David Pritchett

Kirkland & Ellis represented J.P. Morgan Asset Management in the final closing of its Lynstone Special Situations Fund II, with $2.4 billion in capital raised from a broad set of institutional investors comprised of pension funds, insurance companies, foundations endowments and wealth managers across the Americas, Europe, Australia and Asia. Lynstone Fund II, which surpassed its $2 billion target, is investing in stressed, distressed, and event driven situations in European and North American private and public markets across the capital structure, where underlying assets are potentially discounted due to illiquidity or market disruption and where an event or catalyst has the strong potential to drive a positive total return. Read more in J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s press release The Kirkland team was led by investment funds partners Amala Ejikeme and Katerina Syomina. The team included investment funds partner Sean Hill and associates David Pritchett, Ediz Osman, Natalie Healy and Safal Ahluwalia, tax partners Jonathan Kandel and Rebecca Hill and associates Loviisa Langdon and Felicity Blackburn, and financial services regulatory partner Zach Milloy.

Jun 7

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis advised Fremman Capital, a pan-European, mid-market investment firm, on closing its debut fund, Fremman I MM and accompanying SMA (together, the “Fund”), raising over €600 million and, together with related co-investment funds, taking total assets under management to over €1 billion. The Fund is the largest first-time pan-European buyout fund raised since 2020, with the formation of the management business and raising of the Fund occurring throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Read Fremman’s press release The Kirkland team was led by investment funds partners David Pritchett and Jeremy Leggate and associates Ryan Mason and Candice Kwok; financial services regulation partner Zach Milloy; and ESG & impact partner Daniel D’Ambrosio and associate Andy Burnett.

Jul 20

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis advised IK Investment Partners, a leading Pan-European private equity firm, which recently closed its third Small-Cap fund, the IK Small Cap III Fund. The fund was closed at its hard cap with aggregate capital commitments of €1.2 billion, more than double the size of its €550 million predecessor, the IK Small Cap II Fund. The Fund was significantly oversubscribed and allocated exclusively to existing IK platform investors in just three months, having been raised on a fully virtual basis. The Kirkland team was led by investment funds partners Jeremy Leggate and Christopher Braunack and associates David Pritchett, Yushra Raheem, Oliver Cutbill and Hannah Wilson, and included tax partners David Grenker, Ian Ferreira and Justin Barbosa and regulatory partners Josh Westerholm and Adam Skinner.

Apr 21

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis advised IK Partners, a leading European private equity firm, with teams across Northern Europe focusing on the mid-market segment, on the sale of a controlling interest in the firm to Wendel, one of Europe’s leading listed investment firms. Read IK Partners’ press release The Kirkland team was led by investment funds partners James King, Jeremy Leggate and Daniel Lavon-Krien and corporate partners Adrian Duncan, Gregory Scott and Ben Hai, and included corporate partners Vincent Ponsonnaille and Emmanuel Enrici; investment funds partner David Pritchett and associates Toby Karenowski, Hannah Wilson and Tejaswini Krishnaprasad; corporate associates Julian Holland and Adam Diouri; tax partner Nadine Gelli and associate Krishan Patel; antitrust & competition partner Mark Gardner; and regulatory partner Julian Hui and associate Kate McDermott.

Oct 30

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis LLP is pleased to announce that 193 attorneys have been promoted to partner effective October 1, 2022. Austin Name Practice Area Sean McClay Debt Finance Bay Area Name Practice Area Katya Boyko M&A and Private Equity Kyle Calhoun Intellectual Property Litigation Andrew Chan Tax Courtney Chen Investment Funds Zeke Couch Investment Funds Michael Hanna M&A and Private Equity Jared Maher M&A and Private Equity Ankur Sharma M&A and Private Equity Jessica Tjang Debt Finance Beijing Name Practice Area Justin You Zhou Capital Markets Boston Name Practice Area Brian Allen Investment Funds S. Grant Bowen Debt Finance Larissa Cespedes-Yaffar M&A and Private Equity Charles Chen Investment Funds Alexander Flynn-Tabloff Employment & Labor Tiffany M. Knapp Intellectual Property Litigation Scott Lenahan Investment Funds Alisha Patterson Investment Funds Chicago Name Practice Area Amelia Bailey Litigation Michael F. Black Investment Funds Kelsey Bleiweiss Litigation Cassandra Catalano Litigation Chris Chase Employee Benefits Bernadette Coppola Technology & IP Transactions Lee Discher Debt Finance Hannah Ehrenberg Real Estate Cot Eversole Capital Markets Cameron Ginder Litigation Jessica Giulitto Litigation Emily Hogan Debt Finance Kevin Jacobsen Technology & IP Transactions Nathan Jimenez Investment Funds Justin Joffe M&A and Private Equity Deidre Kalenderian Executive Compensation James Kestler Litigation Dan Latona Restructuring Michael LeFevour Litigation Patrick Loughery Debt Finance Caroline Lourgos Intellectual Property Litigation Kevin McClelland Restructuring Ryan McNish Investment Funds Taylor Melching M&A and Private Equity A.J. Million Capital Markets Patricia Radkowski Litigation Bruce Ratain Intellectual Property Litigation Tricia Schwallier Collins Restructuring Ashley Sinclair Capital Markets Kevin Stocks M&A and Private Equity Andrew Struckmeyer M&A and Private Equity Eric Sweigard M&A and Private Equity Julia Trotta Investment Funds Jordan Turban Miles M&A and Private Equity Patrick Valenti Investment Funds Daniella Vespoli M&A and Private Equity Neil Vohra M&A and Private Equity Kate Walling Litigation Andrew Walter Intellectual Property Litigation Jenny Warfield Real Estate Nicholas Warther Tax Michael Wester Investment Funds Margaret Yeager Private Equity/Private Investment & Family Office Ziyad Ziyadzade M&A and Private Equity Dallas Name Practice Area Victoria Acuff Real Estate Noah Allen Capital Markets Layton Bell Debt Finance Rudgee S. Charles Asset Finance & Securitization William C. Eiland II M&A and Private Equity Rebecca Fine Tax Ruben Garcia Litigation Catharine Hansard M&A and Private Equity Sable Hodson Litigation Randall W. Miller Litigation Hong Kong Name Practice Area Ryan Choi Capital Markets Min Lu M&A and Private Equity Stacey Shen M&A and Private Equity Shinong Wang Investment Funds Ling Zhu Investment Funds Houston Name Practice Area Jennifer Cornejo Environmental Transactions Patrick Corrigan M&A and Private Equity Alia Heintz M&A and Private Equity Ieuan List Capital Markets Rex Manning Litigation Patrick Y. Moneypenny M&A and Private Equity Ryan Phelps Tax Scott Reid Debt Finance Anthony Sanderson Capital Markets Zach Savrick M&A and Private Equity Shainee Shah Litigation Billy Vranish Capital Markets Camille Walker M&A and Private Equity Fraser Wayne M&A and Private Equity London Name Practice Area Gabriella Bornstein Intellectual Property Litigation Aisling Campbell Investment Funds Jacqueline Clover Technology & IP Transactions Chris Connolly M&A and Private Equity Daniel D’Ambrosio ESG and Impact Sion Davies Antitrust & Competition John de Rohan-Truba Intellectual Property Litigation Jack Donelan M&A and Private Equity Emma Faulkner-Hill Tax Joel Gory Antitrust & Competition Ben Hai M&A and Private Equity Rehan Hanif Debt Finance Gabe Harley Restructuring Hamesh Khatkar M&A and Private Equity Victoria Legg M&A and Private Equity Chrystel Marincich Capital Markets Patrick Navein Litigation Jiri Peterka M&A and Private Equity Lorenza Prelz Oltramonti Investment Funds David Pritchett Investment Funds Emma Reid Financial Services Regulatory Oscar Robinson Intellectual Property Litigation Claire Rushton M&A and Private Equity Shahrzad Sadjadi Antitrust & Competition Noah Stewart-Ornstein Litigation Jamie Thomson Investment Funds Los Angeles Name Practice Area Yvonne Beeler Intellectual Property Litigation Matthew Benedetto M&A and Private Equity Sam Blake Intellectual Property Litigation Yungmoon Chang Intellectual Property Litigation Eric Cohen M&A and Private Equity Caroline Epstein Debt Finance Amelia Gordon Debt Finance Andrew Hurley Debt Finance Garry Padrta M&A and Private Equity Ingrid Petersen Intellectual Property Litigation Christopher Raidy Debt Finance Michael Rosenberg Litigation Matthew Summers Litigation Munich Name Practice Area Marlene Ruf Restructuring New York Name Practice Area Sara Allawi Investment Funds Rachael Bentley Restructuring Guillemette Chamayou Investment Funds Jacob Clark Real Estate Linda Dahl Investment Funds Nathaniel DeLucia Intellectual Property Litigation Samuel Dykstra Environmental Transactions Vera Esses Litigation Ciara Foster Restructuring Peter C. Fritz M&A and Private Equity Asaf Gamzo Investment Funds J. Todd Garcia, Jr. Antitrust & Competition Olivia George Debt Finance Zoey Hitzert Capital Markets Timothy Hughes Debt Finance Derek Hunter Restructuring Rex Hupy M&A and Private Equity Jake Jung Tax Olga Kamensky Investment Funds Jennifer Karinen Capital Markets Kim Kaufman Investment Funds Katy Kim Investment Funds John Kleinjan Executive Compensation Jenny Lee Litigation Christie Mok Capital Markets Thomas Norelli Trusts & Estates Eugene Park Debt Finance Leila Ravi Debt Finance Brittany Roger Debt Finance Joanna Schlingbaum Technology & IP Transactions Fishel Schreiber Executive Compensation Ned Schultheis M&A and Private Equity Allyson Smith Restructuring Dominic Spence Real Estate Haley Stern Litigation Amanda Katlowitz Strickler Investment Funds David M. Towarnicky M&A and Private Equity Charles Wehbe M&A and Private Equity Colin Zelicof M&A and Private Equity Salt Lake City Name Practice Area Paul Hendrickson Tax Cameron Leishman M&A and Private Equity Matthew Pinegar Investment Funds Elena Simion M&A and Private Equity Spencer Topham M&A and Private Equity Shanghai Name Practice Area Sally Han Litigation Nelson Ni M&A and Private Equity Washington D.C. Name Practice Area Patrick Arnett Intellectual Property Litigation David Branham Executive Compensation Erin Cady Litigation Katherine Canning Litigation Steven Cantor Tax Michelle Sliwinski DeMaio Environmental Transactions Katie Drummonds Antitrust & Competition Lucie Duvall Antitrust & Competition/Consumer Protection Don Hong Litigation Mary Miller Litigation Karthik Ravishankar Intellectual Property Litigation Emily Scott Intellectual Property Litigation Ben Wallace Litigation Sally Ye Executive Compensation Note: For certain partners, admission will take effect when any necessary regulatory requirements have been satisfied.

Oct 3

4 min