Marcus Thompson > Kirkland & Ellis International LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Highly regarded for its risk advisory capabilities, the government, regulatory, and internal investigations offering at Kirkland & Ellis International LLP stands out for its strength in handling non-financial misconduct investigations, an area of recent focus for the group. Marcus Thompson leads the team and is a seasoned financial crime specialist, with particular expertise advising private equity clients on business crime and risk mitigation. Patrick Navein’s expertise encompasses corporate compliance, money laundering issues, and economic sanctions; the latter is another core pillar of work for the group, with Shruti Chandhok being another name to note here. Satnam Tumani and Andrew Butel left the team in December 2023.

Leveraging the firm’s market-leading transactional offering in the private equity space, Kirkland & Ellis International LLP provides ‘practical and commercially-oriented advice’ to some of these clients, and their associated portfolio companies, on any contentious regulatory issues that may arise. The team is, however, by no means limited to this segment of the market and handles complex internal investigations on non-financial misconduct issues. The ‘very client friendly and uber responsive’ Julia Dixon has been pivotal to the firm’s success since joining several years ago from Linklaters LLP, combining both contentious and broader regulatory advisory prowess. Marcus Thompson co-heads the team alongside Dixon and provides ‘commercially very astute advice’ to clients on business-related criminal matters, including anti-money laundering, anti-bribery and corruption.