Jon-Micheal Wheat is a corporate partner in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Jon-Micheal’s practice primarily focuses on leveraged buyouts of public and private companies, strategic mergers and acquisitions, and growth equity and venture capital investments. Representative transactions have ranged in size from several million dollars to more than $10 billion and have covered a wide array of industries, including education, federal government contracting, healthcare, manufacturing and technology. As a trusted adviser to these and other sophisticated clients with complex, multi-faceted issues, Jon-Micheal regularly assembles and leads diverse, inter-disciplinary teams of attorneys with a singular focus on tackling his clients’ most difficult legal challenges.
