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Adam Watterson is a restructuring partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Adam has experience advising debtors and creditors on cross-border restructurings and insolvencies, administrations, CVAs and schemes of arrangement.

Adam Skinner

Adam Skinner is a regulatory partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Adam has experience in financial regulation and funds matters, with a particular focus on the regulatory issues arising within the private investment fund industry. Adam’s work includes interpretation of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA) as well as the rules of the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority. Adam also advises on the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive amongst other European legislation and has assisted with the establishment of new investment businesses in the UK, and the management of regulatory issues in connection with transactions.

Adrian Maguire

Adrian Maguire is a corporate partner in Kirkland’s London office. He focuses on advising financial investor clients on all aspects of their investments, from initial acquisition, through to ultimate exit, whether by way of a sale or IPO.

Alan Skerritt

Alan Skerritt is an investment funds partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Alan principally advises private equity sponsors and investment managers on the establishment and operation of closed and open-ended funds, co-investments and joint ventures in the real estate sector.

Alasdair Balfour

Alasdair Balfour is an antitrust and regulatory partner in Kirkland's London office. His practice covers all aspects of antitrust, foreign investment and national security and regulatory law, with a particular emphasis on securing approvals for transactions.

Aleksander Bakic

Aleksander Bakic is an investment funds partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. He advises clients on the structuring and negotiation of a wide range of secondary transactions, from fund book deals to GP and LP-led restructurings of single assets or wider portfolios. Aleks has particular experience in highly complex, cross-border transactions involving management spin-outs, stapled, syndicated and tendered deals, as well as deferred consideration. In addition, Aleks works with private equity funds and their investors on a wide range of investment funds matters. His experience spans across private equity, infrastructure and credit products, in established and developing markets.

Alex Amos

Alex advises a wide range of asset managers and investors on alternative funds. His particular focus is on credit strategies. This ranges from primary funds, SMAs, joint ventures, pledge funds, co-investment vehicles and other alternatives to the traditional widely held blind pool fund model.

Alex Brodkin

Alex Brodkin is a partner in the Investment Funds Group in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Alex advises and represents private fund manager European and global clients in relation to all aspects of the structuring, negotiation and operation of private investment funds across a broad range of asset classes and investment strategies (including buyout, credit, life insurance, and infrastructure).

Alexander Cox

Alexander Cox is a partner in Kirkland & Ellis' London office. His practice focuses on the structuring of investment funds, including advising in relation to management company tax issues and carried interest. He also has significant experience advising on real estate tax matters covering both the establishment of real estate funds and the M&A transactions they undertake.

Alvaro Membrillera

Alvaro Membrillera is a partner in the Transactional Practice Group in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. His practice focuses on M&A transactions, particularly in the private equity space. Alvaro has extensive experience in transactions across a wide range of European jurisdictions and has led teams representing private equity firms on a broad range of complex, cross-border matters including public to privates, consortium deals, minority investments, carve-outs and disposals.

Amala Ejikeme

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.

Amy Fox

Amy Fox is an investment funds partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Amy primarily represents sponsors on the formation and operation of private investment funds across a broad range of investment strategies, and other aspects of private investing in alternative asset classes, including separate account arrangements and co-investments. Amy’s practice also includes advising clients on secondary transactions, management company transactions and complex carried interest, sponsor co-investment and similar incentive arrangements.

Anand Damodaran

Anand Damodaran is an investment funds partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Anand primarily advises private investment fund sponsors on the formation of credit, private equity and real estate funds. He also advises on the establishment of carried interest and co-investment schemes, secondaries and strategic fund sponsor transactions.

André Duminy

Partner

Andrew Shore

Andy Shore is an investment funds partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Andy primarily advises private investment fund sponsors in relation to the structuring and establishment of private investment funds investing across all major alternative investment strategies in addition to the carried interest and co-investment plans associated with such funds. Andy also advises on a broad range of other transactions relating to private investment funds including secondary transactions, fund restructurings, co-investment arrangements, management team spin-outs and management company transactions.

Andrew Butel

Andrew Butel is a partner in the Government, Regulatory & Internal Investigations Practice Group in London. Andrew’s practice focuses on representing companies and individuals in investigations across a range of corporate crime matters, including violations of anti-bribery laws and economic sanctions.

Antoine Lebienvenu

Antoine Lebienvenu is a capital markets partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. He has experience in U.S. and international finance, capital markets transactions and mergers and acquisitions. Antoine has represented issuers, sponsors and investment banks with respect to high yield debt offerings, registered debt and equity offerings, investment grade offerings, restructurings, consent solicitations and private placements.

Athina Van Melkebeke

Athina Van Melkebeke is a partner in the Antitrust and Competition Team based in the London and Brussels offices. Her practice focuses on antitrust law, particularly merger control, antitrust compliance, and cartel and abuse of dominance investigations. Athina also has extensive experience advising on foreign investment screening. She has practiced in Brussels, Washington, DC, and London and has been involved in matters before the European Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as various national competition authorities.

Benjamin Harding

Benjamin Harding is an investment funds partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Benjamin primarily advises private investment fund sponsors in relation to the structuring and establishment of investment arrangements across a broad range of alternative investment strategies, with particular focus on real estate and infrastructure. Benjamin advises on a wide range of investment arrangements. In addition to traditional fund structures, he routinely advises on consortia, separately managed accounts, co-investments and joint ventures. He advises throughout the entire life cycle of an investment arrangement. Benjamin has addressed a broad range of other transactions relating to private investment funds including secondary transactions, associated carried interest and co-investment plans, fund restructurings and the acquisition and disposal of underlying fund assets.

Catherine Gokah

Catherine Gokah is a partner in the Investment Funds Group in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. She has extensive experience advising fund sponsors with respect to their core fundraising activities across multiple alternative asset classes including infrastructure, real estate and credit.

Cedric Van den Borren

Cedric Van den Borren is a finance partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Cedric has extensive experience in U.S. securities law and specifically with high-yield financings. He has advised corporate clients, sponsors and underwriters in international offerings of debt securities, corporate governance, and other corporate matters.

Ceinwen Rees

Ceinwen Rees is a tax partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. She is widely recognized as a leading UK tax lawyer, combining her extensive market knowledge with legal and tax technical experience. Ceinwen advises on a broad range of complex tax and structuring matters with a particular focus on advising investment fund managers across their life cycle, from fundraising to deployment and realization.

Celyn Evans

Celyn Evans is a corporate partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Celyn’s practice focuses on public and private mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters for financial sponsor clients in a variety of sectors with a particular emphasis on infrastructure and real estate.

Charlie Griggs

Charlie Griggs is a commercial litigation and international arbitration lawyer based in London. Charlie’s practice comprises complex and high-profile multi-jurisdictional litigation and international arbitration (commercial and investor-state).

Chris Shield

Christopher Shield is a partner in the banking and finance department of the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Christopher has banking and debt finance experience including domestic and cross-border syndicated lending, leverage acquisitions, investment grade lending and general banking.

Christopher Braunack

Christopher Braunack is an investment funds partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Christopher primarily advises private investment fund sponsors in relation to the structuring and establishment of private investment funds investing across all major alternative investment strategies in addition to the carried interest and co-investment plans associated with such funds. He also advises on a broad range of other transactions relating to private investment funds including secondary transactions, fund restructurings, co-investment arrangements, continuation vehicles, management team spin-outs and management company transactions.

Dan Stathis

Dan Stathis is a partner in the Restructuring Team in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Dan has experience acting company-side, for lenders and for insolvency officeholders in the restructuring and insolvency market on a wide range of domestic and cross-border restructurings, refinancings, enforcement situations and distressed M&A mandates.

Daniel Borg

Dan Borg is a partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. His practice primarily focuses on advising private equity sponsors across a wide range of complex and multijurisdictional financing transactions, including leveraged finance, public and private holdco financings and restructurings.

Daniel Lim

Daniel is a partner in Kirkland's IP litigation team in London. Daniel has a broad practice which covers a wide range of technical fields, but is particularly noted for his experience in life science patent litigation, particularly in the pharmaceutical industry, diagnostics and the emerging fields of precision medicine and cell and gene therapy. He is also experienced in representing clients involved in complex SEP and FRAND licensing disputes. In addition to UK litigation, Daniel is regularly called upon to assist clients in devising, coordinating and executing patent strategies for complex multijurisdictional disputes at a pan-European and global scale. With dual qualifications in law and biochemistry, and experience litigating in both Australia and Europe, Daniel is readily able to grasp highly technical material and the international dimensions of disputes which are often at the heart of effective strategies in blockbuster litigation for the most sophisticated clients. In recognition of his experience and leadership in the life sciences field, Daniel currently serves as the Vice-Chair of AIPPI’s standing committee on biotechnology.

David Eich

Partner

David Higgins

David Higgins is a partner in Kirkland’s corporate practice and a member of the Firm's Executive Committee. He advises private equity funds and other financial investor clients on all types of cross border leveraged M&A including public and private acquisitions, carve-outs, take privates, consortium deals, distressed acquisitions and disposals. David regularly acts for BC Partners, Blackstone, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Cinven, GIC (Singapore’s Sovereign Wealth Fund), Hellman & Friedman, Partners Group and The Carlyle Group.

Deirdre Haugh

Deirdre Haugh is a partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Deirdre has experience advising on UK and EU financial regulation and fund matters, including in relation to the UK Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, the rules and guidance of the UK Financial Conduct Authority and EU single market legislation such as MiFID, AIFMD and MAR.

Edward Prestwich

Edward Prestwich is a partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Edward primarily advises sponsors on the structuring, formation and operation of credit funds. He also advises on the structuring, formation and operation of private equity and infrastructure funds, as well as co-investment and carried interest arrangements.

Elaine Nolan

Elaine Nolan is a restructuring partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Elaine advises strategic investors, sponsors, insolvency practitioners, turnaround managers, directors, debtors and creditors in all forms of national and international financial restructurings and insolvencies.

Emma Shelston

Emma Shelston is a corporate partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. She advises financial investors on domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, joint ventures and restructurings, with a particular focus in the infrastructure, energy and renewable sectors.

Emma Flett

Emma L. Flett is a partner in Kirkland’s Technology & IP Transactions Practice and heads the London team. Emma's practice is focused on complex intellectual property and technology-related transactions, carve-outs and business separations and EU data protection.

Evgeny Zborovsky

Evgeny Zborovsky is a partner in the debt finance team in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. His practice focuses on advising private equity sponsors, portfolio companies and credit funds on cross border leveraged buyouts and other complex financing transactions.

Francesca Harris

Francesca is a partner in the corporate group of Kirkland’s London office. She has experience across a wide range of corporate law transactions for financial sponsor and corporate clients, with a focus on public and private acquisitions, including cross-border deals.

Frixos Hatjantonas

Frixos Hatjantonas is a corporate tax partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Frixos advises on the UK and international tax aspects of a broad range of transactions, including M&A, debt finance, complex restructurings and private fund formation. Frixos is also experienced in advising on tax disputes and on obtaining bespoke insurance cover for tax liability risks.

George Dyesmith

George Dyesmith is a debt finance partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP.

Hannah Crawford

Hannah Crawford is a restructuring partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Hannah has experience in cross-border restructurings advising debtors, creditors and strategic investors on restructurings of stressed and distressed businesses. Hannah also has experience advising leading credit funds in relation to their due diligence and review of European investment opportunities in stressed and distressed situations.

Ian Barratt

Ian Barratt is a debt finance partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Ian's practice focuses on domestic and cross-border acquisition financing and other leveraged finance transactions.

Ian Ferreria

Ian Ferreira is a tax partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Ian advises on a wide range of UK and international tax matters; in particular, private fund structuring, real estate fund structuring, cross-border corporate and private equity M&A, and complex cross-border restructurings.

Jack Bodkin

Jack Bodkin is a debt finance partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Jack’s experience focuses on fund finance acting for borrowers and sponsors (both domestic and international) in connection with the full spectrum of fund finance liquidity solutions including NAV and hybrid facilities, subscription line facilities and GP support lines.

James Boswell

James Boswell is a debt finance partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. He advises financial sponsors and borrowers on a wide range of complex financing transactions across the energy and infrastructure sector.

James McGivern

James McGivern is a debt finance partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. He has extensive experience in core and regulated infrastructure financing across loans, public bonds, private placements and derivatives, regularly advising borrowers on all aspects of their complex whole business securitisations and multi-source financing platforms.

James Morgan

James is a tax partner in the London office. James has a broad corporate, finance and structuring tax practice, with a particular focus on the taxation of financial institutions, debt funds and alternative credit funds.

Jia Meng

Jia Meng is a debt finance partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP.

Jin Ooi

Jin Ooi is an intellectual property litigator in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. He is experienced in patent litigation and counselling (including on complex damages inquiries) mainly in the pharmaceutical and life sciences field (second medical use, biosimilars, small molecules, DNA sequencing, vaccines, transgenic animal platforms for antibody discovery), and in the consumer products sector (shaving razors, potentially reduced-risk products including tobacco heating and vapour products, dishwashing tablets, coffee pods and capsules). He is also experienced in litigating and arbitrating trade secrets disputes in the medical devices (bone cements), tech (LNG carriers) and aviation sector (airplane components, airport businesses), in addition to handling antitrust claims (cathode ray tubes, lithium ion batteries, forklift gas).

Joel Gory

Joel Gory is a partner in the Antitrust & Competition Team based in London. Joel advises on a wide range of issues under the EU and UK competition law regimes, including merger control, foreign investment review, the EU foreign subsidies regime, antitrust advisory work, cartel investigations and competition law compliance. Joel frequently leads the coordination of merger control and foreign investment review processes for high-profile, cross-border transactions.

Jon Newman

Jon Newman is a litigation and arbitration partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Jon represents clients in commercial litigation disputes in the UK and abroad and institutional arbitrations around the world. Jon also advises clients on a range of business, white-collar crime and government and regulatory issues.

Jonathan Tadd

Jonathan Tadd is an investment funds partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Jonathan represents sponsors and investors in relation to the structuring, formation and operation of private funds with a focus on real estate funds, club arrangements and joint ventures. He has a broad range of experience across asset classes advising on blind-pool and open-ended structures, co-investment and carried interest arrangements and other private equity transactions such as restructurings, managed accounts, management team spin-outs, first time funds and liquidity solutions.

Jonathan Birks

Jonathan Birks is a partner in the debt finance practice at Kirkland & Ellis International LLP in London. His practice focuses on complex domestic and cross border real estate finance transactions for private equity and credit fund clients. Jonathan advises across the full spectrum of real estate finance matters, from loan origination and syndication, to restructuring and distressed investing.

Julia Dixon

Julia is an experienced financial services regulatory partner who advises clients on contentious regulatory investigations and proceedings, non-contentious advisory matters and transformational projects and transactions. Her broad advisory practice means that Julia regularly advises on authorisation, licensing and permission requirements for firms, the establishment of compliance programmes and arrangements for monitoring and testing, and regulatory issues and compliance with UK/EU regulation, including the promotion and marketing of financial products, conduct of business, conflicts of interest, client money and assets, market abuse and insider dealing. Julia has worked extensively with Boards, non-executive directors and executive management teams, advising on governance matters, the design and assurance of systems and controls, and oversight and implementation of material regulatory change programmes. She has worked closely with a number of institutions across the banking, insurance and asset management sectors to implement and embed the requirements of the UK Senior Managers and Certification Regime. Her contentious regulatory experience combined with time spent on secondment gives her unparalleled insight into regulatory expectations and how practically to satisfy these. She has counselled and acted for numerous clients in connection with FCA/PRA approval interviews for senior managers, FCA/PRA supervisory visits or requests for information, s166 Skilled Person reviews, internal investigations and regulatory enforcement investigations and/or inquiries undertaken by the FCA, PRA, Lloyd’s of London, ESMA and other overseas regulators. Julia has represented clients on a range of issues including authorisation requirements, conduct of business, conflicts of interest, culture, management systems and controls and non-financial misconduct.

Kate Stephenson

Kate is a partner in Kirkland’s European restructuring group. Kate has extensive restructuring and insolvency experience, including advising strategic investors, insolvency practitioners, turnaround managers, directors, debtors and creditors in all forms of national and international financial restructurings and insolvencies.

Kazik Michalski

Kazik F. Michalski is a partner in the debt finance practice at Kirkland & Ellis International LLP in London. He represents top-tier private equity sponsors in connection with complex domestic and cross-border credit transactions involving real estate investments and developments throughout Europe.

Keir MacLennan

Keir is a corporate partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. He advises private equity clients on mergers and acquisitions, carve-outs, take-privates and exits across all sectors.

Kirsteen Nicol

Kirsteen Nicol is a banking partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Her practice is primarily focused on representing sponsors and portfolio companies on complex, cross border leveraged financings. Kirsteen has a broad range of banking and debt finance experience, including syndicated and credit fund lending, leveraged acquisitions, take private transactions across Europe, corporate lending and general banking.

Kon Asimacopoulos

Kon Asimacopoulos is a partner in Kirkland's European Restructuring Group and acts for companies and investors in national and cross-border financial restructuring, insolvency and litigation matters. He has been involved in dozens of the leading global and European restructuring and litigation matters over the course of the past 20 years.

Leon Daoud

Leon Daoud is a debt finance partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Leon has a broad range of debt finance experience, with a focus on advising sponsors and corporates on syndicated and direct lending transactions, leveraged acquisitions, take privates, corporate lending and general banking matters.

Lisa Cawley

Lisa Cawley is a regulatory partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Lisa has extensive experience in financial services regulation, gained over more than 20 years practicing at the forefront of the market. Her experience includes, but is not limited to, advising clients on governance and other compliance arrangements; the establishment of new investment, banking and insurance businesses in the UK, and applications for FCA authorisation; regulatory issues arising in connection with fund structuring, particularly in relation to pan-European and global private equity funds; market abuse and insider dealing issues and the regulatory consequences of rule breaches.

Lorenza Prelz Oltramonti

Lorenza Prelz Oltramonti is an investment funds partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Lorenza advises and represents clients with respect to the establishment and operation of alternative investment funds, with a primary focus on private equity funds, credit funds and fund of funds.

Louisa Cobbe

Louisa Cobbe is an investment funds partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Louisa advises a wide range of industry stakeholders on the establishment and operation of funds and other co-investment arrangements, with a primary focus on the real estate sector.

Mallika Abidi

Mallika Abidi is a restructuring partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. She has extensive experience in advising a variety of stakeholders, including borrowers, sponsors, creditors and other market participants on cross-border restructuring transactions and insolvencies.

Marcus Thompson

Marcus Thompson is a partner in the Government & Internal Investigations Group in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. He assists corporate clients with a variety of business-related criminal matters such as anti-money laundering, anti-bribery and corruption, international sanctions, and company investigations. Marcus also advises clients on highly sensitive matters involving data breaches and workplace compliance investigations. He has particular experience in advising private equity firms and their portfolio companies on business crime and risk mitigation, including the design and implementation of compliance programmes. Marcus also represents senior individuals who are facing investigation by government agencies such as the SFO, FCA, NCA and FRC.

Mark Gardner

Mark Gardner is a partner in the Antitrust and Competition team based in London. He advises on a wide range of merger control, antitrust and compliance issues. Mark has particular experience advising on EU and multi-jurisdictional merger control, representing a range of clients including corporations and financial investors. In addition to his antitrust and competition work, Mark also advises on foreign investment controls, including the UK National Security and Investment Act.

Marwa Elborai

Marwa is a U.S.-qualified partner with extensive experience in high yield bonds and leveraged finance transactions, advising corporates, private equity, credit funds and financial institution clients across multiple jurisdictions.

Matthew Sinclair-Thomson

Matthew Sinclair-Thomson is a partner in the Antitrust and Competition Team based in Kirkland's London office. He advises on a wide range of issues under the EU and UK competition law regimes, including merger control, foreign investment review, antitrust advisory work, cartel investigations and competition law compliance.

Matthew Elliott

Matthew is a corporate partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP and a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee. His practice focuses on private equity and real estate, advising a full range of stakeholders across public and private corporate transactions, M&A, joint ventures and securities offerings.

Mavnick Nerwal

Mavnick is a corporate tax partner in the London office. He specialises in advising on public and private M&A transactions, reorganisations and reconstructions and corporate finance. Mav has a particular focus on both UK and international private equity and credit tax structuring.

Nicola Dagg

Nicola Dagg is a partner in the IP litigation team in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Nicola’s practice spans four areas: (1) strategic life sciences patent and product lifecycle advice; (2) patent litigation; (3) co-ordinating global IP enforcement/defence cases; and (4) standard essential patent (SEP) and FRAND disputes. Nicola has tried over 20 cases. Nicola has extensive experience in pharmaceutical and biologics patent litigation including blockbuster small molecule litigation against generic companies, biologics and biosimilar litigation, antibodies, immunotherapies, genetics, vaccines, diagnostics and gene therapies. Nicola also acts in market leading SEP essentiality, validity and global FRAND adjudication litigation in the tech sector. Having served as UK and European/global co-ordinating counsel for numerous strategic IP litigation cases and drawing on more than 24 years of legal, IP, life sciences and tech experience she helps clients solve their most pressing global challenges.

Noah Stewart-Ornstein

Noah is a partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis. His practice focuses on complex commercial litigation and arbitration, with a particular emphasis on joint venture and shareholder disputes, complex contractual claims and litigation with a fraud element.

Partha Kar

Partha Kar has developed a wide range of cross-border restructuring and insolvency and special situation experience over the last 18 years. He has acted for investors, financial creditors (including alternative credit funds), turnaround advisors, companies (debtors and creditors) and insolvency practitioners/appointees in multi-jurisdictional restructurings and all classes of insolvency proceedings; directors, shareholders and creditors of companies that are financially impaired or subject to solvent reorganization; and for vendors and purchasers of distressed debt or equity. Partha has worked on all stages of this work including contingency planning and strategy, negotiations, documentation, post-restructuring/appointment and the exit.

Patrick Navein

Patrick Navein is an associate in Kirkland’s Government, Regulatory & Internal Investigations Group, based in London. Patrick focuses his practice on white collar and corporate crime matters. This includes assisting companies with internal and government investigations (including those conducted by the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO), the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and the UK Financial Reporting Council (FRC)), individual defence for senior executives and compliance professionals, and devising and helping to implement effective compliance programmes. Patrick also advises a range of UK and international companies on the provisions of the UK Bribery Act, the UK Proceeds of Crime Act and related mandatory or voluntary disclosures to UK regulators. Patrick also advises private equity companies in respect of investigative, compliance and risk mitigation matters, including at portfolio companies.

Paul Sampson

Paul is an investment funds partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Paul represents sponsors and institutional investors in relation to the structuring, formation and operation of private investment funds with a focus on real assets, including infrastructure, transportation and real estate.

Peter Abbott

Peter is a tax partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Peter advises on the tax aspects of public and private M&A transactions, with a particular focus on the tax structuring of UK and international private equity transactions and related restructurings and management equity plans. Peter is a Chartered Tax Adviser and member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation. He regularly contributes to consultations with HM Revenue & Customs and HM Treasury on developments in tax legislation.

Peter Pereira

Peter Pereira is a member of the Intellectual Property Litigation team in Kirkland’s London office. He has a broad practice across all aspects of IP litigation but has particular expertise in patent litigation at both trial and appellate level. Peter’s litigation experience covers a broad range of technical fields including engineering, telecommunications and life sciences. He has significant experience acting as coordinating counsel for multijurisdictional matters, assisting clients to develop and implement their patent litigation strategies.

Peter Chandler

Peter Chandler is a partner in the Debt Finance Practice Group at Kirkland & Ellis International LLP in London. He is experienced in advising top-tier private equity sponsors on their real estate investment and development transactions, both in the UK and in numerous European jurisdictions.

Rajinder Bassi

Rajinder Bassi is head of the international litigation and arbitration group in the London office and is the Assistant General Counsel for Europe. She has represented multi-national corporations, government entities, and high profile individuals in high stakes international arbitrations and litigations around the world. These cases have involved a wide range of complex subject matters, applicable laws, and venues and have covered many industry sectors including telecoms, energy, pharmaceutical and financial services. Rajinder also serves as an arbitrator. In addition, Rajinder has conducted white collar crime investigations on a global basis.

Rebecca Perlman

Rebecca Perlman is a partner in the ESG & Impact Practice Group in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Rebecca has more than twelve years of experience advising clients on ESG-related regulation, soft law standards and voluntary compliance frameworks, ESG market disclosure and reporting, and matters relating to accredited organisations such as B Corps.

Richard Boynton

Richard Boynton is a partner in the Firm's international litigation and arbitration group in London. Richard has extensive experience leading teams representing multi-national corporations, credit funds, private equity funds and international banks in litigation and arbitration throughout the world. Richard’s cases cover a variety of sectors and laws.

Richard Watkins

Richard Watkins is an investment funds partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Richard primarily advises in relation to private equity fund structuring, carried interest, co-investment and other private equity incentive schemes and also advises on private equity transactions including secondaries, spin-outs and mergers of private equity houses.

Sally Evans

Sally is a partner in the Antitrust and Competition team based in London. Her practice covers merger control, cartel investigations and compliance advice. Sally has extensive experience in managing multi-jurisdictional merger reviews and regularly represents private equity clients, corporates and financial institutions before the European Commission and UK Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”). Sally is dual qualified in England & Wales and Brussels.

Sandipan De

Sandipan De is a partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Sandi represents financial sponsors and their affiliates and portfolio companies in complex multi-jurisdictional leveraged and acquisition financings at varying levels of the capital structure.

Sara Pickersgill

Sara Pickersgill is a corporate partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. She has over 20 years’ experience advising private equity sponsors and infrastructure funds on complex domestic and cross-border M&A transactions with a particular focus in the infrastructure, digital, energy and renewable sectors.

Sarah Ullathorne

Sarah Ullathorne is a restructuring partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Sarah's practice focuses on providing advice on stressed and distressed M&A, hybrid and complex equity, governance and shareholder solutions in the restructuring context.

Satyen Dhana

Satyen Dhana is a partner in the Antitrust & Competition Team in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Satyen has experience in EU, competition and regulatory law and has extensive experience of their application within a wide range of industries. He has advised on both UK and EU competition investigations and sector enquiries/market investigations, as well as Phase 1 and Phase 2 UK and EU merger investigations.

Sean Lacey

Sean is a partner in the restructuring group based in our London office. Sean represents investment funds, financial sponsors, financial institutions and corporate borrowers in connection with transactions across the credit spectrum, in particular, cross-border and domestic financial restructurings, special situations investments, credit-led opportunities, event-driven financings, and specialized lending transactions.

Serra Tar

Serra advises financial sponsors and developers on domestic and cross-border M&A transactions and joint ventures, with a particular focus and extensive global experience in the renewables/clean energy and infrastructure sectors and the energy transition.

Shruti Chandhok

Shruti Chandhok is a partner in the Government & Internal Investigations Group in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. She focuses on advising corporate clients that have global operations with regulator facing and internal corporate investigations, compliance counselling, and global risk assessment focusing on anti-corruption, anti-money laundering and financial sanctions regulations.

Sinead O’Shea

Sinead O’Shea is a debt finance partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. She has deep experience with a broad range of senior and subordinated financing structures, with an emphasis on infrastructure finance, leveraged acquisition finance, public to private transactions, capex roll-out facilities and syndicated corporate facilities.

Stephen Lucas

Stephen is a finance partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP and a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee. He has worked in the debt markets for over 25 years, advising on leveraged and other structured finance including recaps, bank/bond financings, distressed financings, margin loans, ABLs and other asset-backed financings.

Steven Baldwin

Steven Baldwin is a partner in Kirkland’s IP Litigation team in London with significant experience representing clients in patent, life sciences regulatory, copyright, trademark and trade secrets matters. His practice focuses primarily on complex cross-border telecommunications (SEP/FRAND) and life sciences patent disputes and former employee trade secrets cases. Steven has developed a particular interest in, and deep knowledge of, the law governing supplementary protection certificates and is recognised as a thought leader and regular writer, speaker and commentator on the topic. Steven’s case experience covers a broad range of technical fields including 3GPP, 3GPP2, DMR, TETRA and other wireless (standardised and non-standardised) mobile telecommunications technologies, organic chemistry, antibody biologics, biological product development and screening platforms, formulation science, next generation cancer treatments, and e-cigarette/vaping technologies. Steven also has significant non-contentious IP experience including billion-dollar IP portfolio purchases, global strategic IP portfolio strategies, and business-critical licensing deals, as well as advising on image rights, sponsorship and global celebrity advertising campaigns for world-renowned soccer clubs and automotive clients.

Stuart Doxford

Stuart Doxford is a litigation and arbitration partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Stuart focuses on financial markets and commercial litigation, with particular experience acting for financial institutions and asset management firms in a broad range of high value disputes.

Stuart Boyd

Stuart Boyd is a corporate partner advising private equity houses and financial sponsor clients on all manner of cross border leveraged transactions, including private acquisitions, take-privates, carve-outs, consortium deals, distressed acquisitions and exits. Stuart has advised on deals for numerous sponsors, including The Carlyle Group, Hg Capital, BC Partners, Bridgepoint, Rhône Capital and Silver Lake.

Susannah Amini

Susannah Amini is a debt finance partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. She has extensive experience in borrower-side fund finance, acting for many different funds of different asset classes on their capital call / subscription facilities, NAV lines, GP/management company facilities, leverage for secondary transactions and other more bespoke forms of fund finance.

Társis Gonçalves

Társis has experience advising private equity sponsors and secondary and strategic buyers on complex and innovative liquidity solutions transactions, such as multi/single asset continuation funds, stapled tender offers, LP portfolio sales, preferred equity, full-fund restructurings, and other types of GP-led and LP-led transactions.

Theodore Cardos

Theodore Cardos is a private funds partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Theodore’s practice primarily involves structuring, negotiating and documenting complex business transactions in the private funds secondary market, including traditional portfolio sales, structured secondaries, synthetic secondaries, stapled secondary offerings, preferred equity and fund recapitalizations. Theodore also advises private funds in connection with direct co-investments and other transactional matters.

Theon Chalklen

Theon Chalklen is a restructuring and special situations partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. His legal focus also extends to syndicated finance and private credit.

Thomas Jemmett

Thomas Jemmett is a partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Thomas acts for corporate borrowers, hedge funds and financial institutions on restructuring, special situations and specialised lending matters across the capital structure and credit spectrum.

Tim Volkheimer

Tim Volkheimer is a capital markets partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He has experience in leverage finance and capital markets transactions and mergers and acquisitions. Tim has acted on deals involving many of the major private equity sponsors and credit funds active in Europe including Bain Capital, Centerbridge, Lone Star and Sun Capital, advising on high yield debt offerings, registered debt and equity offerings as well as distressed financings and restructurings.

Tina Xu

Tina Xu is a debt finance partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Tina has a focus on energy and infrastructure financing and leveraged financing and advises borrowers and financial sponsors on a wide range of cross border financings, with a particular focus on core+ and cross-over assets.

Toby Parkinson

Toby Parkinson is as a corporate partner in the London office Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. He advises financial investors on domestic and cross-border M&A, with a particular focus on energy and infrastructure transactions.

Vanessa Xu

Vanessa advises financial sponsors and borrowers on leveraged acquisition finance and other complex financing transactions, particularly leveraged buyouts with a multijurisdictional component.

Vincent Bergin

Vincent is a corporate partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. He advises private equity clients on acquisitions, disposals and other corporate transactions across all sectors.

Will Seal

Will Seal is a partner in the Restructuring Team in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Will has broad experience advising creditors, debtors and shareholders with respect to domestic and cross-border restructurings, insolvencies and special situations.

William Burke

William Burke is a partner in Kirkland’s London office and practices in Kirkland’s Capital Markets Group. Mr. Burke has extensive experience in U.S. and international finance and capital markets transactions. He has represented issuers and sponsors both in the U.S. and abroad with respect to high yield offerings, registered equity offerings, investment grade offerings, restructurings, debt tender/consent solicitations, private placements and preferred securities offerings. William also represents private equity sponsors and other clients in acquisitions, dispositions, mergers and material commercial agreements.

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