Kirkland & Ellis LLP is pleased to announce that 97 attorneys were promoted to partner effective Oct. 1, 2017. The names, practice groups and office locations of the attorneys follow. Kirkland & Ellis is a law firm with more than 2,000 attorneys representing global clients in private equity, M&A and other complex corporate transactions, litigation and dispute resolution/arbitration, restructuring, and intellectual property matters. The Firm has 13 offices around the world: Beijing, Boston, Chicago, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Shanghai and Washington, D.C. Chicago Name Practice Area Jennifer Avery-Emani M&A/Private Equity Aaron M. Berlin Debt Finance Robert Britton Restructuring Ralph N. Dado, III Government, Regulatory and Internal Investigations Litigation Christopher R. Elder M&A/Private Equity Seth Fishman Investment Funds Karen E. Flanagan M&A/Private Equity Maggie D. Flores M&A/Private Equity/Capital Markets Emily E. Geier Restructuring Anna F. Geml M&A/Private Equity Joe Graham Restructuring Sam S. Hong Technology & IP Transactions Amanda A. Jacobowski Litigation Howard M. Kaplan Litigation Emma E. Lange-Novak M&A/Private Equity Margaret Gillespie Cahoon Linkous Real Estate Paul Mysliwiec Investment Funds Stacy Pepper Litigation Gregory F. Pesce Restructuring Anne Salomon Litigation Anthony V. Sexton Tax Daniel I. Siegfried Litigation David H. Stults Investment Funds W. Benjamin Winger Restructuring Alyse Wu Intellectual Property Litigation Hong Kong Name Practice Area David Couper Debt Finance Hao-Chin (Frank) Jeng Litigation Daniel Margulies Restructuring Paul Quinn Litigation Robert Sandes Restructuring Yue Zhang Investment Funds Houston Name Practice Area Michael P. Fisherman Capital Markets Cyril V. Jones M&A/Private Equity Samuel C. Peca M&A/Private Equity Michael Rigdon Capital Markets Nicolas W. Thompson Government, Regulatory and Internal Investigations Litigation London Name Practice Area Andrew Butel Government, Regulatory and Internal Investigations Litigation Mark Ingram Tax Philipp Kurek Litigation Jeremy Leggate Investment Funds Frazer Money Tax Jon Newman Arbitration Aranpreet Randhawa Investment Funds James Simpson Capital Markets Adam Skinner Financial Services Regulatory Mark Thompson M&A/Private Equity Jacob Traff M&A/Private Equity Rebecca Villarreal M&A/Private Equity Christopher Wall Debt Finance Los Angeles Name Practice Area Benjamin Herbert Intellectual Property Litigation Bryan T. Ikegami M&A/Private Equity Michael A. Onufer Litigation James Rapore Litigation Kristin Rose Litigation

New York Name Practice Area Juliet Anderson Investment Funds George N. Bauer Government, Regulatory and Internal Investigations Litigation Shanti Sadtler Conway Intellectual Property Litigation Christopher DeCoro Intellectual Property Litigation Rachel Gray Debt Finance Anthony R. Grossi Restructuring Patrick Jacobs M&A/Private Equity Ming Lim Capital Markets Renata Lombardi Malavazzi M&A/Private Equity Sean Malone Investment Funds Mary Mazzello Intellectual Property Litigation Marsha Mogilevich Capital Markets Mira Atanassova Mulvaney Intellectual Property Litigation Vishal Phalgoo M&A/Private Equity Cristine Pirro Restructuring Jaclyn L. Rabin Investment Funds Alan M. Rabinowitz Intellectual Property Litigation Elizabeth L. Richards Investment Funds Drue A. Santora Derivatives Peter Seligson Capital Markets Clément Smadja M&A/Private Equity Leslie Theophile Investment Funds Jessica M. Woolf Debt Finance Lina Zhou Investment Funds Palo Alto Name Practice Area Anjna R. Mehta M&A/Private Equity San Francisco Name Practice Area James W. Beach M&A/Private Equity James Beard Intellectual Property Litigation Kristen L. Derhaag Debt Finance Sarah Forney Intellectual Property Litigation Aditi Iyer Debt Finance Ashley E. Littlefield Litigation Sarah Schaedler Technology & IP Transactions Jane Wu Debt Finance Washington, D.C. Name Practice Area Devin Allan DeBacker Litigation Jonathan Jones Intellectual Property Litigation William Kimmitt Litigation Edmund G. LaCour Jr. Appellate Litigation Beth Mueller Government, Regulatory and Internal Investigations Litigation Sanjay José Mullick International Trade Bryan M. O'Keefe Labor & Employment Andrew Pruitt Litigation Michael Schulman Labor & Employment Megan M. Wold Appellate Litigation NOTE:  In general, the admission date will be October 1, 2017, or such later date when any necessary regulatory requirements have been satisfied.