Press Release

Kirkland & Ellis LLP Appoints New Partners

01 October 2010

Kirkland & Ellis LLP is pleased to announce that 58 attorneys have been promoted to partner. Twelve attorneys of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP have also been promoted to partner.

The names, practice groups and office locations of the attorneys follow.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP is a 1,500-attorney law firm representing global clients in complex litigation, dispute resolution and arbitration, corporate and tax, restructuring, and intellectual property and technology matters. The Firm has offices in Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Shanghai and Washington, D.C.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Name	Practice Area	Office
Dean C. Bachus	Tax	Chicago
Aditya Bamzai	Litigation	Washington, D.C.
Samuel Louis Blatnick	Litigation	Chicago
Judson Brown	Litigation	Washington, D.C.
John L. Budetti	Private Funds	New York
Michael Carew	Tax	Chicago
Jennifer Clarke-Smith	Antitrust	Chicago
David H. DeCelles	Litigation	Chicago
John P. Del Monaco	Litigation	New York
Cindy Chen Delano	Restructuring	New York
Matthew F. Dexter	Litigation	New York
Abigail M. Diaz-Pedrosa	Litigation	Washington, D.C.
Sarah J. Donnell	Litigation	Chicago
Edward A. Donovan	Corporate	Chicago
Christopher J. Esbrook	Litigation	Chicago
Corey D. Fox	Corporate	Chicago
Sarah Brooks Gabriel	Corporate	Chicago
Robert B. Gilmore	Litigation	Washington, D.C.
David M. Grenker	Tax	New York
Steven S. Hall	Corporate	Chicago
Eric D. Hayes	Intellectual Property	Chicago
Elizabeth S. Hess	Litigation	Chicago
David W. Higer	Intellectual Property	Chicago
Christopher J. Hoffman	Corporate	New York
David I. Horowitz	Litigation	Los Angeles
Chad J. Husnick	Restructuring	Chicago
David E. Johanson	Corporate	Chicago
Nickolas A. Kacprowski	Litigation	San Francisco
Chris Kao	Intellectual Property	San Francisco
Vladimir Khodosh	Intellectual Property	Chicago
Robert A. Kiburz	Corporate	Chicago
Christopher A. Kitchen	Corporate	New York
Erik G. Knudsen	Corporate	Chicago
Benjamin A. Lasky	Intellectual Property	New York
Shannon M. Leutheuser	Private Funds	Chicago
Jeffrey M. Loeb	Corporate	Chicago
Joseph A. Loy	Intellectual Property	New York
Maria A. Maras	Intellectual Property	Chicago
Micah E. Marcus	Litigation	Chicago
Oreste P. McClung	Litigation	Washington, D.C.
Sandra Lynn Musumeci	Litigation	New York
Joshua P. O'Donnell	Investment Management	Chicago
Joseph W. Price	Corporate	New York
Serena J. Pruitt	Intellectual Property	Chicago
William T. Pruitt	Litigation	Chicago
Amy R. Schofield	Intellectual Property	San Francisco
Sarah Hiltz Seewer	Restructuring	Chicago
Ellen M. Snare	Corporate	New York
Paul D. Tanaka	Environmental	San Francisco
Bradley H. Weidenhammer	Litigation	Chicago
Jason Michael Wejnert	Intellectual Property	Chicago
Joshua J. Westerholm	Investment Management	Chicago
Jon-Micheal A. Wheat	Corporate	Chicago
Candace E. Wilhelm	Corporate	San Francisco
Beth A. Williams	Litigation	Washington, D.C.
Michael A. Woods	Energy	Washington, D.C.
John R. Worth	Litigation	Chicago
Ariel Yehezkel	Corporate	New York

Kirkland & Ellis International LLP*

Name	Practice Area	Office
Ross J. Allardice	Corporate	London
Michel Debolt	Corporate	London
James Delesclefs	Corporate	London
Anna Fallowfield	Tax	London
Harkiran Hothi	Litigation	London
Claire McDaid	Corporate	London
Elaine Nolan	Restructuring	London
Daniel Oates	Corporate	London
Jan Schinköth	Corporate	Munich
Chiraag Shah	Litigation	London
Martin Ströhmann	Restructuring	Munich
Dominik Stühler	Corporate	Munich

* All Partners of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP in Hong Kong and London who are not solicitors have to be registered with the Law Society of England & Wales, and those in Munich have to be registered as Exempt European Lawyers before they are allowed to become partners.

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