Kirkland & Ellis

Lawyers 3,500
Turnover Not disclosed
Offices 19

Kirkland’s corporate and mergers and acquisitions practice maintains its position at the forefront of high-profile transactions, including advising the billionaire Issa brothers’ Asda Group, investment funds managed by TDR Capital and Walmart on the acquisition of EG Group’s UK and Ireland operations for £2.27 billion.

Its debt finance practice acts on more sponsor financings than any other team in Europe, advising clients on complex leveraged financings including Advent International and Lanxess on the financing for the €3.7 billion acquisition of the Engineering Materials business from DSM and combination with the High-Performance Materials business from Lanxess.

Kirkland’s intellectual property litigation practice acts on influential patent litigation cases in London, representing life sciences and technology clients on cutting-edge cases including Lenovo on its successful global royalty dispute with InterDigital, now on appeal to the Court of Appeal.