Overview

Jack P. Rossman is a partner in the Investment Funds Practice Group at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and a member of the Firm's industry-leading Strategic GP Advisory Practice Group. Jack’s practice focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, structured equity transactions, control sale transactions, recapitalizations, restructurings and other transactions involving public and private investment management firms, broker-dealers and related businesses. In addition, Jack advises both investors and firms in GP stakes and other minority investment transactions. As part of his strategic GP advisory practice, Jack provides guidance to clients on structuring complex incentive compensation and equity ownership arrangements for principals of investment management firms.

Jack has advised on U.S. and cross-border transactions with an aggregate value of over $100 billion in announced deals, including several of the largest transactions in the asset management and financial services industries over the past decade.

Select Representative Clients

Aircastle Limited, Discover Bank, Fortress Investment Group, Fortress Transportation and Infrastructure Investors, Neuberger Berman Group, New Senior Investment Group, Pagaya Technologies, Perella Weinberg Partners, Rite Aid Corporation, Rithm Capital, Sculptor Capital Management, Sentinel Capital Partners, Walton Street Capital, Western Digital Corporation and WeWork.

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Thought Leadership

Seminars

Speaker, Foundations of Corporate Law: Mergers & Acquisitions, Columbia Business Law Association

Speaker, Corporate and Transactional Practices, Columbia Law School

Recognition

Best Lawyers, “Ones To Watch in America”

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2013New York

Education

  • Columbia Law SchoolJ.D.2012

    Managing Editor, Columbia Business Law Review

    Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar

    Parker School Recognition of Achievement in Foreign and Comparative Law

    Public Interest Honors

    Columbia-Oxford Global Alliance Program, University of Oxford Faculty of Law and Saïd Business School

  • Cornell UniversityB.A., Economics2009

    400 Club Honors

    Editor-in-Chief, Cornell Pre-Law Journal