Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Investment Funds

Amala Ejikeme is a partner in the Investment Funds Group at Kirkland & Ellis International LLP and focuses on advising European and global sponsors on the establishment of private funds pursuing a wide variety of investment strategies (including buyout, credit, growth, impact, infrastructure, real estate and venture).

Amala has advised sponsors on traditional private equity fund structures, as well as structures incorporating long-dated, evergreen, open-ended, multiple currency, and levered/unlevered arrangements. He routinely advises clients on the formation of separately managed accounts, co-investments, as well as on management company issues and carried interest arrangements. He has also advised on strategic firm transactions and extraordinary events, such as investor default and founder separations.

2016 to present Kirkland & Ellis International LLP; 2011-2014 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP; 2008-2011 Allen & Overy

College of Law, London (Legal Practice Course 2008); London School of Economics and Political Science (LL.B. First Class Hons. 2007)