Alex Brodkin

Kirkland & Ellis LLP is pleased to announce that 145 attorneys have been promoted to partner effective today. Boston Name Practice Area Payson W. Lyman M&A/Private Equity Dena H. Medford M&A/Private Equity Casey O'Brien Investment Funds Josh Peary Debt Finance Matthew J. Smith Investment Funds Chicago Name Practice Area Joshua M. Altman Restructuring Peter K. Anderson M&A/Private Equity Michael S. Biehl Litigation Mary Liz Brady Debt Finance Katherine Bryan M&A/Private Equity Zachary A. Ciullo Litigation Adria M. Crowe Employee Benefits Margaret R.T. Dewar Tax Rosalyn K. Flores M&A/Private Equity Whitney C. Fogelberg Restructuring Tasha Francis Gerasimow Intellectual Property Litigation Kent J. Hayden Litigation Todd Herst Technology & IP Transactions Sean Hilson Debt Finance Theresa Cederoth Horan Litigation Sam Ikard Litigation Hanaa Kaloti Litigation Christopher S. Koenig Restructuring John Z. Kosir M&A/Private Equity Nikhil R. Krishnan Intellectual Property Litigation Laura Krucks Restructuring Christine M. Lehman Tax Taryn E. Lewis Litigation Rebecca Liu Executive Compensation Erika P. López M&A/Private Equity John R. Luze Restructuring Allison A. Ray Litigation Anne Reser Litigation Erica Rozow Employee Benefits Brendan E. Ryan Litigation Reed T. Schuster Investment Funds Christina E. Sharkey Litigation Austin B. Stephenson Litigation India D. Williams Litigation Dallas Name Practice Area Michael Kalis Litigation Joshua Merrill M&A/Private Equity Rachael A. Rezabek Antitrust/Competition Conrad Steele Real Estate Hong Kong Name Practice Area Gautam Agarwal Debt Finance Judy Huang M&A/Private Equity Fergus Saurin Litigation Julia Yu M&A/Private Equity Houston Name Practice Area Adam Garmezy M&A/Private Equity Robert P. Goodin M&A/Private Equity Lance Hancock Capital Markets Will Mabry M&A/Private Equity R.J. Malenfant M&A/Private Equity Mitch McClellan Debt Finance Ryan C. Myers Litigation Erik Shoemaker M&A/Private Equity London Name Practice Area Alex Brodkin Investment Funds Dan Clarke M&A/Private Equity Shane Cranley Antitrust/Competition Adrian Duncan M&A/Private Equity Rachel Greenhalgh M&A/Private Equity Gloria Ho Investment Funds Lloyd Jones Debt Finance James King Investment Funds Daniel McMann M&A/Private Equity Cian O'Connor Tax Sam Sherwood Debt Finance Sophie M. Smith Investment Funds Sam Trowbridge Tax Alexander van der Gaag Debt Finance Tana Wilner Investment Funds Thomas Woodhead Financial Services Regulatory Los Angeles Name Practice Area Shawn Bagdasarian Debt Finance Zachary W. Byer Litigation Sara Campbell M&A/Private Equity Michele M. Cumpston M&A/Private Equity Yimeng Dou Intellectual Property Litigation Mark D. Fahey Intellectual Property Litigation Kimia Ghalambor Real Estate Josh Glucoft Intellectual Property Litigation Whang Ki Josh Jang Debt Finance Jean A. Lee M&A/Private Equity Ashley Neglia Litigation Evan M. Roberts M&A/Private Equity Katie Roddy Real Estate Lauren Schweitzer Intellectual Property Litigation R.E. Scott Syverson M&A/Private Equity Caleb Vesey M&A/Private Equity Munich Name Practice Area Dr. Christoph Jerger M&A/Private Equity Dr. Josef Parzinger Restructuring New York Name Practice Area Jennifer L. Baumgarten Capital Markets Rebecca Blake Chaikin Restructuring Alexandra Chauvin Investment Funds Jordan T. Cohen M&A/Private Equity Romain Dambre M&A/Private Equity Douglas DiMedio M&A/Private Equity Lucy Frey Executive Compensation Scott Fryman Tax Alexander J. Gelski Litigation Chris Hinman Technology & IP Transactions Kyla Jackson Litigation Jean Jeong Investment Funds Shreyas B. Jhaveri Investment Funds John S. Kefer Debt Finance Christine A. Lacku Employment & Labor Sheldon Hunt Laing Investment Funds Kevin Lam Investment Funds Michael J. Milazzo Tax Madelyn A. Morris Litigation Malhar Naik Executive Compensation Alexander J. Nicas Restructuring Arlene J. Ortiz-Leytte M&A/Private Equity Vivek Ratnam Tax Tara L. Rhoades Tax Lukas David Richards M&A/Private Equity Ashley Ross Intellectual Property Litigation Aaron Michael Schleicher Capital Markets Nolan Stanton Real Estate Ben Steadman Debt Finance Allie Strang Litigation Jennifer Wang Investment Funds San Francisco Name Practice Area Michael C. Allers M&A/Private Equity Caitlin Bouey Debt Finance Travis J. Distaso M&A/Private Equity Natalie Flechsig Intellectual Property Litigation Shayne Henry Litigation Ari Levi M&A/Private Equity Simon C. Root M&A/Private Equity Michael Saretsky Environmental Transactions Anna Terteryan Litigation Carol Hsing Wang Tax Shanghai Name Practice Area Yue Qiu Litigation Washington D.C. Name Practice Area Nickolas Barber Litigation Patrick Brown Litigation Haley L. Darling Litigation Nichole DeJulio Intellectual Property Litigation Aaron Ellias Investment Funds Stephanie Greco Antitrust/Competition Sydney Jones Employment & Labor Mike Kilgarriff Litigation Jennie Morawetz Environmental Julie M.K. Siegal Appellate Litigation Thomas Strumpf Investment Funds Andrew L. Stuyvenberg Energy Regulatory Katie M. Sullivan M&A/Private Equity Holly Trogdon Litigation NOTE:  In general the admission date will be October 1, 2020 or such later date when any necessary regulatory requirements have been satisfied.

Oct 1

3 min

Kirkland & Ellis advised Iconic Sports on its investment in London-based group Eagle Football, which acquired a significant controlling stake in Olympique Lyonnais Groupe SA. This transaction creates one of the largest professional football groups in the world with interests in Olympique Lyonnais, Crystal Palace, Botafogo and RWD Molenbeek. Read the Eagle Football press release The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Laurent Victor-Michel, David Higgins, Sean Wheeler, Debbie Yee, Henry Birch and Camille Elizabeth Walker and associates Etienne Vautier, Peter Hyams and Oscar Fernando Leija; capital markets partners Christian Nagler and Cedric Van den Borren and associate Mathieu Kohmann; debt finance partner Neel Sachdev and associates Marco Bagnato and Marina Fatsis; investment funds partner Alex Brodkin and associates Rajiv Chandrasena and Courtenay Stock; tax partners Ian Ferreira, David Mannion, Rob Sharpe, Joseph Tootle, Sam Trowbridge and Sara Zablotney and associates Kris Kania and Krishan Patel and restructuring partner Elaine Nolan and associate Dan Stathis.

Dec 22

1 min

Simpson Thacher represented EQT in connection with the formation and raising of EQT Mid Market Asia III. The fund closed with total commitments of US$800 million.~~EQT Mid Market Asia III will make control or co-control investments in companies primarily in Greater China and Southeast Asia with significant growth and development potential.~~The Simpson Thacher team included Gareth Earl, Jason Glover and Alex Brodkin (Funds).

May 14

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis advised World Quantum Growth Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in connection with its $200 million IPO. The SPAC was sponsored by World Quantum Growth Acquisition LLC, a Cayman Islands limited liability company controlled by a group of high-calibre executives led by Xavier Rolet KBE, former CEO of The London Stock Exchange Group, and including Serge Harry, Antoine Shagoury and Michel Brogard. Although the Company will not be limited to a particular industry or geographic region in its identification and acquisition of a target company, the Company believes the financial services and the financial technology sectors in the U.S. and EMEA as well as relevant technology firms supporting these sectors present particularly attractive investment opportunities. The SPAC’s units began trading on the NYSE under the ticker symbol “WQGA.U” on 11 August, 2021. The offering closed on August 13, 2021. Read the World Quantum Growth Acquistion Corp. press release The Kirkland team was led by capital markets partner Cedric Van den Borren, investments funds partners Richard Watkins and Alex Brodkin and tax partner Ian Ferreira.  The team also included capital markets associates Serguei Chevtchenko and Elio Gaarthuis, investment funds associate Alexander Clarke and tax partners Meredith Levy and Nadine Gelli.

Aug 16

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis advised on the formation of Resolution Life Group Holdings (RLGH), an insurance holding company focused on investing in legacy life insurance portfolios. RLGH secured commitments in excess of $3 billion from a broad mix of global institutional investors. The team was led by investment funds partners Christopher Braunack and Richard Watkins and included investment funds associates Alex Brodkin, Feni Ajumogobia, Tosin Adeyeri, Joanne Mak, Yushra Raheem, Saleem Richmond and Candice Kwok; regulatory partner Scott Moehrke and associate Caleb Hanlon; banking regulatory of counsel Julie Kunetka; and tax partners Patrick Gallagher, Mike Beinus and Meredith Levy. Kirkland is a global leader in providing sophisticated advice to investment fund sponsors, institutional investors and other market participants in the alternative investment fund space. Kirkland offers clients the unsurpassed resources of a large, integrated, multidisciplinary, global team located across offices in the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific. With more than 400 dedicated investment funds attorneys, few firms approach the breadth, depth and scope of Kirkland’s experience in investment funds legal services. Since January 2016, Kirkland has advised over 450 funds with total capital commitments in excess of $680 billion.

Nov 26

1 min