Melanie B. Harmon

Partner Mergers & Acquisitions Private Equity

Chicago +1 312 862 3765

Melanie B. Harmon

Practices

Overview

Melanie B. Harmon is a corporate partner in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Melanie’s practice primarily focuses on advising private equity funds and their portfolio companies in connection with acquisition and divesture transactions and other complex corporate matters.

Sale of Intelligentsia Coffee, pioneer of the third wave coffee movement

Sale of restaurant parts supplier/repair service provider

Acquisition of Canadian trucking business

Acquisition of industrial furnace manufacturer

Acquisition of branded Mexican snack foods wholesaler

Sale of fast-casual restaurant chain

Sale of Canadian printed circuit board manufacturer

Acquisition of fiber arts equipment and accessory manufacturer/distributor

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Thought Leadership

Publications

Co-Author, "The Private Equity Review: United States," The Law Reviews, 2022–2023

Author, "Applying Leon: Does the Good Faith Exception Apply to Title III Interceptions?," University of Chicago Legal Forum, 2012

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • Illinois

Education

  • University of Chicago Law SchoolJ.D.with Honors
    Executive Editor, The University of Chicago Legal Forum
  • Northwestern UniversityB.A., Economics & Political Sciencemagna cum laude

    Honors in Economics

    Phi Beta Kappa

    Deibler Award for Distinguished Senior Thesis, The Economics of Mortgage Foreclosure Laws: Investigating Borrower and Lender Responses to Differentiated Legal Regimes