Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Yosef Riemer is a litigation partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, which was named "Litigation Department of the Year" by The American Lawyer. He has extensive experience as lead trial and appellate counsel for a broad group of clients, handling their most significant disputes including: breach of contract claims; antitrust cases; litigation over M&A and corporate control matters; securities, fraud and class action litigation; trade secret cases; RICO actions; and contested restructuring matters. He has achieved consistently strong results, whether by winning litigation on pretrial motions, in victories at trial in Federal and State courts and before arbitrators, or in negotiating favorable settlements.

Law Clerk to The Honorable Oliver Gasch, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 1984-1985. Law Clerk to The Honorable Spottswood W. Robinson, III, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1985-1986.

The George Washington University Law School (J.D., 1984, summa cum laude, first in class); Brandeis University (B.A., 1978, cum laude).