Overview
Mac Laban is a partner in the Investment Funds Regulatory Solutions Group of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. His practice focuses on the regulation of private investment funds and investment advisers. Mac provides regulatory advice on a wide variety of matters, including the formation, offering and operation of private equity funds, venture capital funds, real estate funds and credit funds, as well as on complex fund restructurings and adviser-led secondary transactions. Mac also regularly advises emerging managers, counseling them through initial fund launches, SEC registration and compliance, and strategy expansion. Mac also advises on financial services mergers and acquisitions, and strategic liquidity transactions for private fund sponsors.
Representative Clients
5C Investment Partners, Accel, AEA Investors, Berkshire Partners, CIVC Partners, Human Capital, J.P. Morgan, LaSalle Investment Management, Madison Dearborn Partners, Neuberger Berman, Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners, Silversmith Capital Partners, Singerman Real Estate, Transformation Capital Partners and Trinity Hunt Management
Experience
Clerk & Government Experience
Judicial ExternHonorable Thomas M. DurkinUnited States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Legal ExternUnited States Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Division of Enforcement
Law ClerkOffice of the Illinois Attorney General, Tax Crimes Division
Prior Experience
Ropes & Gray LLP
Goodwin Procter LLP
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- District of Columbia
Education
- Loyola University Chicago School of LawJ.D.2016
- Iowa State UniversityB.S., Community and Regional Planning2009
News &
Insights
- Kirkland AIM SEC Marketing Rule Guidance Relaxes Requirements Related to Net Performance Presentations
- Kirkland AIM SEC No-Action Letter Opens the Door Wider on Rule 506(c) Offerings
- Kirkland AIM SEC Delays Implementation Date for Revised Form PF Allowing April 30th Filings to Use Current Form
- Kirkland AIM Off-Channel Communications
- Kirkland AIM Private Fund Manager U.S. SEC / CFTC Compliance: 2025 Key Dates