Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Gerald Nowak is a partner in the Firm’s Chicago office. He joined Kirkland in 1993 and became a partner in 1999. Gerald has a broad transactional practice focused on representing public companies and private equity funds. In 2014, he was selected to The International Who's Who of Mergers & Acquisition Lawyers. He has been identified as a “SuperLawyer” in Law & Politics Magazine’s annual review and has been identified as a top high yield debt practitioner in The Legal 500’s annual review of Corporate & Finance attorneys.

University of Michigan Law School, J.D., 1993, Articles Editor, Michigan Journal of International Law, Published two notes in separate U of M legal journals; Auburn University, M.B.A., 1990; Michigan State University, B.A., Economic Policy Analysis, 1986.