Our Bay Area office includes nearly 200 attorneys in San Francisco and
Palo Alto, offering full-service capabilities in private equity and strategic M&A, investment funds, debt finance and tax, intellectual property and commercial litigation matters. Our Bay Area transactional lawyers are an integral part of Kirkland's premier, global private equity platform, and are particularly dominant in middle market transactions. Our litigators have national reputations for handling high-stakes commercial and IP litigation for technology and pharmaceutical giants, as well as many other significant public and private companies. Since opening in San Francisco in 2003, we are proud to have supported local legal, business, civic and educational institutions and performed pro bono legal work in and around the Bay Area.