Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Nadia Murad is a partner in the Investment Funds Group where her practice focuses on the formation, structuring and management of premier private equity funds, hybrid (private equity / hedge) funds, fund-of-funds, co-invest funds, alternative investment vehicles, private investment and family office vehicles, and their management companies. Nadia has been one of the primary attorneys on numerous fund formation matters across a variety of fund strategies, with aggregate capital raised totaling in the tens of billions of dollars. She also has been a lead attorney advising clients on acquisition structuring, structured secondaries, spin-outs, and the establishment and restructuring of firm internal arrangements, admission and separation agreements, and succession planning. In addition, she has extensive corporate counseling experience and has counseled clients on a wide range of ongoing operational issues including regulatory and compliance, ESG and impact investing, limited partner transfers, confidentiality agreements, cross-fund transactions, conflicts and investor relations matters.

University of Michigan Law School, J.D., cum laude; Northwestern University, B.A., Economics, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.