News About Kirkland & Ellis
Sullivan & Cromwell adds Kirkland’s Asimacopoulos and ex-Weil office head Francies in London
Restructuring specialist Kon Asimacopoulos will co-head London office; corporate heavyweight Francies is lured out of retirement
Kirkland, Simpson Thacher steer Blackstone’s $6.5bn Enverus buy
Simpson Thacher guides Blackstone in acquisition of Kirkland-repped data analytics energy intelligence platform
Kirkland, Slaughter and May guide Reckitt’s $4.8bn Essential Home sale to Advent
Kirkland acts for marquee client Advent as Slaughters counsels Reckitt in deal meant to help revamp its portfolio and sharpen focus on core brands
Trio of top M&A firms guide CoreWeave’s $9bn Core Scientific AI acquisition
David Polk and Kirkland & Ellis advise CoreWeave as Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz acts for Core Scientific in deal to meet AI power needs
Vinson & Elkins makes trio of US partner hires from Kirkland & Ellis and Baker Botts
New recruits include funds partners Samuel Francis and Reed Schuster and finance lawyer Caitlin Lawrence
Three firms steer Kimberly-Clark sale of majority stake in international tissue unit to Brazil’s Suzano
Kirkland & Ellis and Baker McKenzie guide Kleenex tissue-maker Kimberly-Clark as Freshfields counsels Suzano
Kirkland & Ellis adds M&A partner trio in Boston from Skadden
Rainmaker Graham Robinson joins with two more partners and around 15 associates
‘Absurd’: Judge overturns executive order against WilmerHale
Ruling follows similar orders against Perkins Coie and Jenner & Block being struck down earlier this month
Latham & Watkins, Paul Weiss lead on Skechers’ $9.4bn sale to 3G Capital
Kirkland & Ellis and Sullivan & Cromwell also called in for footwear industry’s biggest buyout to date
Kirkland, Mayer Brown act in Boeing’s $10.55bn sale of tech assets to Thoma Bravo
Kirkland counsels Thoma Bravo as Mayer Brown acts for Boeing in deal jet maker says will enable it to focus on core business
Kirkland’s revenue hits $8.8bn as PEP grows 16%
Chicago giant again sets turnover record for Am Law 100 as profits per equity partner climb to $9.25m
Paul Hastings targets big-ticket public M&A with hire of Kirkland deals star in New York
Eric Schiele’s arrival as global M&A co-chair described as ‘major leap forward’ in fulfilling M&A ambitions
Keystone Law adds partners from Kirkland, Memery Crystal in latest hiring round
Platform firm continues to attract talent from top firms as it continues hiring push
Herbert Smith Freehills makes twin disputes hire in Hong Kong from Kirkland, Latham
Paul Quinn and Truman Mak join as partners in the firm’s commercial litigation team
Kirkland expands in Saudi Arabia with funds hire from Morgan Lewis
Nabil Abou-Charaf joins as a partner in Riyadh after almost six years with Morgan Lewis in the UAE
Kirkland recruits Skadden mass tort team for Philadelphia debut
Highly-regarded trial lawyer Allison Brown joins with four more partners
Kirkland, Latham, White & Case shepherd Constellation Energy’s $26.6bn Calpine acquisition
Deal will create largest low-emission energy supplier in the US
Kirkland tops global 2024 M&A rankings ahead of Skadden
Deal value jumps 10% in 2024 to $3.2trn with volume down 14% to 50,200
Debevoise, Nishimura called in for Nippon Life’s $8.2bn Resolution Life acquisition
Kirkland & Ellis and Herbert Smith Freehills also among nine law firm’s called in for the largest takeover by a Japanese insurer
Kirkland recruits fund finance heavyweight from Clifford Chance in London
Andrew Husdan’s arrival follows Kirkland hiring first structured finance partner in London last month