Polina Liberman

Polina is a partner in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. She advises clients on a broad range of complex corporate and commercial tax matters with a particular focus on private equity and insurance industry transactions including domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, separations, joint ventures, recapitalizations and debt and equity restructurings. Polina has worked on numerous private equity, LBO and merger and acquisition transactions ranging from several million dollars to several billion dollars for clients including: Audax Group, Bain Capital, CIVC, GTCR, Flexpoint Ford, Levine Leichtman, Waud Capital and others. She has also represented distressed public and private companies in connection with bankruptcy and restructuring transactions. · Kirkland & Ellis LLP

United StatesCorporate Tax, Private Equity

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Partner in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP advising on complex corporate and commercial tax matters, particularly for private equity and insurance industry transactions including domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, separations, joint ventures, recapitalizations, and debt and equity restructurings. Has represented clients such as Audax Group, Bain Capital, CIVC, GTCR, Flexpoint Ford, Levine Leichtman, Waud Capital, and others. Also represented distressed public and private companies in bankruptcy and restructuring transactions.

Practice areas

Corporate TaxPrivate EquityInternational Tax

Office

United States

Kirkland & Ellis LLP · Polina is a partner in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. She advises clients on a broad range of complex corporate and commercial tax matters with a particular focus on private equity and insurance industry transactions including domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, separations, joint ventures, recapitalizations and debt and equity restructurings. Polina has worked on numerous private equity, LBO and merger and acquisition transactions ranging from several million dollars to several billion dollars for clients including: Audax Group, Bain Capital, CIVC, GTCR, Flexpoint Ford, Levine Leichtman, Waud Capital and others. She has also represented distressed public and private companies in connection with bankruptcy and restructuring transactions.

United States

Expertise

Domestic and cross-border mergersAcquisitionsLeveraged buyoutsSeparationsJoint venturesRecapitalizationsDebt and equity restructuringsBankruptcy and restructuring

Education

Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2010
Yale University, M.S., Environmental Engineering, 2007
Northwestern University, B.S., Environmental Engineering, cum laude, 2003