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Walter Holzer

Walt Holzer is a partner in Kirkland's Chicago office focusing on complex business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, buyouts, recapitalizations, divestitures, venture capital and growth equity investing, and executive compensation. He has handled numerous transactions in a wide variety of industries for private equity, family office and strategic clients, including The Riverside Company, Resilience Capital Partners, The Heritage Group, Incline Equity Partners, Align Capital Partners, Driehaus Private Equity, Fort Point Capital Partners and Solera Holdings. · Kirkland & Ellis LLP

United StatesMergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity
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Walt Holzer is a partner in Kirkland & Ellis LLP's Chicago office focusing on complex business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, buyouts, recapitalizations, divestitures, venture capital and growth equity investing, and executive compensation. He has handled numerous transactions in a wide variety of industries for private equity, family office and strategic clients, including The Riverside Company, Resilience Capital Partners, The Heritage Group, Incline Equity Partners, Align Capital Partners, Driehaus Private Equity, Fort Point Capital Partners and Solera Holdings.

Practice areas

Mergers and AcquisitionsPrivate EquityVenture CapitalGrowth EquityExecutive CompensationBuyoutsRecapitalizationsDivestitures

Office

United States

Kirkland & Ellis LLP · Walt Holzer is a partner in Kirkland's Chicago office focusing on complex business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, buyouts, recapitalizations, divestitures, venture capital and growth equity investing, and executive compensation. He has handled numerous transactions in a wide variety of industries for private equity, family office and strategic clients, including The Riverside Company, Resilience Capital Partners, The Heritage Group, Incline Equity Partners, Align Capital Partners, Driehaus Private Equity, Fort Point Capital Partners and Solera Holdings.

United States

Expertise

Complex Business TransactionsMergers and AcquisitionsPrivate EquityFamily Office RepresentationStrategic Client Representation

Education

  • The Ohio State University, B.S., 1991
  • Capital University, J.D., magna cum laude, 1995