Overview

Eric Sweigard is a corporate partner in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Eric’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and other complex business transactions, as well as general corporate and governance matters. Eric has led such matters on behalf of private equity sponsors, asset managers and investors, including, among others, Accel-KKR, AE Industrial Partners, Arsenal Capital Partners, Bain Capital, Blue Owl Capital, Cressey & Company, Linden Capital, Madison Dearborn Partners, ParkerGale Capital, Sun Capital Partners, Waud Capital Partners and Wind Point Partners.

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2016Illinois

Education

  • Northwestern Pritzker School of LawJ.D.cum laude2016
    Associate Editor, Northwestern University Law Review
  • Swarthmore CollegeB.A., History2008