Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Stephen Ritchie focuses on complex business transactions, with a particular emphasis on structuring, negotiating and managing the legal aspects of mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, venture capital and growth equity investments, restructurings and workouts. He has handled private equity, LBO, growth equity, and merger and acquisition transactions for clients including GTCR, TCV, Chicago Growth Partners, Evergreen Pacific Partners, Wind Point Partners, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Public Sector Pension Plan, Solera Holdings and their respective portfolio companies. He has served as a member of the Firm’s global executive management committee.

University of Virginia, B.A., 1985; University of Chicago, J.D., 1988.