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Paul Tanaka

Paul Tanaka

Kirkland & Ellis LLP, United States

Position

Paul leads Kirkland’s Global Environmental Practice, serving as head environmental counsel for a large number of private equity firms and public companies. Paul’s clients rely on him to identify and strategically manage environmental regulatory compliance and other environmental liabilities. He is a big-picture thinker and creative problem solver that clients count on to be both commercial and practical, and to create bespoke and efficient solutions for everything from environmental crises to more routine matters of compliance and governance and all aspects of transactions.

Education

Claremont McKenna College, B.A., Government, 1997. University of Hawai'i School of Law, J.D., 2000.

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