Grace Slicklen

Associate Transactional

New York +1 646 444 9145

Overview

Grace Slicklen is a corporate associate in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

Shareholder Activism Defense

  • Southwest Airlines in its cooperation agreements with Elliott Investment Management to resolve Elliott’s threatened special meeting proxy contest seeking to replace its CEO and a majority of the board (NYSE: LUV)
Marketing Operations Analyst, Voya Investment Management, 2019–2021

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Thought Leadership

Publications

Author, “For Freedom or Full of it? State Attempts to Silence Social Media,” University of Miami Law Review, 2023

Recognition

Distinguished Legal Writing Award Winner, Law360, 2024

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2025New York

Education

  • University of Miami School of LawJ.D.magna cum laude2024

    Order of the Coif

    Editor-in-Chief, University of Miami Law Review

  • Loyola University MarylandB.B.A., Marketing; French Minormagna cum laude2019