTAB and USITC, that are frequently litigated through the trial and post-trial phases. · Patent Litigation

Adam Kool

Adam Kool is a tax partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Adam has a broad-based practice, and handles a wide range of complex transactions, focusing on the tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and spin-offs, both domestic and cross-border. Adam also advises clients on the tax aspects of securities issuances, real estate investments, bankruptcy and restructuring, and investment fund formation. · Tax

Adam Larson

Adam Larson is a partner in the Houston and Austin offices of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Adam’s primary practice areas include mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and capital markets. He has counseled private equity investors, their portfolio companies, and other public and private companies in connection with mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures and offerings of equity and debt securities. Adam also advises clients in connection with the negotiation of partnership and LLC agreements, securities laws compliance, and corporate governance. Adam has advised clients across a broad range of industries, including energy, renewables and sustainability, consumer products, and industrials. · Mergers and Acquisitions

Adam Petravicius

Adam Petravicius is an experienced technology and IP transactions attorney with substantial experience in leading technology-driven deals. He has worked with companies of all sizes, from emerging companies to the largest public companies, in a wide range of industries, including software/IT, life sciences, electronics, consumer products, manufacturing, chemicals, defense and automotive. He routinely advises executives and business owners on strategy and legal issues, providing business-oriented advice and practical solutions to mitigate risk and maximize value. Adam works with clients on strategic commercial transactions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, licenses, development agreements, commercialization and other collaboration agreements, technology acquisitions and sales, outsourcing, consulting and services agreements, and other complex commercial agreements. He also works closely with Kirkland’s Corporate/M&A practice in connection with the technology and IP aspects of corporate transactions, and in working with portfolio companies on the types of transactions described above. · Technology Transactions

Adam Phillips

Adam D. Phillips is a partner in Kirkland’s corporate transactional group and manages the Corporate practice in the Firm’s Palo Alto office. Adam’s practice is focused on acquisitions and investments for a number of the leading technology-focused buyout and growth equity funds in Silicon Valley and representations of their portfolio companies in a variety of corporate and securities matters. In addition to his tenure at Kirkland, Adam spent 13 years in the corporate sector as both an in-house counsel and a senior M&A executive for private and public companies. In 1997, he was named one of the 45 most influential in-house lawyers in the country under the age of 45 by CCM – The American Lawyer’s Corporate Counsel Magazine. · Corporate

Adam Shapiro

Adam Shapiro is a debt finance partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Adam focuses on banking and credit matters within the debt financing sector while advising private equity firms and their portfolio companies on some of the most sophisticated transactions in the space. He has experience with acquisition financing, bridge loans and refinancing transactions and has worked across industries, including consumer, entertainment, healthcare, industrial, infrastructure and technology. Adam regularly represents clients including Apax Partners, BayPine, GI Partners, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Silver Lake Partners, Stone Point Capital and Warburg Pincus. · Debt Finance

Ahmed Sidik

Ahmed Sidik is a partner in the Houston and Austin offices of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Ahmed advises clients on complex corporate transactions, including carve-out transactions, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, private equity, growth equity and project development investments, recapitalizations, joint ventures, commercial arrangements and related general corporate counseling, with a particular focus on the energy, infrastructure and technology sectors. Prior to law school, Ahmed worked for an oilfield equipment and services company, where he was involved in projects with clients primarily from Southeast Asia. Ahmed has been recognized in The Legal 500 United States for Renewable/Alternative Power and Energy Transactions: Electric Power, by Lawdragon as one of the 500 Leaders in Energy, and has been named a Texas Rising Star for Mergers & Acquisitions by Thomson Reuters. · Corporate Transactions

Akshay Deoras

Akshay Deoras is an intellectual property litigation partner in Kirkland’s Bay Area office focusing on patent infringement and trade secret litigation in federal courts and the US International Trade Commission. Akshay’s practice involves a wide range of technologies, including telecommunications, computer networking, computer graphics, computer security, content protection, semiconductor technology, mobile devices, and pharmaceuticals. · Intellectual Property Litigation

Alan Rabinowitz

Alan Rabinowitz is a partner in Kirkland’s Intellectual Property Litigation Group. Alan counsels clients on IP issues, with a focus on complex patent matters before federal district courts, the International Trade Commission (ITC) and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Alan represents clients on a broad range of technologies, including telecommunications and networking, computer graphics, image processing, audio and video compression, semiconductor fabrication, encryption and digital rights management, computer software and hardware, and medical devices. · Intellectual Property Litigation

Alexander Längsfeld

Dr. Alexander Längsfeld is a finance partner in the Munich office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. He advises German and international clients in national and cross-border acquisition finance transactions and other general finance and restructuring matters. Alexander has a varied experience in banking, securitization and structured finance, as well as in capital markets law. · Acquisition Finance

Alexandra Farmer

Alex heads the Firm’s Sustainability Practice Group, which advises some of the world’s most sophisticated and dynamic private equity firms, corporations, and project sponsors and lenders on complex and evolving legal issues relating to ESG and climate-related regulatory requirements, investor demands, strategic opportunities, and voluntary reporting frameworks and coalitions. Having negotiated hundreds of successful transactions, Alex has significant experience advising clients on climate, environmental, and other ESG issues. This experience includes work on a number of renewable energy and energy transition-focused transactions and projects, such as solar, energy storage, wind, geothermal, energy efficiency, greenhouse gas offsets, and carbon capture, utilization and sequestration (CCUS). Alex provides strategic advice to clients on ESG & Impact issues arising in the context of fund formations, SPACs, IPOs, sustainable finance structures, and other complex transactions. Often bridging the gap between business, engineering, and law, Alex helps clients develop and implement ESG programs tailored to their specific investment strategies and investor preferences, ultimately maximizing opportunities, while minimizing downside risk. Such programs often involve voluntary and mandatory disclosures, due diligence, training, and risk mitigation tools. · ESG

Alexandra Mihalas

Alexandra Mihalas is a partner in the Firm's employee benefits practice. Her practice focuses primarily on transactional ERISA matters for private and public companies, with a particular emphasis on acquisitions and sales by venture capital and other private equity funds, and the ERISA issues that arise in complex bankruptcy restructurings. Alexandra is ranked in the 2025–2026 editions of Chambers USA for Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation in Illinois. She was also recommended in the 2018–2025 editions of The Legal 500 U.S. for Employee Benefits.

Allan Kirk

Allan Kirk's practice focuses on domestic and international mergers and acquisitions in the energy and infrastructure sectors, with a particular emphasis on private equity and complex joint ventures. Allan’s experience covers a broad spectrum of matters, including oil and gas (e.g., onshore and offshore E&P, transportation and midstream, refining, oilfield services, water infrastructure and power generation), energy transition (e.g., renewable power generation including solar, wind, hydrogen, nuclear and thermal power generation, renewable fuels, LNG, energy as a service, grid expansion, carbon credit trading platforms and electric vehicles), data center and digital infrastructure projects, and financing greenfield developments (e.g., various energy-related projects, carbon black processing and semiconductor manufacturing). · Mergers and Acquisitions

Allison Brown

Alli Brown is a litigation partner in the Philadelphia office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Alli is a nationally recognized trial lawyer who represents clients in high-stakes jury trials and has a proven track record of success in some of the most challenging jurisdictions around the country. She is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, an invitation only fellowship of lawyers “who have demonstrated the very highest standards of trial advocacy, ethical conduct, integrity, professionalism, and collegiality.” In 2022, Alli was honored with The American Lawyer’s coveted Litigator of the Year award for her “herculean efforts on behalf of clients facing existential challenges.” Noting her “against all odds” jury trial wins, AmLaw described her work in “the most high-stakes, high profile cases” as “off the charts.” · General Commercial Disputes

Allison Buchner

Allison Buchner is a litigation and intellectual property partner whose practice includes unfair competition, false advertising, trademark and copyright matters before federal and state courts nationwide. Allison has represented clients in litigation brought by consumers, competitors and federal regulators, including the Federal Trade Commission. She has provided advice regarding intellectual property and advertising best practices to companies in a variety of industries, including technology companies, media and television, food manufacturers and distributors, personal care and consumer goods, medical devices, apparel manufacturers and ecommerce. She has also advised internet-based businesses on myriad issues, including consumer protection laws, intellectual property issues, and data privacy/security. · Litigation

Allison Murphy

Allison Murphy is a partner in the Government, Regulatory & Internal Investigations Practice Group in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Having served in the White House Counsel’s Office and on Capitol Hill, Allison brings her strong government experience to bear when guiding clients through high-stakes congressional and federal government investigations. Some of the world’s largest public and privately held companies have relied on Allison for responding to investigations and crisis management environments. With a practice often driven by headline risk matters, she is well-versed in handling parallel inquiries by congressional committees and government agencies, and in litigation. She has prepared chief executive officers, senior executives and members of boards of directors for public testimony. She also regularly advises companies on reputational risk and strategic matters. Her broad practice has covered matters where healthcare, financial, consumer, energy and technology issues are under scrutiny. In being recognized for her work in the 2025 edition of Chambers, her clients note that she “has intimate knowledge of the space and is incredibly smart,” and “provides good guidance and counsel to clients in a proactive and valuable way.” Before joining Kirkland & Ellis, Allison served as Associate Counsel in the White House, providing legal advice on sensitive matters to senior Executive Branch officials at the Treasury Department and others, dealing with high-profile congressional investigations, and advising on litigation implicating executive privilege. Also, she spent a decade on Capitol Hill, including as Chief Oversight Counsel of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis under the Oversight Committee, as well as Counsel for the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Allison has led inquiries related to the coronavirus pandemic, the financial crisis and other complex events. She also previously served as an enforcement attorney with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission handling market manipulation and other sophisticated cases. Allison also counsels tax-exempt entities and as maintains an active pro bono practice. · Government Investigations

Allison Wein

Allison Wein is a corporate partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Allison focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions and other significant corporate matters. Her experience spans the range of M&A activity, including significant cross-border and contested transactions and activism defense. Allison was named a “Rising Star” by Law360 in 2020, recognizing her as one of five outstanding merger and acquisition lawyers in the nation under the age of 40. Crain’s New York Business recognized Allison in its 2025 “Notable M&A Dealmakers” list, which honors those with the vision and execution powering today’s dealmaking. Lawdragon recognized Allison as one of “500 Leading Global Entertainment, Sports & Media Lawyers” in 2025. In 2019, she was named an M&A “Rising Star” by The Deal in The Dealmaker Quarterly. Allison has also been recognized for her work in mergers and acquisitions by IFLR1000 and Lawdragon and for her transactional work in the technology industry and the media and entertainment industry by The Legal 500 United States and The Hollywood Reporter. · Mergers And Acquisitions

Amanda Hollis

Amanda Hollis is an intellectual property litigator and partner in Kirkland’s Chicago office. Her practice includes all areas of technology, including biotechnology, medical devices, chemistry, computing and electronics, and her clients have included some of the nation’s largest companies, such as Abbott Laboratories, Pfizer, Baxter, Teva, C.R. Bard, IBM, Samsung and Cisco, among others. Amanda has tried and led patent cases in federal courts across the country and in the United States International Trade Commission. She also has served as lead counsel in many inter partes reviews before the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Amanda was named to Benchmark Litigation’s 2016–2019 “Under 40 Hot List,” Law360’s 2018 “Top Attorneys Under 40” for Intellectual Property, and Best Lawyers 2017 “Women of Influence” list. Amanda also was recognized for Patent Litigation in The Legal 500 U.S., 2017–2020 and was recommended in the 2021 edition of the IAM Patent 1000 - The World’s Leading Patent Professionals. · Intellectual Property Litigation

Amber Whipkey

Amber Whipkey is a partner in the Litigation Practice Group in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Amber's practice focuses on representing clients, both corporate and individual, in matters related to a broad range of enforcement investigations including those conducted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), among others. In addition, Amber's extensive experience with large-scale litigation and e-discovery best practices enables her to help clients better prepare for and respond to discovery requests in various stages of litigation and investigations. · Securities Enforcement

Amy Abeloff

Amy Abeloff is a partner in Kirkland’s Los Angeles office. Amy counsels on intellectual property matters and has extensive experience in full-service global trademark portfolio management. Amy has extensive experience advising clients on the availability to use and register trademarks worldwide, preparing trademark filing strategies ranging from single trademarks to large, multijurisdictional projects, advocating for her clients offensively and defensively in pre-enforcement activity, and developing complex enforcement strategies incorporating online marketplace and social media takedowns as well as anti-counterfeiting activities. She also provides counsel to clients regarding availability to use and register copyright protectable material. Amy is active in multiple committees of the International Trademark Association. She also represents a number of small businesses and nonprofit organizations in various pro bono matters, including trademark and copyright advising and counseling, prosecution and enforcement strategy. Amy has assisted multiple large-scale, international companies across the alcoholic beverage, healthcare, insurance, financial services and consumer goods industries with global trademark portfolio management matters, including prosecution, filing strategies, clearance, pre-enforcement, enforcement, domestic and international oppositions and cancellations, coexistence and settlement negotiations, license review and revisions, among other intellectual property matters. · Trademark

Amy Ngan

Partner · Complex Commercial Disputes

Andrea Murino

Andrea Agathoklis Murino is an antitrust and competition partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Her unique combination of private and public sector experience allows her to combine a deep understanding of antitrust caselaw and current enforcement priorities to create bespoke and efficient pathways to achieving her clients’ business objectives. Her primary focus is securing clearances for proposed transactions from the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), state attorneys general and international competition law enforcement agencies. She has successfully represented hundreds of clients through intensive investigations, high-profile Second Requests, and federal and administrative litigation. Andrea also has a vibrant practice representing third parties in connection with agency investigations and litigation. Clients have called Andrea “super responsive, very practical and a creative problem solver” who is “a real pleasure to work with” according to Chambers USA. To The Legal 500 U.S., clients noted she is “a very strong and persuasive communicator” who can “distill down the primary advocacy arguments in a case and communicate those ideas persuasively to the antitrust agencies.” · Antitrust

Andrea Weintraub

Andrea Weintraub is a debt finance partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Prior to joining Kirkland’s debt finance group, Andrea focused her practice on restructuring.

Andrew Bloomer

Andrew Bloomer is a litigation partner with extensive experience in a variety of complex litigation matters in federal and state trial and appellate courts. His areas of practice include class actions, multidistrict litigation, and general commercial and product liability litigation, trial work, appeals, and alternative dispute resolution proceedings. Andrew has represented clients in complex consumer class actions, products liability, commercial contracts, environmental, franchise, distributorship, breach of contract, fraud, RICO, ERISA, financial technology, and construction matters. · Class Actions

Andrew Calder

Andrew Calder is a partner in the Houston and New York offices of Kirkland & Ellis LLP where he serves as a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee and leads the Firm’s Global Transactional Practice. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate and securities law, and corporate governance. · Mergers and Acquisitions

Andrew Gershon

Andrew Gershon is a partner in the Investment Funds Practice Group in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Andrew’s practice primarily focuses on the representation of investors and sponsors in connection with private equity secondary transactions, including fund recapitalizations, single and multi-asset continuation funds, traditional acquisitions and dispositions of fund interests, tender offers and co-investment opportunities. · Private Equity

Andrew Kassof

Andrew Kassof leads Kirkland’s litigation practice globally and serves on the Firm’s Executive Committee. Andrew has spearheaded the enormous growth of Kirkland’s litigation practice over the last several years. Bloomberg Law profiled that rapid growth in an article in 2025. As part of that expansion, Kirkland has added industry-leading talent across various types of litigation while opening and growing new offices for litigation in Salt Lake City, Boston, Miami, Philadelphia and Nashville. Kirkland now touts top-of-the-market practitioners across commercial litigation, product liability and mass torts, securities, antitrust, IP, government regulation, internal investigations and enforcement, private equity, sports and entertainment, real estate and other areas in offices around the globe. Andrew also leads Kirkland’s alternative fee program, which has expanded dramatically over the last five years. In his practice, Andrew has earned multiple “Litigator of the Week” awards by The American Lawyer. In one case, the court “adopted” Andrew’s oral argument as “the grounds for its opinion” after “finding that Mr. Kassof’s exposition, explanation, and reasoning aligned with what I would write in a written opinion.” Andrew’s commercial litigation practice cuts across different industries and types of cases, including life sciences, healthcare, oil and gas, sports and entertainment, private equity and other industries. Twice he has tried billion dollar cases to successful verdicts — once on the plaintiff side in a fraud-based suit in federal court in NY, and the other for the defense in a False Claims Act case in Texas; has first-chaired many additional trials in various jurisdictions and in arbitration; and has successfully represented clients in different types of complex commercial disputes, False Claims Act suits, class actions, and other cases in state and federal courts in nearly every state in the country. · Commercial Litigation

Andrew Small

Andrew Small is a partner in the Real Estate Group in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Andrew has extensive experience in commercial real estate advising real estate investors, funds, finance companies, sponsors and operating companies on private equity capital raising, finance (including preferred equity and mezzanine), investment and development of commercial real estate. He also advises on the formation of joint ventures to own, operate, develop and finance global real estate. He regularly represents lenders with participations, modifications, originations and workouts of commercial real estate financings. · Commercial Real Estate

Andrew Stuyvenberg

Drew Stuyvenberg is an energy regulatory partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Drew advises clients in a variety of transactional and regulatory matters involving electric power and related commodities, including matters under the jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the Department of Energy (DOE), state public utility commissions, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Drew has counseled clients in regional transmission organization tariff disputes, worked to secure FERC approval for mergers and acquisitions under Federal Power Act (FPA) section 203, advised on regulatory risks in natural gas and oil pipeline investments, counseled on Natural Gas Act (NGA) regulations and policies, supported electric rate proceedings under the FPA, and assisted clients in receiving natural gas and electric export authorizations. He has also provided nuclear regulatory counsel for mergers, acquisitions and international trade matters. Drew regularly provides advice regarding compliance with the FPA, the NGA, the Interstate Commerce Act, the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005, the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act, the Atomic Energy Act and agency implementing regulations under each statute. · Energy Regulatory

Andrew Wright

Andrew is a leading member of the corporate practice at Kirkland & Ellis and is internationally recognized as one of the world’s leading attorneys in the field of private investment funds. Clients turn to him for counsel when facing their most novel, complex and high-stakes firm-level decisions related to their funds and management companies, including business strategy, legal and regulatory risk assessment, new product development and growth, high-stakes investor relations issues and other extraordinary business-related, fundraising and operational matters. · Private Investment Funds

Andrew Zutz

Andrew Zutz is an investment funds partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Andrew focuses his practice on the investment management industry, primarily representing registered investment companies and their investment advisers and boards of directors with respect to a wide variety of regulatory, compliance, securities law, governance and fiduciary matters. Andrew Zutz is an investment funds partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Andrew focuses his practice on the investment management industry, primarily representing registered investment companies and their investment advisers and boards of directors with respect to a wide variety of regulatory, compliance, securities law, governance and fiduciary matters. The clients with whom Andrew works include all types of registered funds, including traditional open-end mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, money market funds, sub-advised funds and closed-end funds (including interval funds and tender offer funds). As regular outside counsel, Andrew advises registered funds on various aspects of the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and other applicable federal securities laws during all stages of fund operation, including product development and fund formation matters and on-going SEC regulatory, compliance and registration requirements. Andrew also counsels fund independent directors on oversight matters, including with respect to their fiduciary and oversight responsibilities, and he regularly advises investment advisers on various aspects of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 in connection with a broad range of regulatory and transactional matters. · Investment Funds

Andris Rimsa

Andris Rimsa is an antitrust and competition partner in the Brussels office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Andris advises clients on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious antitrust matters and merger control in an international context, with a focus on EU competition law and regulation. · Antitrust

Andy Veit

Andy’s practice focuses on leveraged financings and investments in the energy industry. He represents leading private equity sponsors, public and private corporate borrowers and alternative capital providers, as well as debtors and creditors in the restructuring of distressed companies. Andy’s experience consists of a wide variety of complex financings, including acquisition financings, asset- and reserve-based financings and syndicated facilities. · Leveraged Finance

Ann-Kathrin Ziegler

Ann-Kathrin Ziegler is a restructuring partner in the Munich office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. She focuses on cross-border restructurings advising both debtors and creditors on acquisitions, disposals and reorganizations of stressed and distressed businesses. · Restructuring

Anna Rotman

Anna is an accomplished first-chair trial lawyer who represents plaintiffs and defendants nationwide in high-stakes and complex business, environmental, products liability and restructuring disputes in state and federal courts, as well as in arbitrations. Chambers describes her a “go-to litigator in energy-sector disputes,” praising her as an “exceptional advocate” with commanding courtroom presence and practical judgment. She also advises boards, in-house counsel and executives on litigation strategy and corporate governance. A Texas Lawyer “Woman in Energy,” Anna has helped shape landmark cases across the energy industry. · Business Litigation

Anna Schwander

Dr. Anna Schwander is a corporate partner in the Munich office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. She advises clients on all aspects of corporate law and focuses in particular on capital markets transactions and general capital market advice as well as foreign trade law. Anna advises issuers and financial sponsors on capital markets transactions including IPOs, right offerings, private placements and block trades, as well as the issuance of high yield bonds and convertible bonds. She also advises corporations and their bodies on general capital market and stock corporation law. Furthermore, Anna is a member of our International Trade and National Security practice group and advises companies and financial investors on cross border transactions as well as public takeovers with regard to foreign trade law. · Corporate Law

Anne Kim

Anne Kim is a partner in the Tax Department. Anne’s practice focuses on advising public and private companies in both taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, cross-border transactions, formation of joint ventures and debt restructurings. She also advises clients on the tax aspects of capital markets transactions, bankruptcy and fund restructurings and recapitalizations. · Tax

Anthony Sexton

Anthony Sexton is a tax partner in Kirkland’s Chicago office. The principal focus of Anthony’s practice is representing debtors, creditors, and potential investors in connection with all aspects of in- and out-of-court restructuring transactions, special situations and financings (including liability management transactions), the interpretation and application of tax sharing agreements, and other complex structuring issues. Anthony is widely recognized as a leading practitioner on tax issues faced by distressed companies. He has obtained several novel private letter rulings from the Internal Revenue Service to optimize the tax outcomes for his restructuring clients, has been listed as a “Bankruptcy Tax Specialist in the Nation’s Major Law Firms” by Turnarounds & Workouts since 2018, has been listed as a leading lawyer and “noted for his tax work as it relates to bankruptcies and restructurings” since the 2022 edition of Chambers USA, and has been recognized by The Legal 500 United States. Anthony frequently speaks at conferences, writes articles, and participates in the drafting of comment letters regarding the tax matters that are relevant to distressed companies, and is an editor for Colliers on Bankruptcy Taxation. Additionally, he is currently a member of the Committee on Government Submissions of the ABA Tax Section, with responsibility for submissions made by the Corporate; Affiliated and Related Corporations; and Tax Collection, Bankruptcy and Workouts Committees, and was previously Chair of the Affiliated and Related Corporations Committee of the ABA Tax Section (2021–2022). He is also a member of the planning committee for the University of Chicago Federal Tax Conference, teaches courses on the taxation of bankrupt companies and general business planning at the University of Chicago Law School, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Taxpayers' Federation of Illinois. Prior to joining Kirkland, Anthony clerked for the Honorable Frank H. Easterbrook of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. · Tax

Anthony Speier

Anthony Speier is a corporate partner in the Houston and Austin offices of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. His practice focuses on acquisitions, divestitures and formation of joint ventures involving assets across the energy value chain. Anthony has represented clients in connection with the purchase and sale of a broad range of energy assets, including metals critical to commercial battery production and the EV market, upstream and midstream oil and gas assets and companies, refineries, LNG facilities, processing and fractionation facilities and specialty chemicals businesses. · Energy Transactions

Anup Sathy

Anup Sathy is an internationally recognized practitioner who advises companies, boards, investors, sponsors and lenders on balance sheet and capital structure solutions, workouts and corporate restructurings, including liability management transactions, refinancings, exchanges, out-of-court restructurings and court-supervised reorganizations. Over a career that spans more than 30 years, Anup has been involved in many of the country’s largest and most complicated transactions and has restructured well over $100 billion of debt obligations across virtually every industry and business segment. Described as a “phenomenal lawyer” who is “intellectually gifted” and “a great problem solver,” Anup has been recognized by Chambers USA as one of America’s Leading Lawyers for Business in Bankruptcy/Restructuring for more than 20 years. In recent editions, sources applauded Anup as “a really superb lawyer who is practical and creative.” Clients also noted his “brilliant legal insight” and “incredibly strategic approach.” He is described as someone “with a global reach” and “absolute integrity” who is “not only a great lawyer, but a business strategist” and “great in a courtroom and the boardroom.” · Restructuring

Armand Della Monica

Armand is one of the leading members of Kirkland’s corporate practice and was a founding partner of the Firm’s Boston office after spending the first 20 years of his legal career in the Firm’s New York office. He represents large and middle-market private equity funds and their portfolio companies in a wide variety of transactions, including public and private acquisitions, divestitures, minority and growth equity financings, joint ventures and restructurings. He regularly counsels clients on corporate governance, securities law and strategic matters. Representative industries include health care, technology, media, business services, consumer products and retail, financial services, logistics/transportation services and manufacturing. · Corporate Law

Asheesh Goel

Asheesh Goel is one of the leaders of Kirkland’s government & internal investigations practice and serves on the Firm’s Executive Committee. Asheesh advises clients on securities enforcement matters, including internal investigations, government investigations and enforcement actions. Asheesh has developed substantial depth on enforcement matters and transactional issues involving the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other related laws, financial statement and disclosure issues, insider trading and other securities enforcement issues. · Government & Internal Investigations

Ashley Gregory

Ashley is a partner in Kirkland’s corporate department and focuses her practice on debt financings. She primarily represents public and private corporate borrowers and private equity clients in connection with complex financing transactions, both secured and unsecured, including leveraged acquisition financings, senior and subordinated lending transactions, second lien, mezzanine and asset-based financings, debtor-in-possession facilities, workouts and restructurings, and other banking and credit matters. Financings range across sectors and in size from tens of millions to in excess of $7 billion. · Debt Finance

Atif Khawaja

Atif Khawaja litigates high-stakes commercial disputes. For more than twenty years, he has tried and won bet-the-company cases across industries and subject matters—from existential disputes surrounding corporate control and investments, to multibillion dollar commercial disputes, to expansive claims of product liability, IP infringement and regulatory violation. Atif has successfully led matters in forums nationwide involving complex claims of antitrust, appraisal, breach of contract, fiduciary duty, fraud and misrepresentation, patent infringement, trade secret theft and unfair competition. Based in New York, Atif is sought out by prominent businesses across the globe when facing material U.S. litigation. He is known for pragmatic solutions, and his matters routinely garner press and public attention, including in The New York Times, Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal. · Antitrust

Attila Oldag

Attila Oldag is a retired partner in the Munich office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. With his many years of in-depth experience, Attila focused on domestic and cross-border M&A as well as private equity transactions. In addition, Attila regularly advised on joint venture transactions, corporate reorganizations and selected capital markets issues. He advised German and foreign corporations as well as financial sponsors. · Mergers and Acquisitions

Aulden Burcher-DuPont

Aulden Burcher-DuPont is a partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. His practice in internal and government investigations and complex commercial litigation focuses on electronic discovery strategy and data management and protection. · Internal Investigations

Austin Witt

Austin Witt is a debt finance partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Austin represents borrowers, sponsors, direct lenders, distressed investors and creditors in a wide range of restructurings, liability management matters, direct lending transactions, rescue financings, DIP financings, exit financings and other high-yield financing transactions. He is particularly experienced in advising clients in credit opportunities and special situations transactions, and he has worked on some of the largest and most sophisticated distressed transactions in history. · Debt Finance

Benjamin Clinger

Benjamin represents private equity firms in connection with acquisitions and divestitures across a wide range of sectors. Now based out of the Firm’s Bay Area office, Benjamin was a founding partner of the Firm’s Houston office which opened in 2014. Benjamin has handled matters on behalf of Olympus Partners, Pritzker Group Private Capital, Peak Rock Capital, Gryphon Investors, Parthenon Capital Partners, Solamere Capital, Blackstone, Bain Capital, Madison Dearborn Partners, GTCR and Intermediate Capital Group (ICG). · Private Equity

Benjamin Leyendecker

Ben Leyendecker is a corporate partner in the Munich office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. He focuses on M&A and private equity transactions. · Private Equity

Bernadette Coppola

Bernadette Coppola is a technology & IP transactions partner in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Bernadette’s practice focuses on technology, intellectual property, and data-related transactions and counseling, including mergers and acquisitions, outsourcing and services agreements, SaaS agreements, technology development agreements, supply chain agreements, intellectual property licensing arrangements, debt financing and bankruptcy matters, joint ventures, and strategic alliances. Bernadette’s practice also includes counseling clients on data security and data privacy matters. Bernadette has counseled clients in transactions involving a variety of industries including media and entertainment, consumer products, software and services, healthcare, fitness and wellness, and food and beverage. · Technology Transactions

Bob Allen

Bob Allen is a partner in Kirkland & Ellis LLP’s Litigation and Government, Regulatory & Internal Investigations practice groups. His practice focuses on representing corporations and executives in regulatory and criminal investigations, internal investigations, corporate governance matters and complex litigation. He has represented some of the largest companies and many senior executives in their most significant matters, achieving successful resolutions and victories. Clients have called him “absolutely fantastic,” “thoughtful” and “incredibly intelligent” per Chambers & Partners (2025). Before joining Kirkland, Bob served in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. As a member of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Taskforce, Bob investigated and prosecuted securities fraud, accounting fraud, insider trading and other white-collar cases along with partners at the SEC, CFTC and elsewhere. During his tenure as a prosecutor, Bob tried seven cases to a verdict, winning convictions in every instance, and successfully argued many appeals before the Second Circuit. Bob has been recognized by Chambers USA, The Legal 500 U.S., Benchmark Litigation and earlier in his career by Law360 as a “Rising Star.” Bob graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was President of the Harvard Law Review and a recipient of the Sears Prize for having the highest first-year grades. Bob clerked for the Honorable Antonin Scalia of the United States Supreme Court and the Honorable Michael Boudin of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Bob has served as a guest lecturer on white collar matters at several law schools writes and regularly speaks and writes on similar matters. · Litigation

Bradley Weidenhammer

Brad Weidenhammer represents clients in federal and state trial and appellate courts and arbitrations throughout the United States. Brad represents clients on the plaintiff and defense side in a variety of practice areas, including complex commercial disputes, environmental and toxic torts, products liability, and consumer fraud. · Complex Commercial Disputes

Brandon Brown

Brandon Brown is a trial lawyer, with particular experience in high-tech patent, trade secret, and copyright intellectual property litigation in U.S. Federal Courts and at the International Trade Commission. Brandon has successfully led and managed trial teams to jury and bench trial victories and is routinely recognized for his work in high-profile intellectual property matters. American Lawyer has twice named Brandon and his team “Litigators of the Week” for securing multi-hundred-million trial verdicts, highlighting Brandon’s ability to “adeptly present complex technical information” to a jury. The Legal 500 praised Brandon as a “rising star in IP litigation,” highlighting his “very smooth demeanor” and “excellent ability to question witnesses in the courtroom.” Clients have praised his “extremely sophisticated approach and strategy” to pre-trial and trial strategy, while others described him as an “excellent strategist, writer, and oral advocate.” The Recorder honored Brandon as one of its “Lawyers on the Fast Track,” awarded to lawyers under forty. Super Lawyers also lists Brandon as a “Rising Star” and Benchmark Litigation lists Brandon as a “Future Star.” · Patent Litigation

Brendan Head

Brendan primarily represents buyout funds and their portfolio companies in domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers, leveraged buyouts, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and corporate restructurings. Brendan has been responsible for structuring, negotiating, documenting and closing transactions in a variety of industries including distribution, food and beverage, specialty chemicals, sports and media, healthcare, technology, business services and manufacturing. Brendan’s practice also includes representing parties in strategic transactions involving professional sports teams in the world’s major sports leagues including Major League Baseball and the National Basketball Association. · Mergers & Acquisitions

Brian Ford

Brian Ford represents private equity firms, commercial lending institutions and other private and public companies in connection with the negotiation, structuring and documentation of secured and unsecured financing transactions for both borrowers and lenders, including senior, mezzanine and subordinated debt transactions, acquisition financings, dividend recapitalizations and loan workouts and restructurings, including debtor-in-possession and exit financings. Brian has led more than $20 billion of the most complicated and highest-profile financings over the last year. · Private Equity

Brian Land

Of Counsel with more than 30 years of experience in the environmental aspects of corporate transactions, including environmental due diligence, environmental liability and risk allocation, financings, restructurings, public offerings, and SEC environmental disclosure. Negotiates indemnities and insurance coverage for complex environmental risks. Enforces environmental indemnification rights and manages the post-sale resolution of environmental issues. Advises and counsels on remediation and cleanup matters, including under CERCLA, RCRA, and state cleanup programs. Counsels clients regarding environmental regulatory compliance matters. · Environmental Law

Brigham Cannon

Brigham represents corporate and individual clients in white collar and regulatory defense matters, including involving the FCPA, securities laws and the False Claims Act. Brigham frequently represents his clients before the Department of Justice, the SEC, state Attorneys General and other regulatory agencies. He also regularly leads internal investigations, advises companies on the effectiveness of their compliance programs, and assists companies who are facing investigations by enforcement agencies outside the United States. · White Collar Criminal Defense