Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Matthew O'Brien is a corporate partner in the Firm's Chicago office. Matthew represents private equity sponsors and public and private company clients in mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, going-private transactions, joint ventures, divestitures, private financings, recapitalizations and restructurings, and in related corporate governance, executive compensation and general corporate matters. Matthew joined Kirkland in 2006, has been a partner since 2012 and was selected by The Deal as a “Rising Star” M&A attorney in 2019.