Max Chaffetz

Associate Mergers & Acquisitions Private Equity

Salt Lake City +1 801 877 8179

Max Chaffetz

Practices

Overview

Max Chaffetz is an associate in the Salt Lake City office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. His practice is principally focused on representing private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in complex business transactions.

PE sponsor in its convertible preferred equity investment of up to $550 million (representing a controlling stake) in a company specializing in the development of clean energy, gigawatt-scale campus facilities for datacenter operators

Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners in its structured investment in The Pasha Group, a leader in maritime transportation

Bernhard Capital Partners in its $1.2 billion acquisition of CenterPoint Energy, Inc.’s gas distribution business in Louisiana and Mississippi

LM Energy, a portfolio company of Old Ironsides Energy, in the carveout sale of its crude oil gathering business in the Delaware Basin

Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board (OTPP) in its $250 million majority stake investment in Sevana Bioenergy, a developer of large-scale renewable natural gas projects

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Thought Leadership

Publications

Author, “Disentangling Conflict and Minerals: How NGOs and Lawmakers Ought to Rebrand Their Flawed Narrative of Eastern Congo,” Virginia Journal of International Law, 2021

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2022Utah
  • 2020California

Education

  • University of Virginia School of LawJ.D.2020
  • University of UtahB.A., English2017