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Kirkland & Ellis LLP is pleased to announce that 205 attorneys have been promoted to partner effective October 1, 2023. Austin Name Practice Area Daniel Cadis M&A and Private Equity Zack C. Ewing Litigation Alec Manzer M&A and Private Equity Bay Area Name Practice Area Katherine Schloss Ackerman M&A and Private Equity Anna Baxendale Investment Funds Philip Castagnozzi Bush M&A and Private Equity Kathleen Marie Cloutier M&A and Private Equity Matt Dunnet M&A and Private Equity Leahana Grimley M&A and Private Equity Mary Kwan Investment Funds Yan-Xin Li Intellectual Property Litigation Garett Morin M&A and Private Equity Zak Morozov Tax Qasim Rasool M&A and Private Equity Martin A. Schwertmann Technology & IP Transactions Stephen M. Silva Litigation Christina A. Wa Real Estate Boston Name Practice Area Ramen Costa Investment Funds Mathew Eapen Investment Funds Matthew Fisher M&A and Private Equity William Koch Investment Funds William N. Lay M&A and Private Equity Miranda Means Intellectual Property Litigation Nils Remole M&A and Private Equity Brandon Short Tax Chicago Name Practice Area Nadia Abramson Litigation Amy Barber Technology & IP Transactions Robin W. Basu Real Estate Amarto Bhattacharyya Litigation Timothy Bow Real Estate Nicholas A. Cast M&A and Private Equity Lauren M. Cates Executive Compensation Philip M. Cooper Litigation Kaitlyn L. Coverstone Litigation Sarah M. Craig Intellectual Property Litigation Matt Dobleman Debt Finance Lauren N. Falk Litigation Christopher B. Grady M&A and Private Equity Christopher Hinojosa Litigation Keith Holt Litigation Alyssa Jutovsky Investment Funds Sarah Kimmer Litigation Mac M. Laban Investment Funds Kelsey Laugel Antitrust & Competition Jackson D. Lavelle M&A and Private Equity Steven J. Lindsay Litigation David Love Debt Finance Jeremy A. Mandell M&A and Private Equity Reid McEllrath Litigation Jeffrey Michalik Restructuring Rory M. Minnis Tax Timothy D. Nolan Investment Funds Angela C. Oldham M&A and Private Equity Steven A. Page M&A and Private Equity Jake Rambeau Intellectual Property Litigation Claire Rokita Debt Finance Taylor Rothman Litigation Nicholas M. Ruge Litigation Yusuf Salloum Restructuring Eric Scharphorn Investment Funds Lisa Tran Real Estate Patrick Weeks Litigation Alison J. Wirtz Restructuring Benjamin Woodring Litigation Christopher J. Worek Tax Dallas Name Practice Area Chelsea Bedotto Executive Compensation Karsten Busby Executive Compensation Marco Chan Debt Finance Purun Cheong Debt Finance Sydne K. Collier Litigation Clint Cowan Litigation Steven M. Keithley Debt Finance Jacqueline Scioli M&A and Private Equity Hong Kong Name Practice Area Jerry Choi Investment Funds John Curran Debt Finance Brandon Ovington Debt Finance Joshua Payne M&A and Private Equity Anthony Wijaya Restructuring Raymond Wong M&A and Private Equity Ashlee Wu Capital Markets Grace Zhu Litigation Houston Name Practice Area Osaro Aifuwa Debt Finance Xavier Avery Litigation Angela Hagerman Debt Finance Fernanda M. Langa M&A and Private Equity James R. Long M&A and Private Equity Blake X. Longoria M&A and Private Equity Katherine C. Nemeth Executive Compensation Christine Shang Litigation Jonathan Paul Strom M&A and Private Equity Jacob Walley Tax Michelle Williamson Debt Finance London Name Practice Area Dana Abdulkarim M&A and Private Equity Mallika Abidi Restructuring Irfan Ahmed M&A and Private Equity Anna Maria Alexandrou Investment Funds Anthony Antioch Tax Nick Appleton M&A and Private Equity Rory Clarke Intellectual Property Litigation Sandipan De Debt Finance Monica Gemes M&A and Private Equity Max Harris Technology & IP Transactions Jerome Hoyle Debt Finance William Jensen Intellectual Property Litigation Matthew Jobson Investment Funds Anan Ju Investment Funds Sky Kim Financial Services Regulatory Loviisa Langdon Tax Joanne Mak Investment Funds Edward Malcolm Litigation Andrew McAlpine M&A and Private Equity Thomas Raftery Debt Finance Amrit Sagoo Investment Funds Sharon Skipper M&A and Private Equity Yasmin Smedley Debt Finance Miroslav Tomo M&A and Private Equity Adam Watterson Restructuring Tina Xu Debt Finance Los Angeles Name Practice Area Michael P. Alcan Tax Radhika Kshatriya Investment Funds Ted McBride Investment Funds Andrew Morrill Intellectual Property Litigation Guirgis Nasief M&A and Private Equity Daniel Rios Executive Compensation Kevin X. Wang Intellectual Property Litigation Nancy Zakiniaeiz Real Estate Miami Name Practice Area Mark Lipschultz Real Estate Munich Name Practice Area Siegfried M. Büttner Capital Markets Greta-Josefin Harnisch M&A and Private Equity Fabrice Hipp Debt Finance New York Name Practice Area Leia Pearl Andrew Capital Markets Alison E. Beskin Executive Compensation Camila Bourguignon Debt Finance Aulden Burcher-DuPont Litigation Brittany Lischinsky Burke Antitrust & Competition Jace A. Cearley Litigation Steven M. Choi M&A and Private Equity Michael Chung M&A and Private Equity Jack Coles Antitrust & Competition Amal El Bakhar Litigation Peter Evangelatos Intellectual Property Litigation Justin Greer Debt Finance Jimin He M&A and Private Equity Marc Holloway M&A and Private Equity Keli Huang M&A and Private Equity Thuy Huynh M&A and Private Equity Sharaf Islam Debt Finance Anthony Ji Executive Compensation Evan Johnson M&A and Private Equity Robert Kantrowitz Healthcare Ashley A. Kerr Debt Finance Kartik Khanna M&A and Private Equity Mathieu Kohmann Capital Markets Don Lee M&A and Private Equity Drew Maliniak Capital Markets Aidan S. Murphy M&A and Private Equity Conor O'Muiri Debt Finance Francis Petrie Restructuring Jackson Phinney Employment & Labor Christopher Pristouris Investment Funds Asher A. Qazi Capital Markets Jacob M. Rae Litigation Michael L. Ramsey Investment Funds Mary T. Reale Litigation Kaitlyn I. Reid Executive Compensation Victoria J. Ryan Litigation Justin Samson Investment Funds Giselle Sedano Litigation Noah Shier Technology & IP Transactions Stephanie Shimada Litigation Christina S. Shin M&A and Private Equity Lora Shub-Brown Tax Maria Smith Tax Alborz Tolou Capital Markets Jacqueline M. Trudeau Debt Finance Tony Tsai Debt Finance Daniel Yip M&A and Private Equity Anthony Zangrillo Capital Markets Samuel Zaretsky Real Estate Paris Name Practice Area Guillaume Nivault M&A and Private Equity Salt Lake City Name Practice Area Michael Cline M&A and Private Equity Jackson Knight M&A and Private Equity Zach Miller M&A and Private Equity Peter Ott Debt Finance Ben Richards Capital Markets Elizabeth M. Roberts Debt Finance Stephen Tensmeyer Litigation Shanghai Name Practice Area Sean Zhang Debt Finance Washington D.C. Name Practice Area David J. Arbus Real Estate Ridge Blanchard Litigation Justin Bova Intellectual Property Litigation Grace C. Brier Litigation Stephen C. DeSalvo Intellectual Property Litigation Mackenzie Drutowski ESG & Impact Jennifer I. Gullotti Investment Funds Diva Hollis Intellectual Property Litigation Jennifer Kim-Gagne Investment Funds Robert Kimmitt, Jr. Litigation Megan McGlynn Litigation William S. Richmond Healthcare Olivia Vanessa Seraphim Healthcare Tera Jo Stone Intellectual Property Litigation Michelle A. Weinbaum International Trade Amber L. Whipkey Litigation Jessica M. Yeh Tax Note: For certain partners, admission will take effect when any necessary regulatory requirements have been satisfied.

Oct 2

5 min

Kirkland & Ellis is advising Hg, as it welcomes two new minority investors in Septeo Group: Téthys Invest, the investment holding company of the Bettencourt-Meyers Family, and GIC, a leading global investor. These investors will join Hugues Galambrun, the founding CEO of Septeo, as well as the management team; Hg will also remain as Septeo's majority investor. The transaction values the group at over €3 billion. The transaction is expected to close following customary regulatory approvals. Read Hg’s Press Release The Kirkland team included corporate lawyers Vincent Ponsonnaille, Guillaume Nivault and Marion Callot and antitrust & competition lawyer Thomas Wilson.

Nov 22

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis is advising co-controlling shareholders WP GG Holdings IV B.V., an affiliate of Warburg Pincus, and ARCHIMED on the sale of Polyplus for approximately €2.4 billion to Sartorius, a life science group. Polyplus was initially acquired by ARCHIMED in 2016, which sold half of its stake to Warburg Pincus in 2020. Polyplus is a global provider of upstream bioprocessing solutions, including transfection reagents and DNA plasmids, which are critical inputs used in the manufacturing of cell and gene therapies. Kirkland advised Warburg Pincus and Dechert advised ARCHIMED on the 2020 acquisition. Read Sartorius’ press release The Kirkland team is led by corporate partners Laurent Victor-Michel and Adrian Maguire and associates Guillaume Nivault, Etienne Vautier, Luke Forryan, Nikhil Mohindra and Lucy Bower; antitrust partners Marin Boney and Matthew Sinclair-Thomson and associate Miata Eggerly; and tax partners Nadine Gelli, Peter Abbott and Sonia Bouaffassa and associate Maria Clezy.

Apr 3

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis, Weil, Gotshal & Manges and Paul Hastings are advising on a proposed €1.8 billion ($1.5 billion) deal that would allow London and New York-based private equity firm CapVest to tap into growing demand for investment in sustainable energy infrastructure. CapVest has entered exclusive talks to acquire HLD’s majority stake in TSG, a European technical services provider for critical energy infrastructure. Paris-headquartered TSG started out decades ago as a gas station and fueling equipment company. Since it was acquired by European investment firm HLD in 2020, the company has worked to transform itself into a provider of technical services for critical energy infrastructure and the sustainable energy transition. HLD and TSG management will retain minority stakes in the company after the sale, for about €1.8 billion, according to French press reports and Bloomberg. Kirkland's team advising CapVest includes corporate partners Vincent Ponsonnaille (London and Paris), Guillaume Nivault (Paris), and Carlos Gil Rivas and Chris Connolly (London), and debt finance partners Evgeny Zborovsky and Karen Ford in London. In October, Kirkland was on the other side of the table advising Bain Capital and Cinven in a €10 billion deal to sell their majority stake in German healthcare and pharmaceutical giant Stada to CapVest, advised by Willkie, Farr & Gallagher. Weil's Paris-based team advising the seller, HLD, includes partners Jean Beauchataud and Pierre-Alexandre Kahn on the transaction’s corporate law aspects, Marc Lordonnois on public law, and Ning-Ly Seng on competition law. Kahn has advised HLD on several other transactions, including the company's sale of online shoe retailer Sarenza and its acquisition of IPS and AMS (now Elivie), as well as the acquisition of Photonis in 2021 for €370 million, according to Weil. French firm Arsene Taxand is advising HLD on tax, while Paul Hastings' team is advising HLD and the TSG group on financing aspects of the transaction, led by partners Olivier Vermeulen and Tereza Courmont Vlkova. It's also not the first time Paul Hastings has advised HLD. In November, Vermeulen and Tereza Courmont Vlkova also advised HLD on the repricing and upsizing of their existing Term Loan B facility, increasing it from €600 million to €750 million, according to Paul Hastings. The CapVest transaction is subject to customary closing conditions.

Feb 12

2 min

Kirkland & Ellis is advising CapVest Partners on entering into exclusive negotiations regarding its proposed acquisition of a stake in TSG, a European leader in technical services for critical energy infrastructure, from HLD. Read the transaction press release The Kirkland team includes corporate lawyers Vincent Ponsonnaille, Carlos Gil Rivas, Guillaume Nivault, Chris Connolly, Nikhil Mohindra, Ben Seymour, Emma Luo and Gabin Beaudor; debt finance lawyers Evgeny Zborovsky, Karen Ford, Michael McNamee, Anastasis Voskos and Jin Ahn; and tax lawyers Nadine Gelli, Alan Walker and Maxime Billaut.

Feb 10

1 min