Overview

John Sheridan is a corporate associate in the Bay Area offices of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. His practice focuses on advising private equity firms and public and private companies on M&A and other corporate transactions, including domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, “going-private” transactions, divestitures and growth equity investments.

John also advises public companies and their boards of directors, as well as private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, on general corporate and governance matters.

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Thought Leadership

Publications

"Billion Dollar Orphans: Tension Between the Legal Intent and Social Purpose of the Orphan Drug Act," 6 Tex. A&M L. Rev. 731, 2019

"The Legal Landscape of America's Landlocked Property," 37 UCLA J. Envtl. L. & Pol'y, 2019

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2019California

Languages

  • English
  • Spanish

Education

  • University of California, Davis School of LawJ.D.2019

    Senior Articles Editor, U.C. Davis Law Review

    Business Law Certificate

    Immigration Law Clinic

  • Loyola Marymount UniversityM.A., Urban Education Policy and Administration2015
  • Brown UniversityA.B., Public Policy & Economics2013

    Society of Royce Fellows

    Varsity Baseball